Managers:  Individuals within ICS organizational units that are assigned specific managerial responsibilities, e.g., Staging Area Manager or Camp Manager.

Management by Objectives:  A management approach that involves a five-step process for achieving the incident goal. The Management by Objectives approach includes the following: establishing overarching incident objectives; developing strategies based on overarching incident objectives; developing and issuing assignments, plans, procedures, and protocols; establishing specific, measurable tactics or tasks for various incident-management functional activities and directing efforts to attain them, in support of defined strategies; and documenting results to measure performance and facilitate corrective action.

Manager: Individual(s) within the Incident Command System organizational unit that are assigned specific managerial responsibilities (e.g. Staging Area Manager or Camp Manager).

Medical Unit:  Unit within the Service Branch of the Logistics Section responsible for the development of the Medical Emergency Plan, and for providing emergency medical treatment for incident personnel.

Medical Unit Leader (MEDL): The person responsible for developing the Medical Plan, obtaining medical aid and transportation for injured or ill incident personnel, and preparing reports and records.

Message Centre:  The Message Centre is part of the Incident Communications Centre and is co-located or shared or placed adjacent to it. It receives, records, and routes information about resources reporting to the incident, resource status, and administrative and tactical traffic.

Metrics: Measurable standards that are useful in describing a resource's capability.

Ministry Emergency Operations Centre (MEOC):  The Ministry Emergency Operations Centre is the provincial coordination centre for ministry's resources.

Mitigation: Sustained actions taken to eliminate or reduce risks and impacts posed by hazards well before an emergency or disaster occurs; mitigation activities may be included as part of prevention. 

Mobilization:  The process and procedures used by all agencies and organizations activating, assembling, and transporting all resources that have been requested to respond to or support an incident.

Mobilization Centre:  Off-incident locations at which emergency service personnel and equipment are temporarily located pending transfer to the site.  This is not a staging area.

Multi-Agency Incident:  An incident where one or more agencies assist a jurisdictional agency or agencies.  May be single or unified command.

Multi-jurisdictional Incident:  An incident requiring action from multiple agencies that have statutory responsibility for incident mitigation. In ICS these incidents should be managed under Unified Command.

Mutual Aid Agreement:  Written agreement between agencies and/or jurisdictions in which they agree to assist one another upon request, by furnishing resources.