Question

1. Explain the relationship between ICS and NIMS. Why ICS became the core aspect of NIMS?

2. What makes the U.S. Governments adopt NIMS as their guiding principle?

3. Why the Multnomah County Health Department (MCHD) staffs found the NIMS useful in managing communicable diseases?

Answer 1

SOLUTION:-

* NIMS facilitates the training to disaster response employees for using the ICS.

* ICS facilitates the standardized guideline that can be used by the different agencies to coordinate the command in the case of any disaster event.

* When there is some type of disaster, NIMS will have a close interaction with the different agencies responding to the situation being part of the ICS command chain.

* ICS is an important part of NIMS as it facilitates the proper and well defined chain of command and interaction guidelines mong the different agencies during the event of the disaster.

* NOMS was adopted by the government as it facilitates the consistent and countrywide guidelines and methods that ensure that the different level of the government and the private sector along with the NGOs are working in coordinated efforts for prevention response and to recover from the different types of incidents and to overcome the effect of these events.

* Multnomah County Health Department (MCHD) staffs found the NIMS useful in managing communicable diseases as it ensure that there a proper chain of command and the proper coordination among the different agencies, NGOs, private and public sector units so that their coordinated efforts can be sued to mitigate the negative effect of communicable disease and preventing its spread.