ICS 40: Advanced for Comm and and General Staff -Complex Incidents

• Impacts to life, property and the economy; community responder safety; potential hazardous materials; whether in other environmental influences; likelihood of cascading events; racial crime scenes (including terrorism);• Political sensitivity, external influences, and media relations;• Area involved, jurisdictional boundaries; and, • Availability of resources

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Common Terminology: you come in terminology helps define organizational functions, incident facilities, resource descriptions and position titles.

Answer The process of moving the responsibility for incident command to one Incident Commander to another is called transfer of command. Transfer of command is to be expected on an expanding incident and does not reflect on the competency of the current Incident Commander.

Answer Step 1: The incoming Incident Commanders should, if at all possible, personally form an assessment of the incident situation with the exist patent Incident Commander. Step 2: The incoming Incident Commander must be adequately briefed. The briefing must be by the current Incident Commander, and take place face to face if possible. Everything must cover the following: · Incident history (what is happen)· Priorities and objectives· Current plan· Resource assignments· Incident organization· Resources ordered/needed· Facilities established· At the status of communications· Any constraints or limitations· Incident potential· Delegation of authority Use the ICS Form 201 for assistance because it provides a written record of the incident as of the time to prepared. Step 3: After the incident briefing, the Incident Commander you determine an appropriate time for transfer of command. Step 4: at the appropriate time, notice of change of an incident command should be made to: · Agency headquarters (through dispatch)· General staff members (if designated)· Command staff members (designated)· All personnelStep 5: the incoming Incident Commander may view the previous Incident Commander and another assignment on the incident. There are several advantages to this: · The initial Incident Commander retains firsthand knowledge of the incident site· This strategy allows the initial Incident Commander to observe the progress of the incident and to gain experience.

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A key principle is its flexibility. The ICS organization may be expanded easily from a very small size for routine operations to a large organization are all handling catastrophic events. Flexibility does not mean that the ICS feature of common terminology is suspended. Note that the flexibility is allowed within the standard ICS organizational structure and position titles.

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Organizational Level Title Support Position Incident Command / Incident Commander /Deputy Command Staff / Officer / Assistant General Staff (Section) / Chief / Deputy Branch / Director / Deputy Division/Group / Supervisor / N/A Unit / Leader / Manager Strike Team/Task Force/ Ldr /Single Resource Boss

Command Staff: The Command Staff consists of the Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, and Liaison Officer. They report directly to the Incident Commander.

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That organizational level having functional, geographical, or jurisdictional responsibility for the major part of the incident operations. The Branch level is organizationally between Section and Division/Group in the operations Section, and between the Section and the Unit in the Logistics. Branches are identified by the use, by function, or by jurisdictional name.

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That organizational level having responsibility for operations within a defined geographic area. The Division level is organizationally between this right team and the Branch.

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Groups are established to divide the incident into functional areas of law for ration Groups are located between Branches (when activated) and resources in the Operations Section.

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That organization element having functional responsibility for specific incident, Logistics or Finance/Administration activity.

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A Group of resources with common communications and a leader that may be pre-established and sent to an incident, or formed at an incident.

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Specific combinations of the same kind and type of resources, with common communications and a leader.

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An individual piece of equipment and its personnel complement, or established crew or team of individuals with an identified work supervisor that can be used on an incident.

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The Incident Commander is technically not part of either the General or Command Staff. The Incident Commander is responsible for overall incident management, including:
• Ensuring clear authority and knowledge of agency policy • Ensuring incident safety • Establishing an incident command post • Obtaining a briefing from prior incident commander and/or assessing the situation • Establishing immediate priorities • Determining and cement objectives and strategy (i. e. S. ) to befall • Establishing the level organization needed and continuously monitoring the rations and affect the lives of the organization • Managing planning meetings as required • Approving and implementing them in an action plan • Coordinating to these of the Command and General Staff • Approving requests for additional resources or for the release of resources • Approving the use of participants, volunteers, and exhilarated personnel • Authorizing the release of information to the news media • Ordering the mobilization of the incident when appropriate • Ensuring incident after action reports are completed • Authorizing information release to the media