Emergency Management #CIMS Flashcards
The components of emergency management are referred to as the ‘4Rs’. They are:
● risk reduction
● readiness (to respond)
● response, and
● recovery.
Common response objectives that provide guidance to responders are;
- preserve life (including ensuring responder safety)
- prevent escalation of the emergency
- maintain law and order
- care for the sick, injured, and dependant
- provide essential services
- preserve governance
- protect assets, including buildings and their contents
- protect natural and physical resources
- provide animal welfare, and
- preserve economic and social activity
CIMS structure is based on the following principles:
1) Common structures, roles, and responsibilities
2) Common terminology
3) Modular and scalable
4) Responsive to community needs
5) Integrated response coordination
6) Consolidated action planning
7) Integrated information management and communications
8) Resource Coordination
9) Designated response facilities
10) Manageable span of control
What should be adopted when a lead agency cannot be readily identified
Unified Control - When the control of an incident is shared between two or more agencies by agreement through a combined decision-making body.
What is a fundamental responsibility of lead agencies
Integration of support agencies into the response
What are the 7 functions of CIMS
Control Intelligence Planning Operations Logistics Public Information Management Welfare
What are the five CIMS response levels
National Regional Local Incident Community
Scaling Responses in CIMS (Expanded or Contracted)
A decision to scale a response should be based on?
- safety of the response personnel, the public, and property
- size and complexity of the incident, and the extent of response required, and
- span of control
In a single incident CIMS what would be the likely functions to merge
Planning and Intelligence
Operations and Welfare
When is an EOC activated
- When there are several incident level responses at different sites,
- When off-site coordination and support are required, or
- To coordinate multi-agency or multi-incident responses
What are the four types of Coordination Centre CC
- Incident Control Point (ICP)
- Emergency Operations Centres (EOCs)
- Emergency Coordination Centres (ECCs)
- National Coordination Centres (NCCs)
The IMT plan and manage changeovers, and need to ensure:
• outgoing personnel leave once they have briefed their replacements
• changeovers:
− increase personnel safety and reduce risk
− do not disturb response operations, and
− are staggered to ensure continuity of response operations.
CIMS Functions - Control is responsible for
Coordinating and controlling the response element
CIMS Functions - Intelligence is responsible for
The collection and analysis of response information, especially (but not limited to) that relating to the status, hazards and the context of the incident
CIMS Functions - Planning is responsible for
Planning is the function responsible for overseeing the development of Action Plans. Planning is also responsible for:
• developing long-term plans and contingency plans,
• assisting with planning the transition to recovery,
• convening and conducting planning meetings, and
• forecasting medium-to-long term resourcing requirements that will need to be provided by Logistics and supporting agencies.