National Preparedness And The National Emergency Management System (NRF)

1) Introduction

An emergency manager has fiduciary role and responsibilities for emergency situations and disasters. In their publication: Phillips, Neal, Webb highlight emergency managers as risk assessment expert evaluators and disaster preparedness communicators (Introduction to Emergency Management, P. 153). Risk is function of hazards, vulnerability, and consequences. The responsibilities of an emergency manager are succinctly stated: “----emergency managers can influence risk perceptions and promote greater levels of preparedness in their communities via effective communication (Faupel, Kelly, and Petec 1992; Meleti 1999; Tierney et al. 2001). Emergency managers are focused on the types of preparedness activities (Introduction to Emergency

In applicability of the National Preparedness System led to the development of the FEMA doctrines: The National Incident Management System (NIMS) and The National Response Framework (NRF) to explain and guide the Federal multi-intergovernmental agencies and the Whole Community (i.e., the Nation’s collective and cohesive emergency/disaster response and management approach) to ensuring and enhancing the mandated national preparedness (Introduction to Emergency Management, Box 5.1, Preparedness and the Whole Community, P. 142). Essentially, to satisfy compliance with the PPD-8, and achieve efficient and effective incidence response posture, the nation’s emergency managers prudently rely on the provisions of the NIMS and

The disaster on-scene activities apply all the components of NIMS—preparedness, communication and information management, resource management, and command and management—to support all response and recover activities. Thus, the NRF protocols and structures are layered, aligned with the NIMS. The NIMS, therefor, defines, guides the standard command and incident management structures and forms the basis for the US