Planning your trip the American Public Power Association (APPA) Conference in New Orleans next month? Make sure to stop by and visit EMSI at booth 604. The APPA is the voice of not-for-profit, community-owned utilities that power 2,000 towns and cities nationwide. The APPA advocates and advises on electricity policy, …
Continuing to introduce innovative and advanced Incident Command System (ICS) training courses and support tools, EMSI recently developed an ICS Advanced Planning Process course and is working to develop an ICS Planning Process Guide Book. This course greatly expands on operational planning concepts, to better prepare response personnel to develop …
Continuing in our quest to develop emergency responders of every level, EMSI is proud to announce the availability of our new Incident Management Handbook! Cultivating the best practices from our decades of response and training, EMSI is honored to offer our very own FREE Incident Management Handbook (IMH) to assist …
Continuing to lead from the front line of contemporary incident management, EMSI recently facilitated a unique workshop for Command & General Staff members from the National Capital Region (NCR) Incident Management Team (IMT). Recognizing that the NCR IMT brings a wealth of experience and qualifications, EMSI worked with the NCR …
You’ve asked for it and we’re developing it! Cultivating the best practices from our decades of response and training, EMSI is nearing completion of our very own FREE Incident Management Handbook (IMH)! Yes, we said FREE! While it is important that all responders come into an incident with sufficient training …
Recognizing a critical ICS training shortfall, EMSI developed the ICS-220 Initial Response Team course, an advanced ICS training course greatly expanding on initial response management concepts, to better prepare response personnel for managing the often chaotic and dynamic initial stages of the response, with additional focus on a prolonged posture …
Last month, EMSI delivered a customized leadership and decision-making training session to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. Created by EMSI instructor/practitioners with expertise in crisis and incident leadership, this training was provided to responders from the IAEA Incident and Emergency System (IES). With a purpose of …
While millions of people spent their Super Bowl Sunday glued to the action on the field at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN, hundreds of response and security personnel were focused on everything but the game. Through strong partnerships with federal, state, and local public safety agencies, the City of …
Elements of this article were originally published by DOE/NNSA. https://nnsa.energy.gov/blog/nnsa-conducts-first-disaster-response-drill-usaid Kicking off 2018, EMSI aided the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with their interagency partners at the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to conduct a field drill, called …
With 2018 off to a fast start, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on 2017 and share some of our activities and accomplishments. This past year was another busy year supporting our clients and it afforded us the opportunity to grow our team and expand the services we …
