NIMS - Core Competencies

[sardak]

The next step in NIMS development.  Note that although these were prepared by fire agenices, they apply to all NIMS disciplines, i.e. "all-hazard" or "all-risk."

The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), working on behalf of the NIMS Integration Center, have identified and compiled the all-hazard core competencies for each ICS position identified in the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and in the NWCG Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide (PMS 310-1, April 2006).

Comments are welcome until March 25.

http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/ics_competencies.shtm

Mike

[RiverAux]

I looked at a few and am not very impressed with them.  They could easily just be incorporated as part of the training standards. 

[DNall]

well that's what they are is a supplement to the training standards that gives practical understanding to why the varrious standards are there. I think it's a good document, even if it is directed at wildland fire response & not everyone else. In a major disaster it's a better than even chance the AOBD is coming from that community anyway.

[RiverAux]

The problem is that they are so vague as to be useless. 

[DNall]

It's not useless, it's just not a job description & certianly not a training guide, it's not suppsoed to be. It is a just a list of the key central things people in those specialties probably should be expert in. It's interesting information if you keep in mind it was written for wildland fire specialists, and that it isn't supposed to be anything it's not.

[sardak]

I haven't read all 62 of them, but not a single one I have read is specific to the position.  They are "motherhood" statements listing the generic tasks a person performs at a certain level of responsibility.  The documents could be easily combined into a half dozen or so, for each level of responsibility.

Although the position titles originated in wildland fire, and is where they are most commonly found, they apply to any all-risk incident management team.

Just another project to spend NIMS money.

Mike

[ZigZag911]

The material is more than a little vague and general....difficult to standardize or quantify, as well.