Anyone who has been through at least intermediate level ICS training (ICS-300) understands that one of Command’s many responsibilities is to establish the incident priorities and objectives and to communicate them to all responders. The two most common mechanisms for communicating these Command Directions are verbally during Operational Planning Cycle …
This February the EMSI team will be in Houston, TX to support various public safety and security operations. Working with the highly specialized Nuclear Emergency Support Teams (NEST) from the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), EMSI Emergency Management Specialist Ted Jakubowski will be deploying to Houston in the …
On January 22, EMSI will present a session at the Midyear Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS). Leveraging extensive knowledge in nuclear and radiological response, coupled with all-hazards incident management, EMSI subject matter experts will lead a presentation on nuclear and radiological incident management, highlighting the differences between health …
On December 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) conducted a Functional Exercise at the Department’s headquarters in Washington, DC, to test a Unified Coordination Structure (UCS) concept recently established under its Department-wide emergency management enterprise. The exercise scope involved personnel from multiple program offices implementing headquarters-level coordination for …
Happy New Year from EMSI! As we transition into the New Year we wanted to take a moment to reflect on 2016 and highlight some things to come in 2017.This past year was another great year for EMSI. In 2016, we continued to grow our relationships with our current clients …
EMSI is proud to announce that we were recently approved by the Clean Gulf Associates (CGA) as an accepted provider of Response Management Services under the Clean Gulf Associates Services (CGAS) Preferred Response Organization (PROs) program. CGAS created PRO as a network of highly professional oil spill response service providers …
During the week of October 17, Northern Lights 2016, a full-scale nuclear power plant exercise, was conducted at the Emergency Management Training Center at Camp Ripley, in Minnesota. The exercise was led by the Department of Energy (DOE) with support from the State of Minnesota, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), …
Continuing in its commitment to developing responders, EMSI President Ron Cantin recently organized and presented as part of a panel session at the Clean Gulf Conference in Tampa, FL. The session was titled: “Understanding Incident Complexity: Right Sizing the Response Organization”. This session examined the specific factors that drive incident …
EMSI is pleased to announce that we will be participating in the All-Hazards IMT Association (AHIMTA) Training and Education Symposium again this year. Held in Oklahoma City, OK, from December 5-8, EMSI’s Director of Operations Billy Haley will be participating in the vendor showcase. EMSI offers a diverse array of …
Adding to our resource quiver, EMSI is proud to announce that we’ve posted an Incident Command System position acronym job aid to our website. This listing of positions is intended to help incident responders by providing a consolidated catalog of acronyms related to the ICS positions. It is not a …
