Mar 26, 2024 · The National Qualification System (NQS) establishes and promotes baseline qualifications for a national incident workforce consisting of incident management, incident …

The overall goal of NQS in West Virginia is to enhance statewide preparedness by ensuring emergency management personnel are held to the same standards for training and …

This fact sheet does not replace any Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Qualification System (NQS) guidance. It supplements FEMA guidance with information …

The National Qualification System (NQS) provides an approach to qualify, certify, and credential incident management and support personnel to ensure that personnel deploying through …

• EMPG Program recipients (states) and subrecipients will be required to have NQS implemented for EMPG funded, deployable personnel (see all EMPG funded personnel).

Using NQS to certify and credential personnel allows an AHJ to share a common language of defined minimum capabilities with other entities. This common framework makes the sharing …

The NQS provides the tools for jurisdictions and organizations to implement their own qualification and certification processes to share resources more seamlessly with other jurisdictions and …

The State NQS Coordinator is the staf member at WVEMD responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the NQS program within West Virginia. If you have questions or …

NQS is intended to apply for in-state/tribal/territorial response, as well as state-to-state mutual aid. The state or jurisdiction chooses which and how many positions must be NQS qualified.

Sep 15, 2022 · The National Qualification System (NQS) is a foundational guideline on the qualification of personnel resources within the National Incident Management System. It …