ICS 100 Flashcards
An incident is an occurrence, either caused by ___1___, or ____2____, that requires response actions to prevent or minimize loss of life or damage to property and/or the environment.
- humans.
2. natural phenomena.
ICS is:
-A proven management system based on successful ___1___.
-The result of decades of lessons learned in the ___2___ and ___3___ of emergency incidents.
- business practices.
- organization
- management
ICS is designed to do:
- Meet the needs of incidents of any kind or size.
- Allow personnel from a variety of agencies to meld rapidly into a ______1_______ structure.
- Proved logistical and administrative support to operational staff.
- Be cost effective by avoiding ____2____.
- common management
2. duplication of efforts
ICS helps ensure full utilization of all incident resources by: (4)
- Maintaining a manageable span of control.
- Establishing predesignated incident location and facilities.
- Implementing resource management practices.
- Ensuring integrated communications.
ICS establishes common terminology allowing diverse incident management and support entities to work together. Common terminology helps to define: (4)
- Organizational functions.
- Resource descriptions.
- Incident facilities.
- Position titles.
Management by objectives. It can be accomplished through the incident action planning process, which includes the following steps: (6)
- Understand agency policy and direction.
- Assess incident situation.
- Establish incident objectives.
- Select appropriate strategy or strategies to achieve objectives.
- Perform tactical direction.
- Provide necessary follow-up.
At the simplest level, all Incident Action Plans (oral or written) must have four elements: (4)
- What do we want to do?
- Who is responsible for doing it?
- How do we communicate with each other?
- What is the procedure if someone is injured?
Span of control: pertains to the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively during emergency response incidents or special events.
Effective span of control on incidents may vary from __1__ to __2__, and a ratio of one supervisor to ___3___ reporting elements is recommended.
- 3
- 7
- 5
Where should the Staging area be set up?
Staging Areas should be located close enough to the incident for timely response, but far enough away to be out of the immediate impact zone.
*may be more than one staging area at an incident.
ICS resources can be factored into two categories: (2)
- Tactical Resources: personnel and major items of equipment that are available or potentially available to the Operations function on assignment to incidents.
- Support Resources: All other resources required to support the incident. Food, communications equipment, tents, supplies, and fleet vehicles are examples of support resources.
Tactical resources are always classified as one of three types: (3)
- Assigned.
- Available.
- Out-of-service.
Resource Management includes processes for :
4
- Categorizing.
- Ordering.
- Dispatching.
- Recovering resources.
The use of a common communications plan is essential for ensuring that ___1___ can communicate with one another during an incident. Communication equipment, procedures and systems must operate across ____2____ (interoperably).
- responders
2. jurisdictions
Effective ICS communications include three elements:
____1____: The “hardware” systems that transfer information.
____2____: for the use of all available communications resources.
____3____: Networks: the procedures and processes for transferring information internally and externally.
- Modes.
- Planning.
- Networks.
What is chain of command?
Chain of command means that there is an orderly line of authority within the ranks of the organization, with lower levels subordinate to, and connected to, higher levels.