Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)-5, Management of
Domestic Incidents, directs the Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a National Incident Management
System (NIMS). Initially published in March 2004, and revised in
December 2008, the NIMS provides a consistent national approach for
Federal, State, tribal, and local governments, the private sector,
and nongovernmental organizations (NGO) to work together to prepare
for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate domestic incidents,
regardless of cause, size, or complexity. HSPD-5 directs Federal
agencies to adopt NIMS and encourages adoption of NIMS by all other
stakeholders-State, tribal, and local governments; private sector
organizations; critical infrastructure owners and operators; and
NGOs involved in emergency management. In addition, the adoption
and implementation of NIMS by State, tribal, and local
organizations is a condition for receiving Federal preparedness
assistance through grants, contracts, and other activities, as
stated in HSPD-5. Based upon emergency management and incident
response practices, NIMS represents a core set of doctrine,
concepts, principles, terminology, and organizational processes
that enables effective, efficient, and collaborative incident
management. The institutionalization of these elements nationwide
through training helps to mitigate risk by achieving greater
preparedness. Incident after-action reports and NIMS both emphasize
that successful implementation relies upon development and
maintenance of a national NIMS training program. Furthermore, NIMS
implementation relies upon comprehensive NIMS training and
standardized personnel qualification. The primary goal of this
guidance is to facilitate training and qualification of emergency
management personnel to all NIMS concepts and principles. The NIMS
Training Program identifies a deliberate method to develop and
maintain a complete NIMS core curriculum and, concurrently, to
provide training guidance to stakeholders for developing their
training plans. To meet this goal, the NIMS Training Program has
the following three objectives: 1. Support NIMS education and
training for all emergency management personnel; 2. Adapt the
functional capabilities defined by NIMS into guidelines, courses,
and a curriculum that help stakeholders to develop personnel
training and credentialing plans that yield the desired
capabilities; 3. Define the minimum personnel qualifications
required for service on complex multijurisdictional incidents
nationwide. The NIMS Training Program lays out a conceptual
framework that maintains a systematic process for the development
of training courses and personnel qualifications. This process
produces trained and qualified emergency management personnel. The
framework facilitates the systematic development of these courses
and qualifications by translating functional capabilities (defined
in NIMS) into positions, core competencies, training, and personnel
qualifications. The NIMS Training Program sets a sequence of goals,
objectives, and action items for the NIC, which administers NIMS
training nationally, and for stakeholders, who run their respective
NIMS training and education programs.
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