Key Terms
An oral or written plan containing general objectives reflecting the overall strategy for managing an incident.
Incident Action Plan
This organization is the top U.S. authority on emergency management.
Who is FEMA
The national planning frameworks include five separate frameworks. One being...
The National Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Disaster Recovery Framework
True or false: Desired outcomes must be assessed before capability requirements can be estimated.
True: Desired outcomes must be estimated for each mission area so that the capability requirements needed to meet those desired outcomes can then be estimated.
This is the concept of ensuring all incident management activities are objective-driven
What is management by objectives?
The process of identifying hazards and assessing the potential risk of each hazard by measuring the loss of life, personal injury, economic injury, property damage, and other harm and damages that may be caused by each hazard event.
Risk Assessment
This is an official FEMA document that explains the basics of planning, describes the various formats of an emergency operations plan (EOP), and standardizes each step in the planning process.
There are seven core capabilities in the NPF. One of which is...
Planning, public information and warning, operational coordination, forensics and attribution, intelligence and information sharing, interdiction and disruption, screening, search and detection
There are six components of the National Preparedness System. One of these components is
What is :
Identifying and assessing risk, estimating capability requirements, building and sustaining capabilities, planning to deliver capabilities, validating capabilities reviewing and updating
Using this allows different organizations to understand each other and communicate more effectively during emergencies.
What is common terminology?
The process of comparing actual performance with potential or desired performance.
Gap Analysis
A system instituted by FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide a universal standard for incident management. It includes the Incident Command System (ICS) and other operational systems used across the country to respond to incidents.
What is the National Incident Management System
The National Prevention Framework includes these three guiding principles:
Engaged Partnerships
Scalabiltiy, Flexibility, and Adaptability
Readiness to Act
The components of (this) provide a consistent, reliable approach to decision-making and resource allocation, as well as measuring progress toward those outcomes
National Preparedness System
Limiting the amount of subordinates reporting to a particular supervisor is known as this.
What is a manageable span of control?
An effective way to bundle and manage resources to deliver core capabilities.
Emergency Support Functions
This establishes FEMA's legal authority to manage disasters and deliver assistance to local, state, and tribal governments. It also outlines the Presidential Disaster Declaration process, which enables the president to declare states of emergency and to activate FEMA assistance.
The Stafford Act
A crucial element of the National Preparedness System, this includes compiling data about actual and potential threats and hazards and projecting their consequences and impacts.
What is Identifying and assessing risk?
A crucial element of the National Preparedness System, this includes compiling data about actual and potential threats and hazards and projecting their consequences and impacts.
Identifying and assessing risk
ICS operates through this type of system where information flows efficiently through Incident Command
What is a chain of command?
Establishes a common platform and forum for coordinating and addressing how the Nation manages risk through mitigation capabilities.
National Mitigation Framework
This establishes the laws, codes, and methods for managing each mission area of emergency management. It includes the National Preparedness Goal, which emergency managers can strive to achieve using guidance from the National Preparedness System and the National Planning Frameworks.
What is the Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8)
This core capability involves conducting a systematic process for developing executable strategic, operational and/or tactical approaches to meet defined objectives?
Planning
This involves measuring progress toward achieving the National Preparedness Goal.
What is validating capabilities
ICS is founded on management by objectives, which prioritizes incident response activities in the following order:
What is?
1. Life Safety
2. Incident Stabilization
3. Property Conservation