Disasters create many challenges for community’s. This is why the United States government decided to create the National Incident Management System. The National Incident Management System is made up of multiple component systems, that are intended for use by all levels of government in disaster situations. Of these components, the Incident Command System offers the most advantages to an emergency manager in the event of a disaster. The Incident Management System helps emergency personnel deal with the many problems that can be created by the disaster.
In major disaster situations many different agencies, from every level of government, have to work together. During these disaster situations, certain things must be established, such as: …show more content…
There needs to be a specific plan for each disaster. Each plan will address the needs created by the disaster. In the Incident Command System there is a Planning Section which “collects, evaluates, and disseminates incident situation information and intelligence to the Incident Commander or Unified Commander and incident management personnel, prepares status reports, displays situation information, maintains status of resources assigned to the incident, and develops and documents them” (Homeland Security, 2004, p. 20). This Planning Section gives the Incident Commander, of the disaster, the best course of action, for the situation at …show more content…
This can be kept track of with the Incident Command System since it uses certain principles in order to keep overall accountability of the responders. These principles are: requiring all responders to report in to receive assignments; following the outline of the Incident Action Plans; one supervisor for a certain number of individuals involved, responders being expected to be accountable for their actions, supervisors adequately supervising, managing, controlling, and communicating with their subordinates; and supervisors resource tracking (Kestrel Management, 2013). Accountability is important in any job, but becomes even more important in a disaster situation. First responders and management need to be held accountable for their actions in order to make sure that the situation is being handle
In major disaster situations many different agencies, from every level of government, have to work together. During these disaster situations, certain things must be established, such as: …show more content…
There needs to be a specific plan for each disaster. Each plan will address the needs created by the disaster. In the Incident Command System there is a Planning Section which “collects, evaluates, and disseminates incident situation information and intelligence to the Incident Commander or Unified Commander and incident management personnel, prepares status reports, displays situation information, maintains status of resources assigned to the incident, and develops and documents them” (Homeland Security, 2004, p. 20). This Planning Section gives the Incident Commander, of the disaster, the best course of action, for the situation at …show more content…
This can be kept track of with the Incident Command System since it uses certain principles in order to keep overall accountability of the responders. These principles are: requiring all responders to report in to receive assignments; following the outline of the Incident Action Plans; one supervisor for a certain number of individuals involved, responders being expected to be accountable for their actions, supervisors adequately supervising, managing, controlling, and communicating with their subordinates; and supervisors resource tracking (Kestrel Management, 2013). Accountability is important in any job, but becomes even more important in a disaster situation. First responders and management need to be held accountable for their actions in order to make sure that the situation is being handle