Your Emergency Management Plan starts with understanding the potential threats, planning for an emergency and responding appropriately. Everyone needs to have a plan of action in order to be prepared ...

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) explains that an incident action plan (IAP) “formally documents incident goals, operational period objectives, and the response ...

FEMA has just released the National Planning System, a much anticipated document intended to provide a unified approach and common terminology to all-hazards planning. It’s a bit underwhelming.

FEMA has released Key Planning Factors and Considerations for Response to and Recovery from a Chemical Incident, written for response and recovery planners at the regional, state, local, tribal, and ...

Provide the Emergency Operations Center director with the control necessary to support all operations and all agencies responding to the incident. Normally, the incident commander will be the fire ...

Western Michigan University has a Critical Incident Response Planning Committee that meets monthly to discuss emergency planning. Based on an all-hazards approach, a comprehensive set of guidelines ...