One of the most positive developments in emergency response in recent years has been the national use of NIMS ICS. ICS has gained acceptance in public safety, private sector, and non-emergency event planning and has been applied to incidents and events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the Olympic Games, to …
In the relatively static and well-defined operational conditions of a wide variety of manufacturing facilities, a broadly-trained Stop Work program can be one of many health and safety policies and procedures. Generally speaking, the Stop Work is applied when the following conditions exist: Conditions or the work plan changes You …
Just in Time Training (JIT) is a term used to refer to training that takes place on an incident in which students are actual responders. The purpose of this type of training is to improve an individual’s performance, understand how their position interacts with other members of the team, and …
During the initial response phase of the Deepwater Horizon MC252 Incident, the US Coast Guard used a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to request EMSI’s support for the largest spill response effort in our nation’s history. Initially, we were tasked to provide 3 Incident Commander qualified staff for ICS coaching to …
The scale and magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is unprecedented, causing organizational decisions in the use of the Incident Command System to focus a large part of tactical response at the Branch Level. During the height of this response, eighteen geographic branches divided under two Incident Command Posts …
The Operations Section is the focal point of the management of an incident so the importance of developing and maintaining an effective and efficient Operations Section organization cannot be overstated. Unfortunately, incident organizing is a skill that many existing or up-and-coming Operations Section Chiefs and Deputy Operations Section Chiefs need …
Within the Incident Command System (ICS), there are many terms commonly used by incident and event management professionals. These terms allow responders from a variety of agencies or disciplines to join together using a common response language. “Command’s Direction” is one of those terms. It generally means the collection of …
