tailieunhanh - National Incident Management System

On February 28, 2003, the President issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 (HSPD–5), “Management of Domestic Incidents,” which directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and administer a National Incident Management System (NIMS). This system provides a consistent. | NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM December 2008 Homeland ẩgỹ Security Secretary . Department of Homeland Security Washington DC 20528 December 18 2008 Dear NIMS Stakeholders Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD -5 Management of Domestic Incidents directed the development and administration of the National Incident Management System NIMS . Originally issued on March 1 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security DHS NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template to enable Federal State 1 tribal and local2 governments nongovernmental organizations NGOs and the private sector to work together to prevent protect against respond to recover from and mitigate the effects of incidents regardless of cause size location or complexity. HSPD-5 also required DHS to establish a mechanism for ongoing coordination to provide strategic direction for and oversight of NIMS. The National Integration Center NIC s Incident Management Systems Integration Division IMSI formerly the NIMS Integration Center was established to support both routine maintenance and the continuous refinement of NIMS. Since 2006 the NIMS document has been revised to incorporate best practices and lessons learned from recent incidents. The NIMS revision also clarifies concepts and principles and refines processes and terminology throughout the document. A wide range of feedback was incorporated while maintaining the core concepts of NIMS and no major policy changes were made to the document during the revision. Below is a summary of changes to the NIMS document Eliminated redundancy Reorganized document to emphasize that NIMS is more than the Incident Command System ICS Clarified ICS concepts Increased emphasis on planning and added guidance on mutual aid Clarified roles of private sector NGOs and chief elected and appointed officials As defined in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 . 107-296 the term State means any State of the United States the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto .