Incident Command System

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Incident Command System

• IAEM Seminar
• 25 November 2008

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Scope

• Overview
• Management Characteristics
• ICS Structure
• ICS Application
• ICS and your organization

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Overview

• What is ICS?
• Why does it exist?
• What are the benefits?

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Management Characteristics

• Common Terminology
• Modular Organization
• Management by Objectives
• Incident Action Planning
• Manageable Span of Control
• Incident Facilities and Locations
• Comprehensive Resource Management

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Management Characteristics

• Integrated Communications
• Establishment and Transfer of Command
• Chain of Command and Unity of Command
• Unified Command
• Accountability
• Dispatch/Deployment
• Information and Intelligence Management

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Structure
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Structure
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Structure
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ICS Application

• Integrated response and recovery
• Corporate policy and management endorsement
• Take what is relevant
• Appropriate response
• Can be applied for emergency response, crisis
  management and contingency planning
• Risk based
• Business continuity management

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ICS Application

• Review/gap analysis
• Development of procedures
• Activation process
• Response times
• Assessment
• Authorization
• Team structure location and business unit
• Roles and responsibilities (pre, during and post)
• Training and testing
• Review

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ICS and Your Organization

• ERT, IMT and CMT what is the difference?
• ERT on-scene response
• IMT site or business unit response
• CMT corporate business response

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ICS and Your Organization
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ICS and Your Organization
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ICS and Your Organization
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ICS and Your Organization
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Summary

• ICS is a good framework for the basis of
  emergency and crisis response
• Strategic approach to resolve operational issues
• ICS methodology should consider and integrate
  broader risk management and business continuity
  management issues