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NIMS Resource Management Flashcards

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Resource Management Preparedness involves what four (4) key activities?

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  1. Identifying and typing resources.
  2. Qualifying, certifying, and credentialing personnel.
  3. Planning for resources.
  4. Acquiring, storing, and inventorying resources.
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What does typing resources mean?

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Defining and categorizing incident resources by capability.

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What does resource typing establish?

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Common definitions for capabilities of personnel, equipment, teams, supplies, and facilities.

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Typing definitions include what information?

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  • Capability
  • Category
  • Kind
  • Type

Detail:

  • Capability - The resource capability to perform its function in one or more of the five mission areas:
    1. Prevention
    2. protection
    3. Mitigation
    4. response
    5. Recovery
  • Category - The function for which a resource would be most useful (e.g. firefighting, law enforcement, health and medical).
  • Kind - A broad characterization, such as personnel, equipment, teams, and facilities.
  • Type - A resource’s level of capability to perform its function based on size, power, capacity (for equipment), or experience and qualifications; Type 1 has greater capacity that Type 2, Type 3, or Type 4.
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What is AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction)?

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Entity having the authority and responsibility for developing, implementing, and maintaining and overseeing the qualification process within its organization or jurisdiction.

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What are the essential steps to help ensure that personnel deploying under mutual aid agreements can perform their assigned roles?

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  • Qualifying
  • Certification
  • Credentialing

Detail:

  • Qualifying. Personnel must meet the minimum standards (including training, experience, physical and medical fitness) to fill specific positions.
  • Certification. Recognition from an Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) or a third party that an individual has completed qualification for a position.
  • Credentialing. Documentation (typically an identification card or badge) that identifies personelle and verifies their qualifications for a particular position.
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Coordinated Planning provides what?

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A foundation for interoperability and compatibility of resources.

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Jurisdictions and organizations work together before incidents to do what?

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Develop plans that identify, manage, estimate, allocate, order, deploy and demobilize resources.

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What resource management strategies should planners consider?

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  • Stockpiling resources.
  • Establishing mutual aid agreements to obtain resources to obtain resources from neighboring jurisdictions.
  • Determining how and where to reassign resources performing non-essential tasks.
  • Developing contracts to acquire resources from vendors.
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Accurate resource inventories do what?

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  • Enable organization to resource incidents promptly when needed.
  • Support day-to-day resource management.
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In NIMS, resource inventorying refers to what?

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Preparedness activities conducted outside of incident response; resource tracking occurs during an incident.

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What are the six (6) resource management tasks performed in an incident?

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  1. Identify requirements.
  2. Order and acquire.
  3. Mobilize.
  4. Track and support.
  5. Demobilize.
  6. Reimburse and restock.
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What does the Identify Requirements process identify?

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  • Type and quantity of resources needed.
  • Location where resources should be sent.
  • Who will receive and use the resources.
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Both Incident Command and Emergency Operation Center (EOC) staffs make initial and ongoing assessments of resource requirements based on incident priorities and objectives. True or False?

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True

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An external jurisdiction or organization that is requested to provide resources must consent to the request. True or False?

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True

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What is designed for use in ordering resources to ensure the resource meets the mission needs?

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NIMS Resource Typing

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When do personnel and other resource begin Mobilization?

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When notified through established channels.

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In Mobilization, deploying personnel receive what information?

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  • Date, time, and place of departure.
  • Mode of transportation to the incident.
  • Estimated date and time of arrival.
  • Reporting location and assigned supervisor.
  • Anticipated incident assignment.
  • Anticipated duration of deployment
  • Resource order number.
  • Incident number.
  • Applicable cost and funding codes.
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The mobilization of fixed facility resources is called what?

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Activation (rather than deployment).

20
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During incidents, responders sometimes arrive at the incident site without being requested. This can interfere with incident management how?

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  • Creating additional supervisory, logistical, and safety needs.
  • Depleting available resources.
  • Complicating resource tracking and accountability.
  • Interfering with access to the site by formally requested resources.
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The Track and Report process does what?

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  • Track the location of resources.
  • Helps staff to prepare to receive and use resources.
  • Protects the safety and security of personnel, equipment, teams, and facilities.
  • Enables resource coordination and movement.
22
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When do managers begin preparing for demobilization?

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At the same time they begin mobilizing resources.

23
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When should those responsible for resources in an incident either reassign or demobilize resources?

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As soon as they are no longer needed.

24
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What is the goal of demobilization?

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The orderly, safe, and efficient return of a resource to its original location and status.

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What are the Reimburse and Restock processes?

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  • Establish and maintain the readiness of resources.
  • Collect bills and validate costs.
  • Ensure the resource providers are paid in a timely manner.
  • Restock through replacement or repair of damaged equipment.
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What is Mutual Aid?

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The sharing of resources between jurisdictions or organizations.

27
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What do Mutual Aid Agreements do?

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Establish the legal basis for two or more entities to share resources.

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What is the Emergency management Assistance Compact (EMAC)?

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A congressionally-ratified mutual aid compact that define a non-Federal state-to-state systems for sharing resources across state lines during an emergency or disaster. Signatories include all 50 states.

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