NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS)
IS YOUR COMMUNITY OR BUSINESS PREPARED TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO THE NEXT CATASTROPHIC NATURAL DISASTER, INDUSTRIAL INCIDENT OR TERRORIST EVENT? U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS) BASED TRAINING IS NOW AVAILABLE AND BEING PERFORMED BY ALL AMERICAN’S HAZMAT TRAINING, INFORMATION AND SERVICES DIVISION NATIONWIDE.
On February 28, 2003 Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 5, Management of Domestic Incidents, authorized the development and implementation of a single comprehensive approach to emergency incident management. The system is intended to be the national standard and applied to the preparation for, response to and recovery from large scale catastrophic disasters. On March 1, 2004 the Department of Homeland Security released NIMS as designed to achieve the mandate of HSPD 5 and provide public and private sector organizations involved in disaster management planning and implementation with the organizational platform and the operational policies and protocols for consistent application to the management of critical emergency events regardless of their cause, size or complexity. NIMS is the national standard.
A key component of NIMS essential to its effective implementation within the context of local conditions and needs, is the training of federal, state, and local government employees, as well as industry and NGO personnel charged with the responsibility for managing major events. This training focuses on the application of the principles of NIMS to critical incident management issues such as: incident command, multi-agency coordination, resource management and communications and information protocols, etc.
Given the importance of NIMS to national security, All American’s HAZMAT Training, Information and Services Division, building on its extensive Incident Command training curricula and the field experience of it people, has developed a proprietary Emergency Response and Disaster Management Training Program focusing on the needs of government and industry organizations seeking to develop and implement Emergency Action/Management Plans based on the principles of NIMS. This program has been developed on a modular basis adaptable to the needs of local emergency responders and incident managers and is conducted over 80-160 hours depending on local  conditions. The Program also covers the interrelationship between NIMS and other “standards” such as: NFPA 15, Emergency Services Incident Management System, OSHA 29CFR1910.120(q)(6)(v), On-Scene Incident Commander and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group ICS National Training Curriculum.
An 80-hour version of the Program was conducted for thirty senior command level officers of the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department at the National Training Academy
in Kuala Kubu Bharu, Malaysia during June 5-16, 2006. This training was part of the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department’s continuing readiness upgrade program for personnel who manage the responses to and management of incidents in their disaster prone part of the world, such as: earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and potential urban incidents in the metroplex around Kuala Lumpur and the suburban government center at Putrajaya. The Emergency Response and Disaster Management program is available for delivery at the All American School of Occupational Safety and Health in Columbia, Maryland, or at client locations nation-wide by request. Please call Ed Conaway at (800)777-8474 or aaesi@verizon.net for additional information.
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