NRSS 5 (Occurrence Management) refers to the Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS) as if it only applies to a specific incident site and does not take into account that, for a larger or more complex emergency response, the incident command centre could be somewhere
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else. NRSS 10 (Crisis Management), which is designed to work in parallel with NRSS 5, does not refer to the CIMS but refers to the civil defence model as being separate from the CIMS model, when instead it forms part of it.
The Commission recommends that the NZ Transport Agency oversee a review of NRSS 5 and NRSS 10 to ensure they are consistent and integrate efficiently with the CIMS used by emergency response agencies.
