This is the "What and How" behind the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District's Incident Command System (ICS), implemented soon after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The Incident Command System, as we know it today, started as most emergency management systems do: by necessity caused by a major disaster. In this case, the disaster was the worst series of fires ...

Incident Command System. Purdue University’s Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) uses a management system widely known as the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS provides an organizational ...

“The incident command system: High-reliability organizing for complex and volatile task environments.” Academy of Management Journal 44.6 (2001): 1281-1299. ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest.

Following the 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush in 2003 directed all federal agencies to use the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which also included the use of the ...

In long-term care, this system of command and control is known as the Nursing Home Incident Command System (NHICS)– Originally adapted from the Hospital Incident Command System or HICS, the ...

When police officers handle emergencies, they often work with state or federal responders within the National Incident Management System (NIMS). Because emergency response situations affect many ...

While NHICS was specifically designed for nursing homes, it is a version of ICS customized for SNFs that uses the same general concepts of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) as well as ...