Course Overview
Building upon foundational ICS course, ICS-460 is designed to provide government and private industry emergency management and response personnel with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Finance/Administrative Section Chief (FSC) on an Incident Management Team for a Type 2 response. These responsibilities fall into two categories:
- managing the Finance/Administration Section personnel and
- managing the finances and administrative responsibilities during an incident.
This course is an instructor-led training that supports learning through discussion, lecture, and active participation in multiple exercises that provides a realistic, hands-on approach to mastering the skills required of a FSC.
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
Target Audience
Responders designated to fill the Type 2 Finance Section Chief position
Duration
Duration: Two days (18 hours)
Pre-requisite
Successful completion of ICS-300 and have response experience in the Finance Section
Equivalencies
- FEMA E/L E0975
- NWCG S-460