ICS-402 - Incident Command System Summary for Executives
Course Overview
This course is intended to provide a forum to discuss the agency’s strategic and executive level preparedness and response issues and challenges related to WMD/terrorism and other incidents of national significance. It is also intended to serve as a vehicle to share proven strategies and practices as well as enhanced teamwork and coordination among the agency’s senior officials responsible for emergency response to a major incident. It will be conducted as a facilitated workshop and will integrate multimedia scenarios and vignettes that highlight the key issues and facilitate discussion.
Course Objectives
To provide elected officials, goverment support staffs, and senior officials with an overview of the ICS System.
Topics
Define the role of an Executive relative to the ICS
Describe the various ways ICS can be applied
Describe the basic organization of ICS and know the functional responsibilities of the Command and General Staffs
Describe basic ICS terminology
Identify the differences between incident/event ICS organizations and the activities accomplished by area Commands, EOC’s and MACS
Describe the major responsibilities of an Executive as related to an incident/event, including the agency administrator briefing and delegation of authority
Explain the administrative, logistical, financial and reporting implications of large incident/event level considerations operations.
Audience
Elected officials, senior executive, senior managers and agency administrators with policy responsibilities, but without specific ICS or Multi-Agency Coordination System function/roles or responsibilities
NIMS Compliance
This course is NIMS compliant and meets the NIMS Baseline Training requirements for ICS-402.
Length of Course
Approximately 2-4 Hours
CEU Information
NJ EMT: n/a
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