Authority is delegated to another person
Staging Area
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Lead national command structure
Incident Commander
Liaison officer assistant
ICS could be used to manage a large sporting event or a visit from a foreign dignitary.
The ICS 201 (Incident Briefing) form provides the Incident (Unified) Command and staff with basic information regarding the incident and the resources currently allocated. It also acts as the permanent record of the initial response.
•Typically required on all working incidents
•Typically started upon incident alert
The Incident commander has overall management of all aspects of a specific incident, especially where there is no overlap with other jurisdictions or other functional agencies.
A single IC may also be designated to coordinate with other jurisdictions and agencies, if they agree to it. Otherwise, a multi-agency or multi-jurisdiction incident would have a "Unified command" (UC) comprised of representative from each agency or jurisdiction involved.
An analogous function might be a Fire Chief at a fire incident: he or she establishes the objectives as a basis for incident action planning.
The incident command structure has been in use for over 40 years in managing large operations such as major forest fires.
In large disasters there may be a hierarchy of Incident Commanders, where various ICs (or UCs) handle specific incidents, and "Area Command" coordinates competing priorities for limited resources among separate incidents.
the term 'resources' refers to all of the following items