Resources Handbook

The Handbook of Incident Management Terms, Acronyms & Abbreviations offers readers a wealth of knowledge essential to decreasing the number and severity of incidents impacting campuses and communities. This database is used to minimize reliance on limited lifeline resources and provide access to up-to-the-minute Incident Management terminology central to the provision of reasonable care. As a knowledgebase, the Handbook enables users to mature Mission Areas including: preparedness, prevention, intervention, mitigation, response, and recovery. Decision makers and action takers who use this Handbook are better equipped to collaborate with public sector responders and help their institution or organization reach its safety and security objectives.

First Edition available to CIMS platform subscribers.

Users of this guide have protocol at their fingertips to harden infrastructure across domains before emergencies and natural disasters occur. Administrators, subject matter experts (SMEs), Emergency Services personnel, and everyday stakeholders (those true first responders on scene before, during and after community responders) will find many free and low-cost solutions that enhance compliance, reduce liability, and counter pain and suffering.

➢ Information to protect people, the natural and built environment, assets and information -- including Critical Infrastructure and intellectual property (IP).

➢ Public Health guidance to increase Community Resilience.

➢ Vocabulary to understand the threat landscape and contain costs and losses.

➢ Finally, the missing incident management language absent from the security industry and emergency management nomenclature.

➢ A tool to promote civic responsibility and protect privacy, human and civil rights.

What platform users get: 580 pages of terms, 129 pages of acronyms and abbreviations, and links to many other glossaries from fields related to Incident Management.