After a four-year hiatus, EMSI is excited to re-launch our blog and newsletter. These tools previously allowed EMSI to communicate with our clients, partners, and the broader emergency management community, and were an effective means to share best practices and new developments from EMSI. As the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the …
EMSI will participate in the Clean Gulf Conference October 29-30 in New Orleans, LA and Vice President of Operations Billy Haley will speak about the Critical Role of the Resources Unit Leader as part of session 6G: Training and Developing Key IMT Members. IMT success is dependent upon not only …
As the response spectrum has grown increasingly complex, leaders in the response spectrum today are required to engage with, influence, and lead a greater number of followers, peers, supervisors, and stakeholders to accomplish objectives, reach the end-state, and achieve a position outcome. In this regard, to adapt the quote from …
Five years ago, I traveled to Japan as part of the U.S. Government’s response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. With March marking the five year anniversary of Fukushima, this article attempts to highlight some incident management lessons learned and considerations for nuclear and radiological incident management. This month marks …
A well-known and important tool, the Operational Planning Worksheet (ICS-215) is used by the Operations Section Chief in preparing for the next Operational Period; a less well known, but equally important tool, is the Work Analysis Matrix (ICS-234). Looking at an ICS Operational Planning “P”, your work on the ICS-215 …
Happy New Year from EMSI! As we transition into the New Year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on 2015 and highlight some things to come in 2016. First, 2015 was a great year for EMSI. Not only did we celebrate our 15 year anniversary but we launched …
A radiological release from a nuclear power plant presents a challenging scenario for government and private industry responders. During the week of July 20 EMSI helped responders prepare for that very scenario by providing support to Southern Exposure 2015, the largest nuclear power plant exercise in over 20 years. Southern …
