Updates

FEMA's Incident Management Systems Division Releases Updated Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Job Titles

As part of our nation's efforts to strengthen catastrophic response capabilities in line with the National Incident Management System (NIMS), FEMA's National Integration Center (NIC) Incident Management Systems Division has released initial minimum criteria for personnel to be deployed using a national credentialing system.  For each job title, working groupsentified "requisite" and "recommended" baseline criteria for education, training, experience, physical/medical fitness, certification, and licensing.  These criteria are intended to complement and support existing credentialing systems. Where national standards do not exist under "requisite" criteria, "recommended" criteria are listed for current and/or future consideration. 

The following job titles have been developed by the working groups:
  • Animal Emergency Response Job Titles (PDF 52KB, TXT 16KB)
  • Public Works (PW) Job Titles (PDF 81KB, TXT 32KB)
    • Updated PW Job Titles (PDF 82KB, TXT 32KB)
  • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Job Titles (PDF 258KB, TXT 52KB)  
  • Incident Management (IM) Job Titles (PDF 146KB, TXT 36KB)  
  • Fire/Hazardous Materials (FHM) Job Titles (PDF 208KB, TXT 40KB)
    • FHM Job Titles Proposed Update (PDF 258KB, TXT 56KB)
     
  • Search and Rescue (SAR) Job Titles (PDF 396KB, TXT 159KB)