Course Overview
Building upon the basic foundations of the Incident Command System, ICS-430 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 Operations Section Chief (OSC) on an Incident Management Team at the Type 2 level. These responsibilities fall into two categories:
- response to the incident and command needs of the incident; and
- effectively fulfilling the position responsibilities of an Incident Commander on an ICS Incident Management Team.
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 an OSC.
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
Target Audience
Responders selected to fill the Type 2 Operations Section Chief position
Duration
Duration: Three days (22 hours)
Pre-requisite
Successful completion of ICS-300
Recommended: successful completion of ICS-339
Equivalencies
- FEMA E/L0958
- NWCG S-430
- USCG ICS-430