ICS Training [b2ed4e54]

• Refers to number of individuals that one supervisor can manage effectively during an incidient

Entails:

• Resource identification
• Qualification and certification of personnel
• Planning for resources
• Acquiring, storing, and inventorying resources

• Command function should always be established at the beginning of an incident
• Transferring command during incidient should include a briefing that captures all essential information

• Act of directing, ordering, or controlling the incident response

  • ICS uses an incident commander, who has the authoirty to establish objectives, make assignments, and order resources

    • Always staffed in ICS applications

• Responsible for

  • Ensuring overall incident safety
  • Providing information services
  • Establishing and maintaining liasons
• May assign deputies that can fully take over the role
• Should be clearly established at the beginning of an incident
• Modular, IC should be able to assume other roles

• Depending on size, 3 additional roles may include

  • Public Information Officer

    • Interfaces with public/media and other agencies

  • Safety Officer

    • Monitors incident operations and advises the IC on all matters relatin g to safety

  • Liaison Officer

    • Serves at the incident commander's point of contact for representitives of gov agencies

• Ensure that ICS organization receives the info, resources, and support needed

  • Establishing policy based on interactions with agencies and other stakeholders
  • Collect, analyzing, and disseminating information to support establisment of shared situational awareness
  • Establishes priorities among incidents
  • Resolving critical resource issues
  • Facilitating logistics support & resource tracking
  • Synchronizing public information messages

• Implementing strategies and developing tactics to carry out the incident objectives
• Directing the management of all tactical activities
• Supporting the development of the incident action plan
• Organizing, assigning, and supervising the tactical response

• Only developed after there is a need for a planning section
• Preparing and documenting incident action plans
• Managing information and maintaining situational awareness
• Tracking resources
• Maintaining incident docs
• Developing plans for demobilization

• Ordering, obtaining, maintaining, and accounting for personnel, equipment, and supplies
• Providing communication planning and resources
• Setting up food services for responders
• Setting up and maintaining incident facilities
• Providing support transportation
• Providing medical services to incident personnel

• Contract negoitation and monitoring
• Timekeeping
• Cost analysis
• Compensation for injury or damage to property
• Documentation for reimbursement

• Establishes common definitions for the capabilities of personnel, equipment, teams, supplies, and facilities

• Capability

  • Resource's capability to perform its function in Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery

• Category

  • Function for which a resource would be most useful

• Kind

  • Broad characterization, st personnel, equipment, teams, and facilities

• Type

  • capacity to perform its function based on size/power/capacity/experience/qualifications. Type 1 has greater capacity than type 2, 3, 4

• Qualifiying: personnel meet the minimum established standards to fill positions
• Certification: recongition that an individual has completed qualificatoin or a position
• Credentialing: documentation (ID card or badge)

• Stockpiling, mutaual aid agreements, determining how and where to reassign resources, developing contracts to acquire resources from vendors

1. Identify requirements

   • Type and quanitity of resources needed
   • Locations where resources should be sent
   • Who will receive and use the resources

2. Order and Acquire

   • Find out resources that are local or request from other places

3. Mobilize Personnel and other resources begin mobilizing when notified through established channels

   • Date/time/place of departure
   • Mode of transportation to the incident
   • Estimated date and time of arrival
   • Reporting location and assigned supervisor
   • Anticipated incident assignment
   • Anticipated duration
   • Resource order #
   • Incident number
   • Cost and funding codes

4. Track and Report

   • Helps track the location of resources
   • Helps staff prepare to receieve and use resources
   • Protects the safety and security
   • Enables resource coordination and movement

5. Demobilize

   • Resources should reassign or demobilize as soon as they are not needed

6. Reimburse and Restock

   • Establish and maintain readness of resources
   • Collect bills and validate costs
   • Ensure resource providers are paid in a timely manner

• Sharing of resources and services between jurisdictions or organizations
• Established the legal basis for two or more entities to share resources
• Authorized across a wide range of actors, between cities, states, ngo's, communities, agencies, internationally, etc
• Aid can be declined that do not meet its needs

• Many configured like the standard ICS structure, with command team, ops, planning, logi, and finance/admin
• May also opt to use their day-to-day deparmental agency structure

• Activated for variety of incidents

  • Multiple jurisdictions
  • Incident commander or unified command indicates incident could expand rapidly
  • Similar incident had EOC precendence
  • EOC director or offical directs EOC activation
  • Inicident is imminent
  • Threshold events described in emergency ops plan
  • Significant impacts to the population are anticipated

• Multiagency coordination groups
• Sometimes called policy groups
• Act as a policy-level body
• Support resource prioritization and allocation
• Make cooperative multi-agency decisions
• Enable decision making among elected and appointed officials and the IC

• Joint information system integrates incident information and public affirs into a unified organization that provides consistend, coordinated, accurate, accessible timely, and complete inofmration to public and stakeholders
• Develop and deliverying coordinated interagency messages
• Develop, recommend, and executing public information plans and strategies
• Advise on public affirs issues
• Addressing and managing rumors and inaccurate information

• Strategic

  • High level directions

• Tactical

  • Communications between and among on-scene command and tactical personnel

• Support

  • Coordination of support of strategic and tactical communications

• Public

  • Alerts and warnings, press conferences

• Reports

  • Situation Report (sitrep): regular reports that contain information regarding the incident status during the past operational period and the specific details for an incident
  • Status report: reports such as spot reports, that include vital or time sensitive info. More function specifically and less formal than sitreps

• Incident Action plans

  • Plans containing incident objectives established by IC or UC and addressing tactics and support activities

• Data collection and processing

  • Follows

    • Rapid assessment
    • Data collection plans
    • Validation
    • Analysis
    • Dissemination
    • Updating