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 ...

Incident Command System Purdue University’s Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) uses a management system widely known as the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS provides an organizational ...

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 ...

The purpose of an Incident Action Plan (IAP) is to identify and mitigate any potential risks associated with the planning, implementation and successful completion of an event occurring on the ...

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 ...

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

One of the CSB's recommendations to FEMA following the explosion in West, Texas, was to fund training for fire departments on pre-incident planning for fires at facilities storing fertilizer grade ...

Michael Daley outlines the 15-point size-up to develop an incident action plan for technical rescue incidents. Today’s emergency responders find themselves reporting to a variety of incidents ...

Ruel Douvillier explains how Incident Action Plans helped responders expedite searches following major flooding.