NIMS Compliance Product -- The NIMS Incident Action Plan Template Available for Immediate Use Globally -- New Book Provides All the Pertinent Tools That Users Need to be NIMS Compliant With Just a Little Input, Effort and Time

WATERFORD, Mich., June 1, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The NIMS Incident Action Plan Template outlines the U.S. DHS approved National Management System. This management tool can be benchmarked and used globally. It is largely based upon 4 standard levels of procedural documents.

Global users will focus on events that are not site specific, are geographically dispersed, or evolve over long periods of time which tend to require extraordinary coordination between federal, State, local, tribal, private sector, and government organizations. Throughout the text, users are provided a straight forward format in an effort to create a thorough yet accessible resource.

The template opens by defining certain Concepts and Principles regarding Command & Management, Incident Command (ICS) is both scalable and modular. Resource Management involves 4 primary tasks, establishing systems to describe, inventory, request and track response resources. It also covers dispatch, deactivation or re-calling resources during and immediately following an incident. After this section, the template provides space where users can record information relating to specific procedures in reports relating to communication, identification and authentication, food service, and even medical units. With all of this input applied, a liaison officer who would help maintain off incident interagency contacts and coordination in conjunction with others in similar capacities will prepare and disseminate the plan.

Yes, plan, and once you've input all pertinent information into this template, you, (XYZ) agency, will have your own "INCIDENT ACTION PLAN." An Incident Action Plan can be useful for anywhere from a few hours to 12 hours following most types of events. Each pre-planning or actual event will warrant the development of a new IAP. Maximum useful time frame can be up to 12 days followings any kind of event.

About the Author

Zoe Bennett is an LLIS Member, a verified Homeland Security Strategist and executive Director of a non-profit think tank, and a consultant. The author has devoted numerous years to researching and applying the solutions to appropriate end products to benefit mankind.

          NIMS Incident Action Plan Template * Zoe Allen Bennett
                       Publication Date: April 19, 2007
          Trade Paperback; $49.99; 113 pages; 978-1-4257-4967-5

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