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UNIT 3: COMMUNICATING IN AN EMERGENCY<br />
NIMS (Continued)<br />
According to the NIMS Integration Center, “institutionalizing the use of ICS”<br />
means that government officials, incident managers, and emergency response<br />
organizations at all jurisdictional levels adopt the Incident Command System.<br />
Actions to institutionalizing ICS takes place at two levels—policy and<br />
organizational/operational.<br />
At the policy level, institutionalizing ICS means government officials:<br />
Adopt ICS through executive order, proclamation or legislation as the<br />
jurisdiction’s official incident response system.<br />
Direct that incident managers and response organizations in their<br />
jurisdictions train, exercise, and use ICS in their response operations.<br />
At the organizational/operational level, incident managers and emergency<br />
response organizations should:<br />
Integrate ICS into functional, system-wide emergency operations policies,<br />
plans, and procedures.<br />
Provide ICS training for responders, supervisors, and command-level<br />
officers.<br />
Conduct exercises for responders at all levels, including responders from all<br />
disciplines and jurisdictions.<br />
NIMS integrates existing best practices into a consistent, nationwide approach<br />
to domestic incident management that is applicable at all jurisdictional levels<br />
and across functional disciplines. Six major components make up the NIMS<br />
system approach:<br />
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