NIMS Incident Command System Training

ICS-300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents    

Course Objectives:

  • Describe how the NIMS Command and Management component supports the management of expanding incidents.
  • Describe the incident/event management process for supervisors and expanding incidents as prescribed by the Incident Command System (ICS).
  • Implement the incident management process on a simulated expanding incident.
  • Develop an Incident Action Plan for a simulated incident.

Course Topics:

  • ICS Fundamentals Review
  • Unified Command
  • Incident/Event Assessment and Agency
  • Guidance in establishing Incident Objectives
  • Planning Process
  • Incident Resources Management
  • Demobilization, Transfer of Command and Close-Out

Required For:

Middle management, strike team leaders, task force leaders, unit leaders, division/group supervisors, branch directors, and Multi-Agency Coordination System/Emergency Operations Center Staff.

 

ICS-400: Advanced ICS for Command and General Staff –Complex Incidents

Course Objectives:

  • Explain how major incidents pose special management challenges.
  • Describe the circumstances in which an Area Command is established.
  • Describe the circumstances in which multiagency coordination systems are established.
Course Topics:
  • Fundamentals Review for Command and General Staff
  • Major and/or Complex Incident/Event Management Area Command
  • Multi-Agency Coordination

Required for:

Command and general staff, agency administrators, department heads, emergency managers, areas commander, and Multi-Agency Coordination System/Emergency Operations Center managers.