# Presentation: 148572

## 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, caused by either human or natural phenomena, that requires response actions to prevent or minimize loss of life, or damage to property and/or the environment.**

## 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.**

## Video

**Click on the image to start the video.**

## Activity

_**Instructions**_**:  Working as a team, develop a brief description after reading the statement below.**

**Briefly describe two examples where ICS could be used to manage planned events in your school.**

## Knowledge Review

_**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.**

## NIMS Components & ICS

**Command and Management**

**Additional Information:  www.fema.gov/emergency/nims**

**Preparedness**

**Resource Management **

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

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

**Incident Command System**

**Multiagency Coordination Systems**

**Public Information**

## ICS Mandates

**NIMS requires all levels of government to:**
**Prepare for and use ICS for all domestic responses.**
**Adopt ICS as a condition of receiving Federal preparedness funding.**
**This requirement also applies to schools and school districts receiving emergency preparedness funding including the U.S. Department of Education Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) grants.**

## Other ICS Mandates

**Hazardous Materials Incidents**
**Superfund Amendments and ****Reauthorization Act (SARA) – 1986**
**Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Rule 1910.120**
**State and Local Regulations**

## 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 school personnel to manage 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**_**:  A second-grade class is on a science field trip to a State park.  Although the day started out bright and sunny, severe weather is now threatening.  The lead teacher decides to end the trip a little early to avoid getting caught in a storm.   Students are organized and loaded onto the bus.  The final count reveals that one student is missing.  Other students and teachers report that they last saw the missing student at a spot near where the river and dense wooded area meet.  While the students wait on the bus, a few teachers and park personnel search the area but fail to find the missing child.**
_**Questions**_**: **
**What are the priorities?  **
**What are the incident management challenges?  **

## 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. **