Used for all kinds of incidents, applicable for all events, not only just for emergencies
Establishes common processes for incident level planning
Used to manage any type of incident
ICS (IS-100)
National Incident Management System
- Gives a unified chain of command
- Managable span of control
- Establishes common terminology
Incident Action Planning
Managable Span of Control
Refers to number of individuals that one supervisor can manage effectively during an incidient
Comprehensive Resource Management
Entails:
Resource identification
Qualification and certification of personnel
Planning for resources
Acquiring, storing, and inventorying resources
Establishment and Trasnfer of the Chain of Command
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
Unified Command
Established when there are multiple agencies, where no single jurisdiction exists that has the authority to manage the incident on its own
Chain of command
Allows incident comander to direct and control the actions to avoid the incident
Q-> snafucatchers?
Avoids confusion by requiring that orders flow from supervisors
Unity of command
Refers to overall hierarchy of organizational command
Each person
Reports to one ICS supervisor
Recieve work assignments only from the ICS supervisor
Prevents confusion based on titles
Accountability
Multiple principles
Checkin/checkout
Incident Action Planning
Unity of command
Personal responsibility
Span of control
Resource tracking
Five Major ICS functional areas
Command
Sets incident objectives, strategies, and priorities
Operations
Conducts operations to reach incident objectives
Planning
Support by tracking resources, collecting/analyzing info, maintaining documentation
Logistics
Arranges for resources and needed services to support achievement of the incident objectives
Finance/Administration
Monitors costs related to the incident
Intelligence/Investigations
6th ICS function
Used only for intensive intelligence gathering or investigative activity
Incident Command
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
Incident Coordination
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
Emergency Operations Center
EOC’s
Physical or virtual location where staff come together to address threats and hazards
Staffed with personnel trained for, or authorized to, represent their agency/discipline
Equipped with mechanisms for communicating with the incident site
Providing support to the incident by obtaining resources
Applicable at different levels of gov
Joint Information Center
JIC
Established to coordinate all incident-related public information activities
General Staff Roles
May establish 4 additional sections (ops, planning, logistics, finance/admin)
Each section has a designated section chief
Ops should be first established
Others are about planning the incident response
Ops is responsible for developing strat and tactics
Responsible for staging areas
Planning
Prepare and disseminate incident action plan
Track resources
Logistics
Provides facilities, services, and material support
Critical on more complex incidents
Finance
Financial and cost analysis
Contract negotiation, and documenting claims
ICS organizational structure is based on resource requirements
Operations
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
Planning
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
Logistics Section
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
Finance/Admin section
Contract negoitation and monitoring
Timekeeping
Cost analysis
Compensation for injury or damage to property
Documentation for reimbursement
NIMS (IS-700)
NIMS resource management
Typing Resources
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
Credentialing Personnel
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)
Planning for resources
Stockpiling, mutaual aid agreements, determining how and where to reassign resources, developing contracts to acquire resources from vendors
Resource Management
Identify requirements
Type and quanitity of resources needed
Locations where resources should be sent
Who will receive and use the resources
Order and Acquire
Find out resources that are local or request from other places
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
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
Demobilize
Resources should reassign or demobilize as soon as they are not needed
Reimburse and Restock
Establish and maintain readness of resources
Collect bills and validate costs
Ensure resource providers are paid in a timely manner
Mutal Aid
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
NIMS Management Characteristics
Same as ICS except
Area commands
Established based on overseeing multiple incidents or large/evolving situation
Relevant to situations with several Incident Command Posts (ICPs) requesting similar, scarce resources
Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs)
Used to manage on-scene, tactical-level response, off site locations where staff come to address immiment issues
Varying duties, including:
Collecting, analyzing, and sharing information
Support resource needs and requests
Coordinating plans and determining current & future needs
Providing coordination and policy direction
Configuration of EOCs
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
Activation Levels
Multiple activation levels to allow for scaled response
Levels
3
Normal for the EOC, watch and warning activiations
2
Certain EOC team members are activated to monitor a credible threat, risk or hazard
1
Full activation
Other NIMS Structures
MAC Group
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
JIS
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
JIS components: PIO and JIC
PIO (public information officier)
Advises the IC, Unified Command, or EOC director on public infomration
Gathers, verifies, and coordinates accurate, accessible, and timely information
Handle sinquirings from the media/public/elected officials
Providing emergency public information and warnings
Conducting rumor monitoring and response
JIC
Central location that houses JIS operations and public information statff perform essential information
Informing Public and Stakeholders
Gather, Verify, Coordinate, and Disseminate
Communications and Information Management
Interopability
Capacity for emergency management and response personnel to interact and work together
Communciate across jurisidictions and organizations, via voice, data, and video, in real time
Reliability, Portability, and Scalability
Reliable - familiar to users, adaptable to new technology
Portable - can effectively be transported, deployed, and integrated
Scalable - Able to expand to support situations
Resiliency and Redundancy
Resilency - system can withstand and continue to perform after damage or loss of infrastructure
Redundancy - When primary communication methods fail, duplicate systems enable continuity through alterate communication methods
Security
Information is sensitive
Communication Types
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
Incident Information
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
