Answer To: FEMA's IS-700.B Certificate Course This unit's Assignment is the taking and successful completion of...
Shalini answered on Oct 12 2021
Running Head: NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 1
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NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
NIMS provides a consistent nationwide framework and approaches to enable the government at all level (State, Federal, Tribal and Local), the private sector and the non-governmental organizations to collectively work together in order to prepare for , preventing and mitigating the effects of incidents irrespective of their cause, location, size and complexity.
Federal Departments and Agency System
It is relatively mandatory for all the federal governments and agencies to adopt the NIMS and effectively use it in their individual incident management programs and activities. And they should also look forward towards the implementation of NIMS on tribal, state and local government.
State, Territorial, Tribal and Local government
The HSPD-5 requires the adoption of NIMS by the state, territorial, tribal and local government for the assistance of federal preparedness through the contracts, grants and other activities. In the wide range of incidents state, territorial, tribal and local government mutual aid, resources and assistance agreements take the account of first line of incident response, management and coordination. NIMS follow the concept that the local jurisdiction retains command, control and authority over the response activities of their respective jurisdictional areas (Kohn, Barnett, Galastri, Semon & Links, 2010).
Private Sector and NGOs
The private sector organizations and the NGOs plays a vital role in making the communities prepare for, recover from and respond to the various incidents that occurs in the society. All of the groups and the entities actively involved in the response operation activity are very responsible towards getting their response personnel the proper training.
The five level of operation in the implementation of NIMS are preparedness, communications and information...