Voice of Experience: Resource Management Words of Advice (Continued)

Ron Britton, Former NIMS Coordinator, FEMA, Region 10

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Ron Britton
Ron Britton, Former NIMS Coordinator, FEMA Region 10
"Resource management is much bigger than just identifying and moving vehicles or planes or so forth, that really, really involves the entire credentialing process of knowing all of our personnel resources capabilities and training background and so forth, that all needs to be done in a prior preparation event, so that we really know that when those folks arrive on scene, they’re capable of doing the job we’re asking them to do. So it starts with those folks, their credentialing, their qualifications, and then as well knowing the types of equipment that we would need to have on scene. So the equipment and the things that need to be there, and that would go under the communications as well because resource typing would involve the radios, the satellite phones, and all of the kinds of support communications that we would need for something to respond. So resource management is huge, and it really has to be done prior to the event."