Scenario: You are an American Red Cross Disaster Program Specialist in charge of teams trained to help in sheltering displaced persons. You have been notified by your office to be prepared to deploy to conduct shelter operations. Your supervisor has asked you to come to the office to begin organizing volunteers and get prepared to set up shelters, if tasked. You check in before you begin. What NIMS Management Characteristic are you supporting

The National Incident Management system controls major incidents and coordinates with the person to overcome such incidents based on some management characteristics. Accountability is one such characteristic where the check-in and check out are included.

Therefore, in the above situation, the Principle of Accountability is the management characteristic. According to the principle of Accountability, the manager is responsible to coordinate with the resources. It includes, checks in and check- out, personal responsibility, unity of command, etc.