NFPA 1026-2014 Standard for Incident Management Personnel Professional Qualifications (Effective Date 6 17 2013).pdf

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29、ard forIncident Management Personnel Professional Qualifications2014 EditionThis edition of NFPA1026, Standard for Incident Management Personnel Professional Qualifica-tions, was prepared by the Technical Committee on Incident Management Personnel Profes-sional Qualifications and released by the Tec

30、hnical Correlating Committee on ProfessionalQualifications. It was issued by the Standards Council on May 28, 2013, with an effective dateof June 17, 2013, and supersedes all previous editions.This edition of NFPA 1026 was approved as an American National Standard on June 17,2013.Origin and Developm

31、ent of NFPA 1026In 1972, the Joint Council of National Fire Service Organizations (JCNFSO) created theNationalProfessionalQualificationsBoard(NPQB)fortheFireServicetofacilitatethedevel-opmentofnationallyapplicableperformancestandardsforuniformedfireservicepersonnel.On December 14, 1972, the Board es

32、tablished four technical committees to develop thosestandards using the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards-making system.The initial committees addressed the following career areas: fire fighter, fire officer, fireservice instructor, and fire inspector and investigator.The origina

33、l concept of the professional qualification standards, as directed by theJCNFSO and the NPQB, was to develop an interrelated set of performance standardsspecifically for the fire service. The various levels of achievement in the standards were tobuild upon each other within a strictly defined career

34、 ladder. In the late 1980s, revisionsof the standards recognized that the documents should stand upon their own merit interms of job performance requirements for a given field. Accordingly, the strict careerladder concept was abandoned, except for the progression from fire fighter to fire officer.Th

35、e later revisions, therefore, facilitated the use of the documents by other than theuniformed fire services.OnAugust 1, 2000, a letter was sent to the NFPAStandards Council from the National FireServiceIncidentManagementSystemConsortiumrequestingthattheyexplorethepossibilityof developing a professio

36、nal qualifications standard for fire service personnel assigned toperform specific roles within an incident management system. This information was for-warded to the Professional Qualifications Correlating Committee to submit a recommenda-tion on the request.The Technical Correlating Committee met i

37、n November 2001 with the representativefrom the National Fire Service Incident Management System Consortium to discuss the per-ceived need for the project.They established an Incident Management SystemTask Group tomeet in San Diego in February 2002 to solicit input on the need for and scope of a pro

38、ject.This task group reported that there was significant interest in achieving some form ofcredentialing or certifications on the part of the Federal Emergency Management Agencyand the International Association of Fire Chiefs. This report was sent to the NFPA StandardsCouncil. The Standards Council

39、approved this new project at their July 2003 meeting. Thescope of the 2009 edition of this document was to identify the minimum job performancerequirements for personnel performing roles within an all-hazard incident management sys-tem. It was the intent of the committee that individuals meeting thi

40、s standard for a specificposition would also meet the NIMS ICS Core Competencies for that position, and that indi-viduals meeting the NIMS ICS Core Competencies for a specific position would also meet therequirement of this standard for that position.10261NFPAand National Fire ProtectionAssociation

41、are registered trademarks of the National Fire ProtectionAssociation, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169.As a result of the technical committees work in 2009 and because there were no changes that occurred with any ofthe NIMS-specific positions, the technical committee has only made minor changes to editor

42、ial issues and referenceedition date changes in the 2014 edition. The technical committee did consider revisions to safety officer and publicinformation officer, but recognized that both of these positions are specific to incident management and not neces-sarily for local-level daily operations foun

43、d in NFPA1521 and NFPA1035, respectively.10262 INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS2014 EditionCorrelating Committee on Professional QualificationsWilliam E. Peterson, ChairPlano, TX MRep. International Fire Service TrainingAssociationDouglas P. Forsman, Champaign Fire Departmen

44、t, IL ERichard Galtieri, Washington State Fire Marshals Office,WAER. Kirk Hankins, Fire Consulting NFPA 1500, Standard on Fire DepartmentOccupational Safety and Health Program; and NFPA 1561, Stan-dard on Emergency Services Incident Management System.1.3.2* It shall not be required that the job perf

45、ormance require-ments be mastered in the order they appear. The authority hav-ing jurisdiction (AHJ) shall establish instructional priority andthe training program content to prepare individuals to meet thejob performance requirements of this standard.1.3.3*Performance of each requirement of this st

46、andard shallbe evaluated by individuals approved by theAHJ.1.3.4* The AHJ shall establish a specific qualification processthat identifies the steps to prepare a candidate for qualifica-tion at the level the candidate will be expected to performunder the auspices of that jurisdiction and to prepare t

47、he can-didate in a manner consistent and compatible with the Na-tional Incident Management System (NIMS).1.3.5* Prior to being certified at any incident managementposition contained in this standard, the candidate shall meetthegeneralknowledgeandskillrequirementsandthejobper-formance requirements of

48、 the pertinent chapter of this stan-dard at the typing level necessary to function safely at the kindand type(s) of incident or planned event at which the candi-date would operate.1.3.6* The job performance requirements in this standard areconsistent with the Incident Command System (ICS) CoreCompet

49、encies published as part of the NIMS.1.3.7 Wherever in this standard the terms rules, regulations,procedures, supplies, apparatus,andequipmentarereferredto,itisimplied that they are those of theAHJ.1.4 Units.1.4.1 In this standard, values for measurement shall be fol-lowed by an equivalent in SI units, but only the first statedvalue shall be regarded as the requirement.1.4.2 Equivalent values in SI units shall not be consideredas the requirement, as these values can be approximate. (SeeTable 1.4.2.)Chapter 2 Referenced Publications2.1 General. The documents or portions o