The National Incident Management System, NIMS was introduced in March 2004, and is the country’s comprehensive approach to incident management. It outlines how first responders from different disciplines and jurisdictions can work together. The NIMS improves the coordination and cooperation between the public and private entities in different domestic incident management activities. It also creates a framework for compatibility and interoperability through balancing standardization and flexibility. As such, NIMS comes up with a flexible framework for the federal government to work together with private entities to manage domestic incident management activities.
Among the strengths of NIMS includes its applicability across a wide range of potential
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These operational periods allow NIMS to operate in a linear manner from the time of the event to its recovery. Therefore, NIMS focuses on the event and response efforts in an organized and chronological timeline.
One of the weaknesses of NIMS is the lack of incorporation of the private sectors in its efforts to respond to local incidents. It treats major incidents in a similar manner as local and minor incidents which leads to missing of key details. Further, it does not discuss what the first responders can do in large-scale events that they cannot function. Such means that the first responders are left in a dilemma of understanding the problem and solving it.
NIMS also shows a lack of a unified command based on international terrorism implications and jurisdiction. Moreover, it does not have training or exercises as a unified command or by utilizing the NIMS system. As such, NIMS suffers the weakness of proper communications channels or plain talk channel use. NIMS also lacks resources and funds to bring its agencies up to a
I think the National Incident Management System is a model to be adapted based on the circumstances. It is a good foundation that can be built upon and tailored to each department based on their specific needs and
In any major accident, it is important that everyone involved in the co-ordinated planned response liaise with all Health services, Traffic control, Police, Fire services, ambulance and hospital. The action at an accident starts as: assessing the situation, in the management of an incident one of the most important steps is evaluating the scene accurately.
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 directly relates to the National Incident Management System and the National Response Framework. In fact, it directly correlates with their missions. HSPD-5 was the directive that needed to start things in motion; NIMS and the NRF are the aftermath of the directive. With the formation of NIMS and soon after the NRF, America can operate successfully under one national manage...
The recovery process starts as the initial response effort slows down. Recovery actions are taken to help the public and city to return to normal everyday life. The recovery process requires a contribution from everyone. In the short term, recovery is an extension of the response phase in which basic services and functions are restored. In the long term, recovery is a restoration of both the personal lives of individuals and the livelihood of the community. (Homeland Security, 2008)
Since the writing of this case, the American Red Cross (ARC) is on record as having conceptually addressed its infrastructure and operational hurdles. However, very few strides have been made to reverse stakeholder perception crisis response time, relief dispatch strategies, and the ethical dilemmas plaguing the organization. Governmental mandates that streamlined the board and that established accounting /reporting parameters have done little to modify the organizations operational culture.
Although tragedies such as these usually leave citizens at a loss for words, these are the events that help organizations gain some perspective from a internal and external landscape for learning. Many organizations fail to interpret certain signals, or fail to analyze important information being communicated that is vital to their decision-making. Crisis management teams/planning should be required of every organization. It is important that all the departments learn how to communicate with one another also, because these guys did not reflect that, and the consequences were 13 fatalities. If they did have a crisis management team, strategy and plan, perhaps the outcome would have been different.
He puts forth the principle of “Do no harm,” and it is important to consult those who are in need first before any help is extended in a situation caused by social injustice rooted in unfair and unjust government practices, poorly managed institutions, weird and ineffective policies, and “serious problems […] of law and order.” Problems which he describes as “both intricate and intensely local .” When foreign aid policies miss to give attention to these problems, the assistance extended end up highly likely to be effective only for a very short-run, is unsustainable, and will only contribute to local frustrations and dependence on IFIs for the recipients of the aid which, in turn, impedes the intrinsic development of the
This act determines how each public service responds to different types of major incidences. To start with, the act defines an emergency as ‘an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the United Kingdom’. The act is then split into two parts; part one of the act requires category one responders to carry out risk assessments, planning, exercise for emergencies and undertaking business continuity management. Category one are also responsible for informing and warning members of the public about emergencies as well as providing business continuity advice for local businesses. Part one also places a legal obligation between the public services (category 1) and supporting responders (category 2) for increased co-operation and communication about the emergency. The second part of the act is known as Emergency Powers, this part of the act allows the making of temporary special legislation for the emergency services to help them deal with different levels of major incidents; the second part of the act is only used as last resort. Introducing this act has also increased the funding for emergency planning throughout the United
Local, State and Federal government have unique roles which would allow the flow of communication and resources to transition smoothly during each stage of progression. The local and state level (first responders) are the most important source as they can assess, coordinate and notify the next available resources of what is needed. State and local governments are the front runners of planning for and managing the consequences of a terrorist incident using available resources in the critical hours before Federal assistance can arrive (Managing the Emergency Consequences of Terrorist Incidents, July 2002). A Terrorist Incident Appendix (TIA) was designed to mirror an Emergency Operations Plan in relations to terrorist incidents. The TIA consists of six phases: Initiation, Concept Development, Plan Development, Plan Review Development of supporting plans, procedures and materials and Validation of plans using tabletop, functional, and full scale exercises. The TIA should be compared to those plans of existing Emergency Operation Plans (EOP) in place at the local and state level. Comparing plans before and incident allows time for comparison and revision of the various functions which will prevent disconnects to ensure coordination and
As profession of emergency management evolves, more needs to be done on a global and national scale in terms of policies, with strong sanctions, to deter one group to victimize another, with special emphasis on already vulnerable groups such as children, women, the elderly, physically challenged, hearing and visually imparted persons, the homeless and refugees or minority groups. Additionally more research needs to be done to understand why people of the same ethnicity, religion and social back ground would inflict such tyranny on its own people. We see it repeated with tribes in African such as the Hussies and Tutsis, North and South Korea,
Resource management is also crucial to any situation because without the proper resources to battle an incident, search and rescue attempts will fall to the waist side and more people could be injured or worst and the loss of property will be even more significant in the end. When the management of resources is employed correctly and carefully for that matter, it provides an avenue for careful management of resources before, during, and after an incident. NIMS describes standardized resource management practices such as typing, inventorying, organizing, and tracking as key elements which will allow for effective sharing and integration of crucial resources across multiple
FEMA accused ARC of not being consistent and making too many personnel l changes. ARC accused FEMA with failure to implement a comprehensive system to tract requests for assistance received from ARC (Thorne, 2014 p. 505). Large organizations like the American Red Cross have several ethical dilemmas they face, some unique, some foreign but the challenges have to be met with maintaining effective and efficient operations to respond to disaster and transparently reporting the organizations accomplishments, failures, and opportunity for improvement in disaster response activities (Thorne, 2014 p.
When adapting these, critical incident technique, it is mandatory to all staff or healthcare provider to report the incident via proper reporting system which available in the units. It is importance to each incident to be classified as more than one incident type example such as according degree of injury such as using score risk
Any single organization or group cannot solve hazardous materials response planning successfully. Rather it must be accomplished through the efforts of local, state, and Federal authorities and in cooperation with the private sector.