Consistent with internationally recommended practices, Ontario has developed an Incident Management System (IMS) that provides standardized organizational structures, functions, processes and terminology for use at all levels of emergency response in Ontario. The development of an IMS for Ontario was the result of lessons learned from a series of significant events, such as the 2003 Blackout and SARS incidents. IMS addresses the need for coordinated responses to large-scale and complex incidents and has been developed with input from more than 30 emergency response organizations and stakeholders from Ontario.
