Question

Scenario: You are an American Red Cross Disaster Program Specialist in charge of teams trained to help in sheltering displaced persons. You have been notified by your office to be prepared to deploy to conduct shelter operations. Your supervisor has asked you to come to the office to begin organizing volunteers and get prepared to set up shelters, if tasked. You check in before you begin. What NIMS Management Characteristic are you supporting?A. Modular Organization.B. Incident Action Planning.C. Establishment and Transfer of Command.D. Accountability.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Accountability

Explanation:

Following the NIMS management characteristics, as an American red cross my activity of checking in follows accountability. Accountability involves check in and out, planning of incident action, command unity, personal responsibility, span of control and resource tracking. Check in and check out involves responders reporting to assigned work appropriately.

Planning incident actions follows the the responders should follow stated plan.

Personal responsibility talks about the actions of the responder.

In command unity, all workers/responders are required to report to one boss or supervisor.

Span of control and resource tracking deals with the number of supervisors or leaders and the allocation and utilization of resources respectively.