# Presentation: 162347

## Unit 2:ICS Overview

## Unit Objectives

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

## What Is an Incident?

**What Is an Incident?**

**An incident is . . .**
**. . . an occurrence, either caused by 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.**

## 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 Preparedness Goal**
**National Incident Management System (NIMS)**
**National Response Plan (NRP)**

**National Preparedness**

**Mandates**

## National Preparedness Goal

**To engage Federal, State, local, and tribal entities, their private and nongovernmental partners, and the general public to achieve and sustain risk-based target levels of capability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from major events to minimize the impact on lives, property, and the economy.**

## NIMS & NRP

**NIMS: **** Standardizes incident management processes, protocols, and procedures for use by all responders.  ****Mandates use of ICS.**

**NRP:****  Establishes . . .**
**Federal coordination structures/mechanisms.**
**Direction for incorporation of existing plans.**
**Consistent approach to managing incidents.**

**Notes:**
Review the key points on the visual.  Augment the discussion using the following additional key points:
In Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)-5, the President directed that the Department of Homeland Security develop a new National Response Plan (NRP) to align Federal coordinating structures, capabilities, and resources into a unified, all-discipline, and all-hazards approach to domestic incident management.

The National Response Plan is based upon the belief that incident are typically managed at the lowest possible geographic, organizational, and jurisdictional level.

## NIMS Components & ICS

**NIMS Components & ICS**

**Command and Management**

**Additional Information: www.fema.gov/NIMS**

**Preparedness**

**Resource Management **

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

**Supporting Technologies **

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

**Incident Command System**

**Multiagency Coordination Systems**

**Public Information Systems**

## 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**

## ICS Benefits

**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 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. **