Secret of NIMS

One of the simplest requirements to qualify for the federal grants is NIMS Compliance. Not only is the basic required class available online it’s also free. Your department has no excuses not to be 100% compliant.

National Incident Management System Compliance or NIMS is a comprehensive, national approach to incident management that is applicable to all jurisdictional levels across all functional disciplines.

NIMS provides a consistent nationwide framework and approach to enable government at all levels (Federal, State, tribal, and local), the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to work together to prepare for, prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents regardless of the incident’s cause, size, location, or complexity.

The intent of NIMS has two parts. 1) Be applicable across a full spectrum of potential incidents and hazard scenarios, regardless of size or complexity and 2) improved coordination and corporation between public and private entities in a variety of domestic incident management activities. It is highly recommended that departments follow current and future instructions issued by the NIMS Integration Center. You should be fully prepared in any grant application to discuss and relate your agency’s compliance with NIMS.

National Incident Management System, An Introduction – IS 700 is offered free of charge through the Emergency Management Institute

Really all members of agencies should have NIMS-700, NRP-800, and ICS 100. Additionally, someone within the agency should have ICS-200, 300 and 400.
http://www.fema.gov/txt/emergency/nims/nims_imp_act.txt