Emergency Managment forum responses

http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1597071/Hurricane-Sandy-Pollution-Response-Unified-Command-responds-to-environmental-threats

The incident command system is used to provide guidance on how to effectively organize assets to respond to an incident. The ICS uses a precise process to manage the response and relies of the use of successive stages and five functional areas. The areas include, Command, Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Administration/Finance. Unified Command is more of a team effort process. Unified Command is used to represent an important element in the effectiveness of multijurisdictional or multi-agency incidents (“Emergency Management and the ICS”). The Unified Command allows all agencies with geographical or functional obligation for an incident to appoint an incident commander to a Unified Command organization. It is established to maintain and uphold laws regarding territories and to avoid chaos between departments. There are four basic elements that are considered when establishing Unified Command in the Incident Command System; Policy Objectives and Strategy, Organization, Resources and also Operations. The article listed above discusses the unified command response to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Due to the large geographical area effected by the hurricane the Unified Command structure that was enacted was effective for this incident. The Coast Guard and several other agencies enacted the unified command in the incident command system to ensure that all waterways were safe and that refineries and vessels had been repaired and clean of all spills following the damaging storm.

References

Emergency Management and the Incident Command System. (2012, February 14). Retrieved July 27,

2016, from http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/mscc/

handbook/chapter1/Pages/emergencymanagement.aspx#1.3.2

HURRICANE SANDY POLLUTION RESPONSE UNIFIED COMMAND RESPONDS TO ENVIRONMENTAL

THREATS. (2012, November 5). Retrieved July 27, 2016, from

http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1597071/Hurricane-Sandy-Pollution-Response-

Unified-Command-responds-to-environmental-threats-CORRECTION