Tag: IMT

BP Brazil ICS Training and Drill

For the last two years, EMSI has been working steadily with BP Brazil to prepare their Incident Management Team (IMT) for effective and efficient response to a simulated or actual incident. In September, 2013, the training’s benefits were finally brought to fruition when the government of Brazil required BP to …

The ICS Term “Command’s Direction”, What does it mean?

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 …