

There are many ways for you to receive that training, such as online courses, traditional classroom instruction, distance learning, or a combination of one or more of these. Understand how you fit into an incident response. Part of an emergency response to small incidents, such as traffic accidents, or local floods or a tornado or large scale incidents, such as a major hurricane that may have included support from the Federal government.ĭid you know that there are two Federal documents that provide the framework for emergency response activities and describe how Federal, State, tribal and local governments will work together when responding to large and small incidents? Becauseįederal, State, tribal, and local government agencies are adopting the principles and concepts of incident management contained in the National Response Framework (NRF) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS), it is important for you to The NIMS recognizes the role that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector have in preparedness and activities to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate theĪs a frontline transportation worker you may have had one or more opportunities to be (through grants, contracts, and other activities). The directive requires Federal departments and agencies to make adoption of NIMS by State, tribal, and local organizations a condition for Federal preparedness assistance Support of all actions taken to assist State, tribal, and local governments.

Homeland Security Presidential Directive – 5 requires all Federal departments and agencies to adopt the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and to use it in their individual incident management programs and activities, as well as in Workbook can be substituted for those courses in order to meet State training requirements. Only the State Administrative Agency can make the determination as to whether this The contents are adequate for use in replacing the requirement for frontline transportation workers to take IS 100.a. Workbook contents have been coordinated with FEMA. Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration. State Departments of Transportation and other agencies contributing to the pooled fund were California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Texas, Wisconsin, and the U.S. in support of SAIC under Federal Highway Administration Transportation Pooled Fund Study 5(161), Transportation Security and Emergency Preparedness ProfessionalĬapacity Building (PCB) Pooled Fund Study. This workbook was researched and produced as a project by Excalibur Associates, Inc. Module 2: The National Incident Management System Module 1: The National Response Framework You can use the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDFs on this The National Incident Management System – A Workbook for State Department of Transportation Frontline Workersĭownload the Printable Version
