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NIMS ICS Site-Based Training
EMAC International’s NIMS Series is a flagship component of the Command Institute and is structured to provide comprehensive Incident Command Management, Emergency Management and Training services to the National Emergency Management Community. EMAC International’s NIMS Series provides comprehensive training, presentations and strategic consulting for incident command management. The NIMS series catalog of courses includes core subject areas that can also be modified and custom designed for agency specific training requirements, conferences or facilitated presentations.
EMAC International’s NIMS Series Training programs are unsurpassed in content, technical quality and instructional delivery excellence, integrating the most current provisions of the new NIMS system, or enhancing the elements of your agency’s existing ICS program. EMAC will work in close collaboration with your agency to develop and coordinate a training program that not only addresses local agency specific needs, but also integrates the expanding functional elements of NIMS and the nationally recognized Phoenix FGC, NFA and NFSIMSC Model Incident Management Systems.
The adoption of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) from Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-5) Management of Domestic Incidents, has found many agencies, organizations, municipalities, corporations & businesses unprepared to address strategic implementation, coordination and training issues affecting the federal directive. The NIMS Series provides exceptional resources for addressing the change management process and facilitating the defined needs in training and skills development.
The NIMS Series is designed for:
Fire
Department, Rescue, and EMS Services Agencies
Law
Enforcement Agencies
Homeland
Security and
Terrorism Preparedness
Agencies
Special
Operations, Technical
Response, HazMat,
WMD,
and
other Specialized Teams
Educational
and School Institutions
Hospital,
Medical, Research, and Health Care
Providers
Emergency
Management Departments and Agencies
Governmental
Agencies and Offices
Corporate,
Business, Commercial, Industrial and
Military
Facilities,
Complexes, Groups, and Agencies
EMAC International’s NIMS Series Training programs are available for classroom style presentations, conference or large audience settings, main conference program presentations and special strategic planning or facilitated sessions. EMAC International also provides informative executive session type program presentations to elected officials and political bodies to support agency presentations, strategic alignment and implementation models and training presentations for strategic roadmaps for coordinating and integrating NIMS into your local emergency response system.
To schedule or inquire about a
course, please contact us.
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NIMS ICS Resident-Based & OnlineTraining
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The NIMS recognizes the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Incident Command System (ICS) training as a model for course curricula and materials applicable to the NIMS: ICS-100,
Introduction to ICS |
National
Wildfire Coordinating Group |
December 22, 2004
NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS) TRAINING
from the NIMS Integration Center
The NIMS Integration Center is coordinating the development of a National Standard Curriculum for NIMS, which will be built around available federal training opportunities and course offerings that support NIMS implementation. The curriculum also will serve to clarify training that is necessary for NIMS compliance and streamline the training-approval process for courses recognized by the curriculum.
Initially, the curriculum will be made up of NIMS awareness training and training to support the Incident Command System (ICS). Eventually it will expand to include all NIMS training requirements including training established to meet national credentialing standards. Presently, this site only lists NIMS-related course offerings available through EMI, USFA and the Noble Training Center. However, the NIMS Integration Center will be meeting soon with all other DHS training providers to determine which of their existing courses can be included and featured as part of this curriculum. In the next year, we will reach out to all federal training providers to include their NIMS-related courses.
As you know, NIMS implementation is on a fast track. Minimum training requirements are listed in a memorandum from the DHS Secretary to Governors. It is important that these minimum requirement be met, while the comprehensive NIMS Curriculum is being developed.
The NIMS center recognizes that many operational aspects of the
NIMS, including ICS training are
available through, state, local and tribal training agencies and
private training vendors. It is not
necessary that the training requirements be met through a federal
source. We will be developing
and providing stakeholders with an evaluation checklist for training
content, which may be used to
ensure that the ICS training offered through vendors meets the standard "as
taught by DHS."
Information about NFA and EMI training is available at http://training.fema.gov/,
while information
concerning Noble Training Center courses can be found at http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/ntc.
For information about training offered at the state level see http://www.usfa.fema.gov/pocs/.
Questions concerning NIMS and related training issues may be directed
to NIMS-Integration-Center@dhs.gov.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers a broad range of training that addresses key elements of NIMS. Basic and advanced public affairs officer courses, for example, support NIMS incident communications provisions. The primary purpose of the Integrated Emergency Management curriculum is to teach multi-agency coordination. EMI also offers courses in preparedness and resource management. Both NIMS and the NRP are being incorporated into virtually every course offered.
EMI Incident Command System Curriculum
EMI's ICS curricula are evolving rapidly to both align with the NIMS and to include the new federal disaster worker audience. As this process continues, EMI will phase out certain ICS courses and replace them with courses that more accurately reflect NIMS guidance. ICS training is generally is offered at four course levels: ICS 100, ICS 200, ICS 300 and ICS 400.
New ICS courses include:
ICS 100-Introduction to ICS
ICS 200-Basic ICS
ICS 300-Intermediate ICS
ICS 400-Advanced ICS
The 100 and 200 level courses will be available in a Web-based independent study format and as classroom-delivered courses.
ICS Courses for State, Tribal and Local Governments
EMI plans Law Enforcement, Public Works, Public Health and generic ICS courses. These entry-level courses are suitable for persons working in an ICS environment. Each courses uses discipline-specific examples and exercises to teach the same ICS content. These materials will be posted on EMI's Virtual Campus as they are developed.
The 300 and 400 level courses are classroom based multi-discipline or multi-jurisdiction courses intended for persons with supervisory responsibilities, such as the incident commander or planning section chief.
ICS for Federal Disaster Workers
IS100 Introduction to ICS (I100) for Federal Disaster Workers This is a Web-based course, based on the National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS) training program, especially designed for employees of FEMA and other Federal departments and agencies who have disaster responsibilities.
IS200 Basic ICS (I200) for Federal Disaster Workers
The follow-on to IS100, this Web-based course provides more hands-on
training in ICS and is
designed for federal audiences.
ICS Courses Developed Pre-NIMS (To be phased out by December 2005)
G190-194 ICS Courses
These are four I100-200-level ICS courses especially designed for
Law Enforcement (G190),
Public Works (G191), Public Officials (G194), and ICS-Emergency Operations
Center interface
(G191). These courses remain available but are under revision to
create separate NIMS-based,
Web-based I100 and I200 level training for the various disciplines.
G195/196 ICS Intermediate/ICS Advanced Courses
These are two EMI field courses that are delivered by state trainers.
Currently they are under
revision and will become I300 and I400.
IS195 Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS)
This is an independent study course available on-line from EMI that
is designed to provide general
ICS awareness training for all audiences.
NIMS Training
IS700 NIMS: An Introduction
This is a Web-based awareness level course designed to explain NIMS
components, concepts and principles.
The classroom version of this course may be downloaded at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is700.asp.
Over 30,000 thousand individuals had already completed this course
as of December 2004.
IS800 The National Response Plan: An Introduction
This is a comprehensive, interactive Web-based introduction to the
new federal protocol for responding to
incidents of national significance.
Integrated Emergency Management Courses (IEMC)
Since 1983, the Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC) has
been the Federal
Emergency Management Agency's premier course addressing emergency
response activities. The "
integration" of community functions, resources, organizations
and individuals in all phases of
emergency management, is stressed throughout this exercise-based
training. The following are the
course objectives: analyze emergency plans, policies, and procedures;
identify additional planning
needs; clarify roles and responsibilities; improve teamwork and coordination;
and improve
response and recovery capabilities. All courses stress the incident
command system, multi-agency
coordination systems, and public information systems of NIMS. The
following is a list of both
resident and field IEMC programs:
E900/E901 - IEMC/All Hazards
E905/E906 - IEMC/Hurricane
E910/E911 - IEMC/Earthquake
E920 - IEMC/Hazardous Materials
E915 - IEMC/Homeland Security (Terrorism)
E916 - IEMC/Agriculture – Food (Terrorism)
E940 - IEMC/Special Event (National Conventions, Olympic Sites, Major
Sporting events, etc)
E930 - IEMC/Community Specific
B960 - IEMC/Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS)
E925 - IEMC/State Specific
E950 - Federal Agency Specific (DHS/FEMA, CDC, FDA, etc.)
B960 Healthcare Leadership Course
This four-day, exercise-based training course provides a realistic
setting in which expert instructors
assist healthcare professionals develop appropriate decisions in
response to a Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMD) event. It is conducted at the Noble Training Center
in Alabama. This course
stresses the incident command system, multi-agency coordination systems,
and public information
systems of NIMS for a healthcare audience.
Public Information Training
E388 Advanced Public Information Officers
This advanced course builds on the foundations established in the
Basic Public Information
Officers course (G290) by focusing on PIO responsibilities in large
-scale emergencies. Topics
include legal issues, risk communication, communication in emergencies
and use of the Joint
Information System.
G290 Basic Public Information Officers
This course is intended for the new or less-experienced PIO. It emphasizes
the basic skills and
knowledge needed for emergency management public information activities.
Topics include the
PIO's role, writing news releases and conducting television interviews.
Planning Courses
IS235 Emergency Planning
This course addresses basic planning elements such as hazard analysis,
the basic plan, annexes and
appendices.
G358 Evacuation and Re-entry Planning Course
This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills needed
to design and implement an
evacuation and re-entry plan for their jurisdictions.
G360 Hurricane Planning
This course assists persons responsible for developing or revising
emergency operations hurricane
plans and procedures.
G408 Homeland Security Planning for Local Governments
This course teaches participants to evaluate, revise or develop a
homeland security appendix to
their jurisdiction's existing emergency operations plan. It addresses
such key issues as
vulnerability analysis and command and management for homeland security
events.
NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY
The National Fire Academy (NFA) offers a broad range of training that addresses key elements of NIMS in an all-hazard format. The numerous command and control courses, for example, support provisions of the NIMS ICS. NFA also has courses that address incident-specific areas, including hazardous materials and terrorism emergency response and emergency medical services. NFA offers courses in preparedness planning, training and management as well as resident, field and self-study courses. Both NIMS and the NRP are being incorporated into virtually every course offered by the NFA.
NFA field courses are coordinated through state fire training agencies; a list of these can be accessed at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/pocs/. Train-the-Trainer courses are available through the state fire training agencies for all field courses. Web-based self-study courses, or "Q" courses, are available through the NETC Virtual Campus, also available at http://training.fema.gov/. NFA resident course application procedures may be obtained at http://training.fema.gov/, or specifically at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/training/nfa/about/attend/nfa-abt1c.shtm.
NFA's Incident Command System Courses
NFA's ICS courses have, for many years, taught FIRESCOPE ICS – the same ICS used in the NIMS. The courses are all being updated to more accurately reflect the nuances associated with the NIMS guidance and new courses are being added to address a broader "all-hazards" approach. NFA's "new" courses, to be made available in early 2005, include:
Introduction to ICS (I100)
This is a Web based, all-hazards ICS course especially designed for
all entities of the first
responder community with operational responsibilities during emergencies
and disasters.
Basic ICS: ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
(I200)
This course is designed to follow Introduction to ICS. It is a Web
based, all-hazards ICS course
especially designed for all entities of the first responder community
with operational
responsibilities during emergencies and disasters.
Intermediate ICS: ICS for Expanding Incidents and Supervisors (I300)
This is a follow-up to Basic ICS that combines Web-based and classroom-based
instruction. An all-hazards ICS course, it is designed for all
entities of the first responder community that have
operational responsibilities during emergencies and disasters.
Advanced ICS: ICS for Command and General Staff and Complex Incidents
(I400)
This course will be a follow-up to Intermediate ICS. It combines
Web-based and classroom-based
instruction and is an all-hazards ICS course especially designed
for all entities of the first responder
community with operational responsibilities during emergencies and
disasters.
F163 NIMS ICS for EMS
This is a two-day, instructor-led field course equivalent to I100
and I200, designed to introduce
students to the concepts of the incident command system as applied
in pre-hospital emergency
medical services.
F806 NIMS ICS for the Fire Service
This is a two-day, instructor-led field course equivalent to I100
and I200, designed to introduce students
to the concepts of the incident command system as applied in the
fire service.
All-Hazards ICS and Incident Management Team Courses
Q316 Introduction to Command and General Staff
This is a paper-based, self-study course designed for those emergency
services providers who may
assume command and general staff functions during a large/complex
incident. (This course is
being replaced by the Web-based I100 and I200 courses in early 2005).
O305 All-Hazards Incident Management Team
This is the training portion of a Technical Assistance program to
develop state and regional IMTs
to function under the NIMS during a large incident or a major event.
This course is designed for
those who are assigned to function in a Type 3 All-Hazards IMT during
a large/ complex incident,
typically extending into the second operational period.
R306 Executive Analysis of Fire Service Operations in Emergency
Management
R306 is a resident course designed to prepare fire, EMS and law enforcement
senior staff officers
in the ICS functions necessary to manage the operational components
of a large incident or disaster
in compliance with NIMS.
R308 Command and Control of Fire Department Operations at Natural
and Man-Made Disasters
This is a two-week resident course that addresses fire and rescue
operations at natural and human-caused disasters that may require
inter-agency or inter-jurisdictional coordination.
R317 Command and General Staff Functions in ICS
This is a six-day resident/regional delivery course to better prepare
emergency response personnel to
manage large, complex incidents effectively by using the functional
components of ICS under the
National Incident Management System (NIMS). It also is used in the
development of Type 4 and
Type 5 Incident Management Teams (IMTs).
F315 Introduction to Unified Command for Multi-Agency and Catastrophic
Incidents
This is a field course designed for fire, EMS and law enforcement
officers who would be likely to
assume an ICS command or general staff position during a multi-agency
operation. The goal is to
help them develop a better understanding of the complexities of multi-agency
incidents and the
skills necessary to operate in that environment in compliance with
the NIMS.
F719 Incident Safety Officer
This is a two-day field course that focuses on the role of the safety
officer within an ICS operation.
F322 ICS for Structural Collapse Incidents
This is a two-day field course designed to provide emergency service
officers with an
understanding of command operations at structural collapse incidents.
R831 Command and Control of Incident Operations
This is a six-day resident course designed to introduce volunteer
emergency service officers to ICS
applications during the initial phases of all types of emergency
incidents.
Fire-Specific ICS Courses
R304 Command and Control of Fire Department Operations at Multi-Alarm
Incidents
This is a two-week, simulation-intensive resident course focuses
on the command officer's
responsibilities while conducting major operation involving multi-alarm
incidents.
R825/R314 Command and Control of Fire Department Operations at Target
Hazards
This is a six-day resident course intended to introduce command officers
to the complexities of
commanding incidents in high-risk areas.
F321 Incident Command for High Rise Incidents
This is a two-day field course designed to assist responders who
may have to manage high-rise
emergency incidents.
F455 Strategy and Tactics for Initial Company Operations
This two-day field course is designed to help company officers develop
the management skills
needed to accomplish tactical assignments at emergency incidents.
F610 Introduction to Wildland/Urban Interface Firefighting for the
Structural Company Officer
This two-day course identifies operational and safety concerns for
structural company officers
assigned to wildland/urban interface incidents.
F612 Command and Control of Wildland/Urban Interface Operations
for Structural Chief Officer
This is a two-day course designed to provide the chief or company
officers who may have
command responsibility for multiple resources, with the essential
tools and skills to operate safely
in wildland/urban interface environments.
F827 Fire Protection Systems for Incident Commanders
This course integrates the importance of NIMS-based pre-incident
planning and incident command
with strategic and tactical uses of built-in fire protection systems.
Incident Command and Control Simulation Series
This is a series of self-contained CD-ROM, computer-based training
programs designed to provide
challenges to the newly appointed, inexperienced fire officer as
well as experienced fire officers.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Specific Courses
Q157 EMS Operations at Multi-Casualty Incidents
This is a four-hour, Web-based course that addresses preparedness
planning; management of the
incident; safe and efficient triage, treatment and transportation
of patients; and the de-escalation of
the response. It is not intended to provide detailed steps in the
care of patients.
R152 EMS Special Operations
This resident course is designed to enable EMS system managers to
prepare their organizations to
respond to events with large numbers of people, natural and man-made
disasters, dignitary visits, and other actual
or potential multiple casualty incidents using ICS for both preparation
and response and to integrate
into a multi-agency coordination system.
R149 EMS Management of Community Health Risks
This two-week course targets EMS providers, supervisors and program
managers who have the
responsibility for developing and implementing community health and
safety programs, including
injury prevention and fire prevention programs and public health
preparedness.
Hazardous Materials and Terrorism Emergency Response Courses
R229 Hazardous Materials Operating Site Practices
This is a two-week technician-level course built around a "risk-based" decision-making
model,
utilizing ICS to manage and coordinate hazardous materials incidents,
including those involving
CBRNE agents. The course focuses on team operational elements and
functional implementation,
and their relationship to ICS.
R243 Hazardous Materials Incident Management
This is a six-day resident course that focuses on the duties and
responsibilities of emergency
response personnel who may assume the incident commander role in
hazardous materials
emergencies after the initial response.
F552 Emergency Response to Terrorism: Tactical Considerations for
Company Officers
This is a two-day course for the initial first-responding supervisor
designed to build upon the
Emergency Response to Terrorism: Basic Concepts course. It covers
initial actions, building an ICS
organization, security considerations, anticipating unusual response
circumstances, assessing
information and initiating self-protection actions.
F555 Emergency Response to Terrorism: Strategic Concepts for Command
Officers
This is a two-day course designed for senior-level officers who may
be responsible for command of
incidents involving terrorism. The person in this position assists
the command officer in preparing
an effective response to the consequences of terrorism and in managing
the incident as part of a
multi-agency, multidiscipline and multi-jurisdictional response.
Planning/Training/Management Courses
R280 Leading Community Risk Reduction
This two-week course instills in the students the belief that community
risk reduction is an essential
tool in reducing and minimizing risk from all hazards in a community.
Subject areas include: all-hazards management, coalition building,
community changes, data analysis and application, legal
issues, and program evaluation. The community risk reduction process
involves all four phases of
emergency management: preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery.
R309 Strategic Analysis of Community Risk Reduction
This two-week resident course begins with an historical perspective
of fire prevention and then
leads the student into the concepts of community risk reduction.
The risks faced by a community
are catalogued and analyzed using a model of injury prevention and
preliminary strategies using
education, enforcement, and engineering solutions for reducing these
risks are presented to the
students and discussed.
R342 Training Program Management
This two-week course will enable the student to discuss and evaluate
many of today's issues facing
the training officer in a fire or emergency medical services organization.
The course addresses
many leadership aspects of training personnel, such as the complexities
of performing training need
assessments, how to deal with personnel involved in a training function,
and how to develop a
training budget for the organization.
R507 Partnering for Fire Defense and Emergency Services Planning
A resident course for senior fire executives and their community
partners with a systems approach
for the development of the appropriate annexes under their community's
Master Plan, part of the
Preparedness Planning identified in the National Incident Management
System (NIMS).
R802 Fire Service Planning Concepts for the 21st Century
This six-day course is offered in both field and on campus formats,
and focuses on community fire
defense master planning that targets fire protection needs in terms
of fire service readiness issues
and homeland security strategic goals and objectives. Fire officers
are encouraged to have a local
official or community planner attend this course with them.
R815 Challenges for Local Training Officers
This six-day course is designed to help students develop leadership
skills to serve as training officer
for a volunteer emergency services organization. Current training
issues will be discussed, and
students will learn to better plan, implement and evaluate their
training responsibilities.
R154/R822 Advanced Safety Operations and Management
This six-day course focuses on applying the risk management model
to health and safety aspects of
emergency services operations, including program management, day-to-day
operations, and
incident safety. Content areas include firefighter and emergency
services fatality and injury
problem; the risk management process; safety responsibilities of
department members; regulations,
standards, and policies affecting emergency services safety; and
appropriate documentation and
recordkeeping pertaining to firefighter and emergency services health
and safety.
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