ICS Flashcards
IS-100.c provides information on ICS, which is part of what?
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
What approach ensures solutions that serve the entire community are implemented, while simultaneously making sure that the resources the different members of the community bring to the table are used efficiently?
Whole Community approach
ICS was developed when, following a series of catastrophic fires in California?
1970s
The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized approach to incident management that:
Is used for all kinds of incidents by all types of organizations and at all levels of government; ICS is applicable to small incidents as well as large and complex ones.
Can be used not only for emergencies, but also for planned events.
Enables a coordinated response among various jurisdictions and agencies.
Establishes common processes for incident-level planning and resource management.
Allows for the integration of resources (such as facilities, equipment, personnel) within a common organizational structure.
Yep
The Incident Command System (ICS) can be used to manage any type of incident, including a planned event (e.g., the Olympics, the Governor’s inauguration, state fairs, a local parade, etc.) The use of ICS is applicable to all types of incidents, regardless of their size or cause.
As a system ICS is extremely useful. Not only does it provide an organizational structure for incident management, but it also guides the process for planning, building, and adapting that structure.
What is a standardized, on-scene ,all-hazards approach to incident management?
Incident Command System (ICS)
What allows all responders to adopt an integrated organizational structure that matches the complexities and demands of the incident while respecting agency and jurisdictional authorities?
Incident Command System (ICS)
What is a systematic, proactive approach to guide all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector to work together to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the effects of incidents?
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
What are the three major components of National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
Resource Management
Command and Coordination
-Including ICS
Communications and Information Management
What provides a systematic, proactive approach guiding departments and agencies at all levels of government, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work seamlessly to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, in order to reduce the loss of life and property, and harm to the environment?
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Effective March 6, 1990, what OSHA rule requires all organizations that handle hazardous materials to use ICS?
OSHA rule 1910.120
Actions to institutionalize the use of ICS take place at two levels. What are the two levels?
Policy Level
Organizational Level
At what level does, institutionalizing ICS means government officials (i.e., Governors, mayors, county and city managers, tribal leaders, and others must:
-Adopt ICS through executive order, proclamation, or legislation as the jurisdiction’s official incident response system; and
-Direct that incident managers and response organizations in their jurisdictions train, exercise, and use ICS in their response operations.
Policy Level
At what level does evidence that incident managers and emergency response organizations are institutionalizing ICS would include the following:
-ICS is being integrated into functional and system-wide emergency operations policies, plans, and procedures.
-ICS training is planned or underway for responders, supervisors, and command-level officers.
-Responders at all levels are participating in and/or coordinating ICS-oriented exercises that involve responders from multiple disciplines and jurisdictions.
Organizational/Operational Level
What represents a core set of doctrine, concepts, principles, terminology, and organizational processes that enables effective, efficient, and collaborative incident management?
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
What describes standard mechanisms to systematically manage resources, including personnel, equipment, supplies, teams, and facilities, both before and during incidents in order to allow organizations to more effectively share resources when needed?
Resource Management
What describes leadership roles, processes, and recommended organizational structures for incident management at the operational and incident support levels and explains how these structures interact to manage incidents effectively and efficiently?
Command and Coordination
What describes systems and methods that help to ensure that incident personnel and other decision makers have the means and information they need to make and communicate decisions?
Communications and Information Management
The Incident Command System (ICS) has positively impacted incident management efforts by:
-Clarifying chain of command and supervision responsibilities to improve accountability.
-Leveraging interoperable communications systems and plain language to improve communications.
-Providing an orderly, systematic planning process.
-Implementing a common, flexible, predesigned management structure.
-Fostering cooperation between diverse disciplines and agencies.
The Incident Command System (ICS) has been tested for more than 40 years of emergency and nonemergency applications by all levels of government; and in nongovernmental and private-sector organizations. ICS helps to ensure:
-The safety of responders, community members, and others.
-The achievement of incident objectives.
-The efficient use of resources.
-ICS is a standardized management tool that allows better coordination and use of resources.
-ICS represents organizational “best practices” and has become the standard for emergency management.
-ICS can be used to manage the response for all incidents and planned events.
What is probably one of the most essential elements of ICS?
communication
What emphasizes effective planning, including management by objectives and reliance on an Incident Action Plan?
Incident Command System
What employs a modular organizational structure that can be tailored based on the size, complexity and hazards of an incident?
ICS
The ICS features related to command structure include what?
chain of command and unity of command
ICS helps ensure full utilization of all incident resources by:
-Maintaining a manageable span of control
-Establishing designated incident facilities and locations
-Implementing comprehensive resource management practices
-Defining clear processes for dispatch/deployment of resources
-Ensuring integrated communications
The ICS organizational structure develops in a top-down, modular fashion that is based on the size and complexity of the incident, as well as the specifics of the hazard environment created by the incident.
As the ICS organizational structure expands, the number of management positions also expands to adequately address the requirements of the incident.
What is a concise, coherent means of capturing and communicating overall incident priorities, objectives, strategies, tactics, and assignments in the context of both operational and support activities?
Incident Action Plan (IAP)
To be effective, an Incident Action Plan (IAP) should:
-Cover a specified timeframe
-Be proactive
-Specify the incident objectives
-State the activities to be completed
-Assign Responsibilities
-Identify needed resources
-Specify communication protocols
For smaller/less complex incidents, the Incident Action Plan (IAP) may be oral or written, except for hazardous materials incidents, which require a written IAP.
Every Incident Action Plan (IAP) must answer the following four questions:
-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?
What is the optimal span of control?
one supervisor to five subordinates (1:5)
What refers to the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively during an incident?
span of control
What describes standard mechanisms to identify requirements, order and acquire, mobilize, track and report, demobilize, and reimburse and restock resources such as personnel, teams, facilities, equipment and supplies?
Comprehensive Resource Management
In a Unified Command there is no single “Commander.” Instead the Unified Command manages the incident through jointly approved objectives.
What is an orderly line that details how authority flows through the hierarchy of the incident management organization?
chain of command
What are the five major Incident Command System (ICS) functional areas?
Command
Operations
Planning
Logistics
Finance/Administration
What ICS functional area sets the incident objectives, strategies, and priorities, and has overall responsibility for the incident?
Incident Command Section
What ICS functional area conducts operations to reach the incident objectives. Establishes tactics and directs all operational resources?
Operations Section
What ICS functional area supports the incident action planning process by tracking resources, collecting/analyzing information, and maintaining documentation?
Planning Section
What ICS functional area arranges for resources and needed services to support achievement of the incident objectives (resources can include personnel, equipment, teams, supplies, and facilities)?
Logistics Section
What ICS functional area monitors costs related to the incident. Provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analyses?
Finance/Administration
What is the sixth ICS function identified in NIMS?
Intelligence/Investigations
What ICS functional area can be established to collect, analyze, and disseminate incident-related information and intelligence for incidents involving intensive intelligence gathering and investigative activity (such as a criminal or terrorist act, or epidemiological, accident or mass fatality investigation)?
Intelligence/Investigations
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) defines what as the act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority?
command
What is the only position that is always staffed in ICS applications?
Incident Commander
When you are using the Incident Command System (ICS) to manage an incident, who has the authority to establish objectives, make assignments, and order resources?
Incident Commander
The jurisdiction or organization with primary responsibility for an incident designates the individual at the scene who is responsible for establishing command and the protocol for transferring command.
What is the process of moving the responsibility for incident command from one Incident Commander to another called?
transfer of command
Who is responsible for all Incident Command System (ICS) functional areas until he or she delegates a function?
Incident Commander
In the Incident Command System (ICS), the Command Staff may include who?
Public Information Officer
Safety Officer
Liaison Officer
In the ICS Command Staff, who interfaces with the public and media and/or with other agencies with incident-related information requirements?
Public Information Officer
In the ICS Command Staff, who monitors incident operations and advises the Incident Commander on all matters relating to safety, including the health and safety of incident management personnel?
Safety Officer
In the ICS Command Staff, who serves as the Incident Commander’s point of contact for representatives of governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private-sector organizations?
Liaison Officer
Who is responsible for developing and implementing strategy and tactics to accomplish the incident objectives?
This means they organize, assigns, and supervises all the tactical or response resources assigned to the incident. If a Staging Area is established they would manage it.
Operations Section Chief
Who oversees the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of operational information related to the incident?
It is their responsibility to prepare and disseminate the Incident Action Plan, as well as track the status of all incident resources.
Planning Section Chief
Who is responsible for providing facilities, services, and material support for the incident?
Logistics Section
Who assists the Incident Commander and Operations Section Chief by providing the resources and services required to support incident activities?
Logistics Section Chief
Who is responsible for all of the financial and cost analysis aspects of an incident?
These include negotiation, recording personnel and equipment time, documenting and processing claims for accidents and injuries occurring at the incident, and keeping a running tally of the costs associated with the incident?
Finance and Administration Section
