# Presentation: 162352

## Unit 2:  ICS Overview  

## Unit Objectives

**Identify three purposes of the Incident Command System (ICS).**
**Identify requirements ****to use ICS. **

## What Is an Incident?

**An ****incident**** is . . .**
**. . . an occurrence ****or event, natural ****or manmade, that requires a response to protect life or property. **

## What Is ICS?

**The Incident Command System:**
**Is a standardized, on-scene, all-hazard incident management concept. **
**Allows its users to adopt an integrated organizational structure to match the complexities and demands of single or multiple incidents without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries.**

## ICS Purposes

**Using management best practices, ICS helps to ensure:**
**The safety of responders and others.**
**The achievement of tactical objectives.**
**The efficient use of resources.**

## History of ICS

**Weaknesses in incident management were due to:**
**Lack of accountability. **
**Poor communication. **
**Lack of a planning process. **
**Overloaded Incident Commanders. **
**No method to integrate interagency requirements. **
**The identification of these areas of management weakness resulted in the development of ICS.**
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## Knowledge Review (1 of 2)

_**Instructions**_**:  Decide if the statement is TRUE or FALSE.**

**ICS could be used to ****manage a training conference, ****charity fundraising event, ****or emergency response **
**and recovery.**

## Knowledge Review (2 of 2)

_**Instructions**_**:  Decide if the statement is TRUE or FALSE.**

**The study of previous **
**incident responses found**
** ****that failures likely**
**resulted from a lack of resources.**

## Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPDs)

**Management of Domestic Incidents**

**HSPD-5**

**HSPD-8**

**National Incident Management System (NIMS)**

**National Preparedness**

- Mandates

## NIMS

**What ? . . . ****NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template . . .**
**Who? . . . ****to enable Federal, State, tribal, and local governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work together . . . **
**How? . . . ****to prepare for, prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity . . . **
**Why? . . . ****in order to reduce the loss of life and property, and harm to the environment.**

## NIMS Components & ICS

**Command and Management**

**Preparedness**

**Resource Management **

**Communications and ****Information Management **

**Ongoing Management and****Maintenance **

**Incident Command System**

**Multiagency Coordination Systems**

**Public Information**

## ICS Benefits

**ICS:**
**Meets the needs of incidents of any kind or size.**
**Allows personnel from a variety of agencies to meld rapidly into a common management structure. **
**Provides logistical and administrative support to operational staff. **
**Is cost effective by avoiding duplication of efforts. **

## Activity:  Management Challenges (1 of 2)

_**Instructions**_**:**
**Working as a team, review the scenario presented on the next visual.**
**Identify the top three challenges for managing this incident.  Write these challenges on chart paper.**
**Using what you have learned so far, describe how ICS could be used to address these challenges.**
**Select a spokesperson.  Be prepared to present in 5 minutes.**

## Activity:  Management Challenges (2 of 2)

_**Scenario**_**:  An unexpected flash flood has struck a small community.  As a result:**
**Homes, schools, and the business district have been evacuated.**
**Critical infrastructure has been damaged including contamination of the water supply, downed power lines, and damaged roads.**
**Perimeter control and security in the business district are needed.**
**Mutual aid and assistance is arriving from several surrounding communities. **

## Summary (1 of 2)

_**Instructions**_**:  Answer the questions below.**
**What are three purposes of ICS?**
**What are the requirements to use ICS?**

## Summary (2 of 2)

**ICS:**
**Is a standardized management tool for meeting the demands of small or large emergency or nonemergency situations. **
**Represents "best practices," and has become the standard for emergency management across the country. **
**May be used for planned events, natural disasters, and acts of terrorism. **
**Is a key feature of NIMS. **