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The Incident Command System (ICS) is? - -Standardized, on-scene, all-risk,
incident management concept. ICS is the result of decades of lessons
learned in the organization and management of emergency incidents.
-Designers of the system recognized early that ICS must be interdisciplinary
and organizationally flexible to meet the following management challenges -
-1. Meet the needs of the incidents of any kind or size
2. Be usable for routine events or complex emergencies incidents
3. allow personnel from a variety of agencies to meld rapidly into a common
management structure.
4. provided logistical and administrative support to ensure that operational
staff can meet incident objectives.
5. Be cost effective by avoiding duplication of efforts
-Poorly managed incident response can be devastating to our? - -Economy,
to our food supply and to our health and safety.
-ICS is built around five major functions that may be applied on any incident
whether it is large or small. The five major management functions are - -1.
Incident Command IC
2. Operations Section
3. Planning Section
4. Logistics Section
5. Finance/Administration Section
-Incident Commander - -The individual responsible for overall management
of the incident
-Command Staff - -The command staff consists of the PIO, Safety officer and
liaison officer. They report directly to the incident command. They may have
an assistant or assistants as needed.
-Officer - -Officer is the ICS title for the personnel responsible for the
Command Staff positions of Safety, Liaison and Public information.
-General Staff - -The group of incident management personnel reporting to
the incident commander. They may have one or more deputies as needed.
The General staff consist of the Operations section chief, Planning section
Chief, Logistics section chief and finance/administration section chief.
, -Section - -The organizational level with responsibilities for a major
functional area of the incident Operations Planning Logistic
finance/administration
-Chief - -The ICS title for individuals responsible for functional sections:
Operations, Planning, Logistics and Finance/Administration
-Branch - -The organizational level having functional or geographic
responsibility for major parts of the operation of logistic functions.
-Director - -The ICS title for individual responsible for supervision of a
branch
-Division/Group - -Division are used to divide an incident geographically.
Groups are used to divide an incident functionally.
-Supervisor - -The ICS title for individuals responsible for a Division or group
-A Specified combination of the same kind of type or resources with
common communications and a leader is a _______________ - -Strike team
-The Organizational element having functional responsibility for a specific
incident planning, logistics or finance/administration activities - -Unit
-Leader - -The ICS title for an individual responsible for a task force, Strike
team, or functional unit
-Resources - -Personnel and equipment available, or potentially available,
for assignment to incidents. Resources are described by kind of type and
may be used in tactical, support or overhead capacities at an incident.
-ISC established lines of ______________ authority and ___________ reporting
relationships - -Supervisory/Formal
-Within ICS, there is complete _________ of __________, meaning that each
position and each person within the system has only one designated
supervisor. - -Unity/Command
-___________ of _________ means that there is an orderly line of authority and
reporting relationships within the ranks of the organization, with lower levels
subordinates to, and connected to, higher levels - -Chain/Command
-Chain of command is used to communicate ________ and maintain
___________________ __________________ - -direction
management control
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