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Recognized as a premier ICS training company, we specialize in developing and delivering scenarios and activity-driven system, team and position training.
All EMSI training courses are designed to meet and exceed DHS/FEMA NIMS/ICS training curriculum requirements, setting us apart in the industry. We are pleased to offer the following National Incident Management System ICS training courses:
TRAINING COURSES
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SYSTEM TRAINING
ICS-100 Introduction to the Incident Command System
Half-day introductory course focusing on basic features, principles and organizational sturctures of the Incident Command System.
No prerequisite required
EM-ICS-200 Basic Incident Command System
Course Overview
This course provides an overview of the NIMS Incident Command System that includes all of the tools, practices and procedures that are available in ICS to effectively manage emergency incidents or planned events. It ensures that students understand the basic concepts that allow an incident management organization to expand as needed to fit the incident and maintain its operational effectiveness.
Target Audience
Anyone subject to involvement in emergency response at any level
Specific Course Topics
• Principles and Features of NIMS ICS
• Organization Overview
• Incident Facilities
• Incident Resources
• Common Responsibilities
• Exercising Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-200 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-100
EM-ICS-300 Intermediate Incident Command System
Course Overview
This course provides an in-depth focus on the NIMS Incident Command System that includes all of the tools, practices and procedures that are available in ICS to effectively manage emergency incidents or planned events at a local Type 3 level. It ensures that students understand the basic concepts that allow an incident management organization to expand as needed to fit the incident and maintain its operational effectiveness.
Target Audience
Anyone subject to involvement in emergency response at any level
Specific Course Topics
• ICS Background
• ICS Terminology
• Transition to Extended Incidents
• Support Organizations
• Resource and Situation Management
• Operational Planning
• Incident Action Plan
• Plan Execution and Assessment
• Exercising Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-300 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-200
EM-ICS-400 Advanced Incident Command System
Course Overview
This course covers the complexities of managing multi-jurisdictional and multi-agency incidents and how to apply various options related to major or complex incident management.
Target Audience
All Command, Command Staff and General Staff positions within the ICS organization
Specific Course Topics
• Review of Command and General Staff
• Major and Complex Incident/Event Management
• Area Command advantages and use
• Multi-Agency Coordination System components and use
• Agency Representatives and their involvement in the response
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-400 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-408 Maritime Security Committee Member Interaction
with the Incident Management Team
Course Overview
This course is focused on the roles and responsibilities of Maritime Committee Members during all phases of response to an incident or event. It is designed to enhance and exercise the member’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it pertains to the incident action planning process during all phases of the all-hazard response effort.
Target Audience
Maritime Committee Members
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities of committee members
• Coordination entities and interactions
• ICS Overview
• Marine Transportation System Recovery Unit
• Interactions with IMT Members throughout the planning process
• Evaluating committee member effectiveness
Materials
• ICS-408 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: One day
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-300/400 Intermediate and Advanced Incident Command System
Course Overview
This course combines the ICS-300 and ICS-400 courses in a 5-day period. Days one through three cover the ICS-300 and days four and five cover the ICS-400.
Target Audience
Anyone subject to involvement in emergency response at any level. All Command, Command Staff and General Staff positions within the ICS organization.
Specific Course Topics
• ICS Background
• ICS Terminology
• Transition to Extended Incidents
• Support Organizations
• Resource and Situation Management
• Operational Planning
• Incident Action Plan
• Plan Execution and Assessment
• Review of Command and General Staff
• Major and Complex Incident/Event Management
• Area Command advantages and use
• Multi-Agency Coordination System components and use
• Agency Representatives and their involvement in the response
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-300/400 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Five days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-200
EM-ICS-EVP Event Planning Workshop
Course Overview
This course provides a workshop using ICS principles to plan for and implement a special event of local, regional or national significance. At the conclusion of the training, the event planning team will have the organizational structure, objectives, management organization, priorities, special operating procedures, logistics requirements, tactical resource needs, venue management and response contingency plans for an upcoming planned event.
Target Audience
Event planners and decision makers with responsibility for planning and managing a planned event
Specific Course Topics
• NIMS ICS and National Response Plan Review
• Special event planning process
• Development of priorities, limitations and constraints and objectives
• Development of event management support products and management team preparation
• Operating procedures associated with inter-agency management
• Integrate ICS practices and principles when planning for an event
• Develop an Incident Action Plan for the upcoming event
• Identify all resource, logistical and special needs for the event
• Develop contingency plans for an incident or event within the event
Materials
• ICS for Event Planning Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-EXEC Incident Command System for Executives
Course Overview
This course provides the Agency Executive with an overview of their roles and responsibilities during all phases of response. It is designed to enhance and exercise the executives understanding of NIMS ICS as it pertains to their involvement during response. It focuses on how and when the executive should provide direction and a delegation of authority to their respective Incident Commander. The course highlights ongoing interactions between the Executive and Incident Command throughout all phases of the all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Agency/Organization executive level officials
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Interacting with the Incident Management Team (Incident Commander)
• Providing direction and guidance to the Incident Commander/Area Commander
• Interacting with multiagency coordination entities
• Evaluation IMT effectiveness
Materials
• ICS for Executives Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four-six hours depending on exercises conducted
Recommended pre-requisite: successfully completion of ICS-700 and ICS-800
TEAM TRAINING
ICS-320 Intermediate Incident Management Team
Course Overview
This course focuses on the functions of Command, Command Staff, General Staff, Situation Unit Leader, Resources Unit Leader and Documentation Unit Leader in the planning process. It reviews functional responsibilities and what each position contributes to the development of an Incident Action Plan. Students practice learning points with a scenario based exercise that runs the length of the course. Students will graduate with the capability to perform on a Type 3 or 4 incident.
Target Audience
All Command, Command Staff, General Staff, Planning Section and Operations Section
Specific Course Topics
• NIMS ICS Review
• Establishing and operating an Incident Command Post
• Relationships between positions on an Incident Management Team
• Functional training for Command and Command Staff, Operations Section and Planning Section as it relates to the incident planning process
• Review and demonstrate the significant activities during an incident planning process
• Exercising Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-320 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-420-1 and EM-ICS-420-2 Advanced Incident Management Team
1 Team and 2 Teams
Course Overview
This course trains the primary positions on an Incident Management Team to effectively perform their roles and responsibilities during an interagency response operation and to prepare them to serve on a Type 2 Incident Management Team. It also provides the opportunity for students to demonstrate that they have the skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform as a primary member of a Type 2 Incident Management Team. The course stresses team development and synergy. A complex incident scenario is used during the course to teach students to react appropriately to exercise inputs and develop Incident Action Plans.
Target Audience
All personnel subject to filling a position on Type 2 Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• IMT Functional Review and Working Relationships
• Team Interaction and Theory
• Effective Decision Making
• Transitioning Into and Out of Incidents and Events
• Establishing and Operating an Incident Command Post
• Type 2 Exercise
Materials
• ICS-420 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300, ICS-400 and ICS position training for the position they are filling during the ICS-420 and students have some response experience in the functional position they would fill on an incident.
Note
EM-ICS-420-1 Advanced Incident Management Team, 1 Team is designed to exercise 1 team with a minimum of 20 students and a maximum of 25 students.
EM-ICS-420-2 Advanced Incident Management Team, 2 Teams is designed to exercise 2 teams with a minimum of 40 students and a maximum of 50 students.
EM-ICS-620 Area Command
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of Area Command Teams along with partner agencies and organizations to manage incidents requiring multiple Incident Management Teams or incidents of extraordinary significance that require a higher level of management. Scenarios are used to demonstrate the coordination between the on-scene Incident Management Teams and Area Command.
Target Audience
All personnel subject to filling positions on an Area Command Team or Incident Commanders subject to reporting to an Area Command
Specific Course Topics
• Review Concepts of NIMS ICS
• Area Command Responsibilities and Organizational Structure
• Incident Commanders Meeting
• Develop Priorities and Objectives
• Area Command Operating Guide
• Critical Resource Management
• Reporting Relationships
• Evaluating Effectiveness
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-620 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Area Command Job Aid
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300, ICS-400 and on-scene response experience in the functional position they would fill on an Area Command Team
POSITION TRAINING
EM-ICS-236 Staging Area Manager
Course Overview
This course will focus on the duties and responsibilities of the Staging Area Manager when assigned to the Operations Section of the Incident Management Team. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s understanding and duties when assigned as a Staging Area Manager in NIMS ICS all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Persons that are identified to fill the Staging Area Managers position within the Operations Section for all-hazard response
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Briefing and deploying resources
• Maintaining a safe and secure facility
• IMT interactions and information exchange
• Selecting and establishing a Staging Area
• Incident check-in process
• Resource accountability and status recording
• Working with other elements that may be co-located or assigned to the Staging Area
• Coordination with Logistics
• Downsizing and close out of the Staging Area
Materials
• ICS-236 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Staging Area Manager Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300 and ICS-339
EM-ICS-244/245/248
Planning Unit Support, Field Observer, Display Processor and
Check-In Status Recorder
Course Overview
This course provides position training on the roles and responsibilities of the Planning Section support positions, including Field Observer, Display Processor and Check-in Recorder. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it pertains to performing their duties in support of the planning process during all phases of the response effort.
Target Audience
Individuals that have been designated to fill any of these positions in support of an Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Incident check-in process
• Maintaining status of assigned resources
• Field verification of information
• Maintaining situational awareness
• Information gathering and documentation
• Creating and maintaining Command Post Displays
• Setup meeting and briefing displays
• Operating in the field environment
• Maintaining accurate records
• Working with technical data
Materials
• ICS-244/245/248 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Field Observer Job Aid
• Display Processor Job Aid
• Check-in Status Recorder Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-310 Intermediate Incident Commander
Course Overview
Upon completion of the course, the student will have demonstrated the knowledge and skills necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of an Incident Commander in the NIMS Incident Command System at the Type 3 level.
Target Audience
Personnel subject to acting as an Incident Commander on a Type 3 Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Initial response activities
• Staffing and organizing
• Relationships and interactions with staff and other stakeholders
• Executive level interactions
• Command’s direction
• Exercise Learning Components
• Meetings, Briefings and Support Activities
• IAP Prep and Approval
• Executing Plan and Assessing Progress
• External Coordination
• Transitioning and Demobilization
Materials
• ICS-310 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Incident Commander Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300 and experience in a Command or General Staff position on an incident
EM-ICS-339 Division Group Supervisor
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Division/Group Supervisor for all-hazard responses. It is designed to enhance and exercise how the supervisor carries out their duties in the all-hazard response environment.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill the Division/Group Supervisor position during an all-hazard response
Specific Course Topics
• Overview of the Operations Section
• Roles and responsibilities in support of operations
• Working with other entities within the IMT such as Finance and Logistics
• Conducting a safe and secure operations
• Providing feedback on effective of ongoing operations
• Providing recommendations on future operations
• Supervising assigned resources
• Evaluating performance of assigned resources
Materials
• ICS-339 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Division/Group Supervisor Job Aid
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-341 Incident Response Planning
Course Overview
This course provides a focus on the responsibilities of the functional units assigned to the Planning Section of an Incident Management Team. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it pertains to the planning process during the initial response and the transition to extended response operations using an Incident Action Plan.
Target Audience
All positions within the ICS Planning Section
Specific Course Topics
• NIMS and System Overview
• Initial Response Activities
• Establishing and Conveying Command’s Direction
• Planning Section Unit Duties and Responsibilities
• Command, Command Staff and General Staff roles and responsibilities within the planning process
• Detailed Planning Process Meetings and Briefings Description
Materials
• ICS-341 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-342 Documentation Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Documentation Unit Leader during all phases of an all-hazard response effort. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it pertains to documentation of activities throughout the planning process.
Target Audience
Individuals that have been designated to fill this position during response
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities
• Determining level of effort (staffing) needed to support incident requirements
• Duties throughout the ICS Planning Process
• Setting up and managing the Documentation Unit
• Handling classified documents
• Establishing and maintaining an Action Tracking System
• Establishing and maintaining the incident document process
• Services provided during meetings and briefings
• Support in publishing the IAP and other support plans
• Gathering, sorting and filing incident documentation
• Preparing and turning over final documentation package to appropriate authorities
Materials
• ICS-342 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Documentation Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days.
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-346 Situation Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course provides functional training on the roles and responsibilities of the Situation Unit Leader. The course is designed to enhance student’s skills when using NIMS ICS and is exercise intensive to help enforce critical learning points.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill the Situation Unit Leader position during all-hazard response
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities of the Situation Unit Leader
• Determining level of effort (staffing) needed to provide necessary services
• Establish and maintain information flow between IMT positions and the Situation Unit Leader
• Managing Field Observers
• Establishing and maintaining Status Boards
• Maintaining situational awareness
• Provide projections and modeling services
• Identifying target groups and conducting situation briefings
• Working with technical data
• Information reporting both internal and external to the incident
Materials
• ICS-346 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Situation Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-346/348 Situation Unit Leader and Resources Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course provides functional training on the roles and responsibilities of the Resources Unit Leader and Situation Unit Leader. Days one and two cover the Situation Unit Leader, and days three and four cover the Resources Unit Leader.
Target Audience
Personnel subject to filling the Situation and Resources Unit Leader positions
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Relationships with other members of an Incident Management Team (IMT)
• Information flow between the position holders and other IMT members
• Requirements for maintaining a situation status system, a resource management system
and a demobilization process
• Developing products supporting all three positions
• Planning Process
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-346 Training Manual
• ICS-348 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Situation Unit Leader Job Aid
• Resources Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-346/347/348 Planning Unit Suite
Situation Unit Leader, Demobilization Unit Leader and Resources Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course provides functional training on the roles and responsibilities of the Resources Unit Leader, Situation Unit Leader and Demobilization Unit Leader. Days one and two cover the Situation Unit Leader, days three and four cover the Resources Unit Leader and day five covers the Demobilization Unit Leader.
Target Audience
Personnel subject to filling the Situation, Resources and Demobilization Unit Leader positions
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Relationships with other members of an Incident Management Team (IMT)
• Information flow between the position holders and other IMT members
• Requirements for maintaining a situation status system, a resource management system
and a demobilization process
• Developing products supporting all three positions
• Planning Process
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-346 Training Manual
• ICS-347/348 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Situation Unit Leader Job Aid
• Demobilization Unit Leader Job Aid
• Resources Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Five days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-347 Demobilization Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course provides functional training on the roles and responsibilities of the Demobilization Unit Leader. Using a cradle to grave resource tracking process, students will learn and exercise techniques on how to successfully demobilize resources assigned to an incident.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill the Demobilization Unit Leader position
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Determining level of demobilization effort
• Establishing the Demobilization Process
• Coordination with other IMT entities
• Developing a demobilization plan
• Implementation of a demobilization plan
• Tracking and closing out individuals in travel status
Materials
• ICS-347 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Demobilization Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: One day
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-348 Resources Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course provides functional training on the roles and responsibilities of the Resource Unit Leader.
Target Audience
Personnel subject to filling the Resources Unit Leader position
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Initial actions
• Incident Check-in
• Documenting Resource Information
• Resource Typing
• Resource Status Displays and Tracking Systems
• Planning Process
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-348 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Resources Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-354 Facilities Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Facilities Unit Leader during all phases of the response effort. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it relates to providing logistical support to any of the incident facilities that are established. This course is exercise intensive and requires the students to demonstrate their skills while performing their many duties in support of an all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill this position on an Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities of the Facilities Unit Leader and subordinates
• Coordination with other IMT entities
• Determining what facilities need to be established and their location
• Identify level of effort (staffing) that will occur within each facility
• Develop and post facility layout
• Determining appropriate staffing levels
• How to provide safe and secure facilities
• Coordinate with finance on contract support and services
• Supervise and evaluate effectiveness of facility managers
• Demobilize and rehabilitate facilities as required
Materials
• ICS-354 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Facilities Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-354/355/356 Logistics Unit Suite
Facilities Unit Leader, Ground Support Unit Leader and Supply Unit Leader
Course Overview
This is a 5-day course that combines three stand-alone courses, ICS-354, ICS-355 and ICS-356. It focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Facilities, Ground Support and Supply Support Unit Leaders during all phases of the response effort. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it relates to the roles and responsibilities for each Unit Leader. This course is exercise intensive and requires the students to demonstrate their skills while performing their numerous duties in support of an all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill these positions on an Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities
• Coordination with other IMT entities
• Identify level of effort (staffing) that will be required
• How to estimate IMT supplies and equipment needs
• Develop and post facility layout
• How to provide safe and secure facilities and transportation
• How to develop and implement Traffic Plans
• How to establish and maintain an equipment service capability, including inspections, fueling, maintenance and repair
• Responding to multiple incident support facilities needs
• How to manage a resource requesting and ordering system
• Determine what transportation support needs are required
• Establish and maintain a property accountability system
• Coordinate with finance on contract support and services
• Supervise and evaluate effectiveness of unit personnel
• Demobilize unit personnel along with excess supplies and equipment
Materials
• ICS-354/355/356 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Facilities Unit Leader Job Aid
• Ground Support Unit Leader Job Aid
• Supply Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Five days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-355 Ground Support Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Ground Support Unit Leader during all phases of the response effort. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it relates to providing ground support to operations and incident facilities that are established. This course is exercise intensive and requires the students to demonstrate their skills while performing their numerous duties in support of an all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill this position on an Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities of the Ground Support Unit Leader along with subordinates
• Coordination with other IMT entities
• Determine what transportation support needs are required
• Identify level of effort (staffing) that will have to be provided
• Determine what incident support facilities will be established
• Determine appropriate unit staffing level
• How to provide safe and secure transportation
• How to develop and implement Traffic Plans
• Establish and maintain an equipment service capability including inspections, fueling, maintenance and repair
• Maintain records and reports
• Coordinate with finance on contract support and services
• Supervise and evaluate effectiveness of unit personnel
• Demobilize assigned resources and unit personnel
Materials
• ICS-355 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Ground Support Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: One day
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-356 Supply Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Supply Support Unit Leader during all phases of the response effort. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it relates to ordering, receiving, storing and issuing supplies and equipment to incident personnel. This course is exercise intensive and requires the students to demonstrate their skills while performing their numerous duties in support of an all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill this position on an Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities of the Supply Unit Leader and subordinate positions
• Coordination with other IMT entities
• Identify level of effort (staffing) that will be required
• How to estimate IMT supplies and equipment needs
• Responding to multiple incident support facilities needs
• How to manage a resource requesting and ordering system
• Establishing and maintaining a property accountability system
• Coordinate with finance on contract support and services
• Supervise and evaluate effectiveness of unit personnel
• Demobilize unit personnel along with excess supplies and equipment
Materials
• ICS-356 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Supply Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-357 Food Unit Leader
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Food Unit Leader during all phases of the response effort. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it relates to providing food services to incident personnel. This course is exercise intensive and requires the students to demonstrate their skills while performing their numerous duties in support of an all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill this position on an Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities of the Food Unit Leader
• Coordination with other IMT entities
• Identify level of effort (staffing) that will require food and water
• How to estimate IMT food service needs along with ordering required food stocks
• Providing services to multiple incident support facilities
• Supervise food service personnel
• Providing safe and healthy meals and water
• How to manage food providers including administering food service contracts
• Coordinate with finance on contract support and services
• Supervise and evaluate effectiveness of services provided
• Demobilize unit personnel along with food service providers
Materials
• ICS-357 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Food Unit Leader Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-402 Liaison Officer
Course Overview
This course provides functional training on the roles and responsibilities of the ICS Liaison Officer. It is intended to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of NIMS ICS as it pertains to performing the numerous duties of the Liaison Officer during all phases of the response. The course is interactive and requires the student to demonstrate the necessary skills needed to be a successful Liaison Officer.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill this position on an Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Liaison Officer and Agency Representatives
• Interaction with Command and other IMT members
• Requirements for working effectively with agency representatives
• Identifying and listing affected stakeholders
• Supporting Operations Section during Tactics Meeting and briefings
• Involvement in the Incident Action Planning process
• Incorporating agency representative issues into the planning process
• Developing and implementing a stakeholder outreach/management plan
• Communicating response information to stakeholders
• Participation during meetings, briefings and other support activities
Materials
• ICS-402 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Liaison Officer Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Three days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-404 Safety Officer
Course Overview
This course primarily focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Safety Officer assigned to an all-hazard Incident Management Team. It is designed to enhance and exercise the student’s knowledge of how to perform their duties within the framework of NIMS ICS. This course is exercise intensive and provides the student the opportunity to demonstrate the skills necessary to be an effective Safety Officer during an all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Personnel subject to filling the ICS Safety Officer position
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and responsibilities of the position and assistants
• Actions required upon arriving at an incident
• Relationships with other IMT staff
• Establishing safety systems and supporting organization
• Best practices
• Safety plans
• Supporting the Incident Action Plan development process
• Requirements for documentation
• Risk Hazard Analysis and other forms
• Meetings, briefings and support activities
• Safety Officer role in demobilization
• Safety Officer role in ensuring safe incident facilities
Materials
• ICS-404 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Safety Officer Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300
EM-ICS-410 Advanced Incident Commander
Course Overview
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the Incident Commander in an inter-agency response. It is designed to enhance the student’s ability to perform their duties using NIMS ICS. This course is designed to be very exercise intensive and provides the student the opportunity to demonstrate the skills necessary to perform as a Type 2 Incident Commander in an all-hazard response environment.
Target Audience
Individuals selected to serve as an Incident Commander on a Type 2 Incident Management Team
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Unified Command
• Interactions with staff and other stakeholders
• Incorporating executive level input
• Staffing and organizing
• Providing Incident Direction
• Participation during Meetings, Briefings and Support Activities
• IAP Preparation and Approval
• Executing Plan and Assessing Progress
• External Coordination
• Transitioning and Demobilization
Materials
• ICS-410 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Incident Commander Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-400
EM-ICS-430 Advanced Operations Section Chief
Course Overview
Upon completion of the course, the student will have demonstrated the knowledge and skills necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Operations Section Chief in the Incident Command System at the Type 2 level.
Target Audience
Individuals selected to fill the Type 2 Operations Section Chief position
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Interactions with Incident Management Team members
• Responding to Command’s direction
• Coordination and Interaction
• Managing On-Scene Operations
• Determining resource requirements
• Documenting actions
• Operational Risk Assessment Process
• Meetings, Briefings, Planning Process and Support Activities
• Demobilization
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-430 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Operations Section Chief Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-400 and ICS-339
EM-ICS-430/440 Advanced Operations and Planning Section Chief
Course Overview
Upon completion of the course, the student will have demonstrated the knowledge and skills necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Operations and Planning Section Chiefs in the Incident Command System at the Type 2 level.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill the Operations and Planning Section Chief positions
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Interactions with Incident Management Team members
• Responding to Command’s direction
• Coordination and Interaction
• Managing On-Scene Operations
• Determining resource requirements
• Documenting actions
• Operational Risk Assessment Process
• Meetings, Briefings, Planning Process and Support Activities
• Incorporating Contingency Plan information into Planning Process
• Interactions with staff and other Incident Management Team Members
• Transitioning from initial response to on-going operations
• Managing the Planning Section
• Coordination and facilitation of ICS Meetings and Briefings
• Developing the Incident Action Plan (IAP)
• Supervising Technical Specialists
• Developing Support Plans
• Event Planning
• Demobilization Process
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-430/440 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Operations Section Chief Job Aid
• Planning Section Chief Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Five days.
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300 and have response experience in the Operations and Planning Sections
EM-ICS-440 Advanced Planning Section Chief
Course Overview
Upon completion of the course, the student will have demonstrated the knowledge and skills necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Planning Section Chief in the Incident Command System at the Type 2 level.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill the Type 2 Planning Section Chief position
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Incorporating Contingency Plan information into Planning Process
• Interactions with staff and other Incident Management Team Members
• Transitioning from initial response to on-going operations
• Managing the Planning Section
• Coordination and facilitation of ICS Meetings and Briefings
• Developing the Incident Action Plan (IAP)
• Supervising Technical Specialists
• Developing Support Plans
• Event Planning
• Exercise Learning Components
Materials
• ICS-440 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Planning Section Chief Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-400, ICS-346, ICS-347 and ICS-348
EM-ICS-450 Advanced Logistics Section Chief
Course Overview
Upon completion of the course, the student will have demonstrated the knowledge and skills necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Logistics Section Chief in the Incident Command System at the Type 2 level.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill the Type 2 Logistics Section Chief position
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Logistics Section
• Initial Response and Transition to On-going Operations
• Coordination and Interaction
• Determining Logistical support and service requirements
• Developing a right size logistics organization
• Providing support to IMT customers
• Incident Resources
• Resource Requesting and Ordering
• Incident Communications
• Incident Facilities
• Involvement in meetings, briefings and other support activities
• IAP Planning Process
• Demobilization
Materials
• ICS-450 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Logistics Section Chief Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300 and have response experience in the Logistics Section
EM-ICS-460 Advanced Finance Section Chief
Course Overview
Upon completion of the course, the student will have demonstrated the knowledge and skills necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Finance Section Chief in the Incident Command System at the Type 2 level.
Target Audience
Individuals designated to fill the Type 2 Finance Section Chief position
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Finance Section
• Initial Response and Transition to On-going Operations
• Coordination and Interaction
• Determining Finance support and service requirements
• Developing a right size finance organization
• Providing support to IMT customers
• Incident Resources
• Resource Requesting and Ordering
• Incident Communications
• Incident Facilities
• Involvement in meetings, briefings and other support activities
• IAP Planning Process
• Demobilization
Materials
• ICS-460 Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Finance Section Chief Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Four days
Recommended pre-requisite: successful completion of ICS-300 and have response experience in the Finance Section
EM-ICS-THSP Incident Command System for Technical Specialist
Course Overview
This course provides the Technical Specialist with an overview of their roles and responsibilities during all phases of response. It is designed to enhance and exercise the technical specialist’s understanding of NIMS ICS as it pertains to their involvement during response. The course highlights ongoing interactions between the Technical Specialist and Incident Command throughout all phases of the all-hazard response.
Target Audience
Agency/Organization technical specialist level officials
Specific Course Topics
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Interacting with the Incident Management Team (Incident Commander)
• Providing technical guidance to the Incident Commander/Area Commander
• Interacting with multiagency coordination entities
Materials
• ICS for Technical Specialists Training Manual
• Handouts
• ICS Textbook “Beyond Initial Response”
• Incident Management Handbook
• Technical Specialist Job Aid
• Go-Kit with CD
Duration and Pre-requisite
Duration: Two days
Recommended pre-requisite: successfully completion of ICS-300
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