ICS for Executives
8 Hour Course
Summary Description
Any incident can have a mix of political, economic, social, environmental, and cost implications with potentially serious long-term effects. Also, more and more incidents are multiagency and/or multijurisdictional. As the Executive or Senior Official, you need to be aware of how ICS and interagency (regional) multiagency coordination systems can work to ensure cooperative response efforts.
How do I maintain control when an incident occurs? As the Executive or Senior Official, you establish the overall policy, and provide guidelines on priorities, objectives, and constraints to a qualified Incident Commander. In many agencies, this is done as a matter of policy through a written delegation of authority.
Where do I fit in the incident management process? ICS has a well-defined hierarchy of command. After you have clearly articulated the policy you wish followed and delegated certain authorities, the Incident Comman`der who reports to you will have the necessary authority and guidance to manage the incident. The Incident Commander is the primary person in charge at the incident. In addition to managing the incident scene, he or she is responsible to keep you informed and up to date on all important matters pertaining to the incident. Your continuing role is to ensure that you are informed and that your Incident Commander is functioning in a responsible manner.
Goals
The purpose of this course is to provide an orientation to the Incident Command System (ICS) for Executives and Senior Officials (including elected officials, city/county managers, agency administrators, etc.), including Incident Command System (ICS) principles and their role in supporting incident management. This course is intended to provide a forum to discuss your organization’s strategic and executive-level preparedness and response issues and challenges related to incident management at all levels. It is also intended to serve as a vehicle to share proven strategies and practices as well as enhanced teamwork and coordination among the organization’s senior officials responsible for emergency management. Topics will include but not be limited to:
- DEFINE THE ROLE OF AN EXECUTIVE RELATIVE TO THE ICS.
- DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS WAYS ICS CAN BE APPLIED.
- DESCRIBE THE BASIC ORGANIZATION OF ICS AND KNOW THE FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFFS.
- DESCRIBE BASIC ICS TERMINOLOGY.
- IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INCIDENT/EVENT ICS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE ACTIVITIES ACCOMPLISHED BY AREA COMMANDS, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTERS (EOCS) AND MULTI-AGENCY COORDINATION SYSTEMS (MACS).
- DESCRIBE THE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN EXECUTIVE AS RELATED TO AN INCIDENT/EVENT. (INCLUDE THE AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR BRIEFING AND DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY)
- EXPLAIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE, LOGISTICAL, FINANCIAL AND REPORTING IMPLICATIONS OF LARGE INCIDENT/EVENT OPERATIONS.
Prerequisites
None required.
Goal of this Signet North America Chemistry You’ll Actually Use Experience is to ensure that personnel will better understand the chemical terminology required of them by NFPA 472. This Experience is one very full day of interactive hands-on chemical demonstrations, explorations, explanations and real-world applications for responders at all levels. This course meets and exceeds criteria found in United States OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120(q)(6)(i)(A), 1910.120(q)(6)(ii)(C), 1910.120(q)(6)(iii)(I), and 1910.120(q)(6)(iv)(I). It also meets criteria found in 2008 NFPA 472 Chapters 5 Core Competencies for Operations Level Responders [5.2.2 (8), 5.2.3 (8), 5.2.3 (9)], Chapter 6 Mission-Specific Competencies for Operations Level Responders [6.3.3.2 (2), and Chapter 8 Competencies for Hazardous Material Technicians [8.2.2.2, 8.2.2.3].
Prerequisites
None required.