Leadership and Mgmt.
Delegation of Authority and Mgmt. by Objectives
Functional Areas and Positions
Organizational Flexibility
Briefings and Transfer of Command
100
Means that each individual involved in incident operations will be assigned - and will report - to only one supervisor.
What is Unity of Command?
100
The right or obligation to act on behalf of a department, agency or jurisdiction.
What is authority?
100
This person has overall management responsibility delegated by the appropriate jurisdictional authority.
Who is the Incident Commander?
100
This key principle of ICS organization allows it to be expanded easily from a very small size for routine operations to a larger organization capable of handling catastrophic events.
What is flexibility?
100
This type of briefing is delivered to individual resources or crews assigned to operational tasks and/or work at or near the incident site.
What is a field-level briefing?
200
Allows all responsible agencies to manage an incident together by establishing a common set of incident objectives and strategies.
What is Unified Command?
200
The three incident objective priorities listed in order from most important to least important.
What are life safety, incident stabilization and property preservation?
200
This section of the general staff is responsible for communications, medical support and food for incident personnel.
What is the Logistics Section?
200
This helps: - Identify resource requirements - Determine if the existing management structure is appropriate
What is a complexity analysis?
200
Transfer of command may take place for all of the following reasons except: A.) A jurisdiction is legally required to take command B.) Incident complexity changes C.) Extended duration of the event D.) The Incident Commander has no sense of style
What is - The Incident Commander has no sense of style.
300
This type of communication is used for giving and recieving work orders and also when requesting support and resources.
What is formal communication?
300
This covers an operational period and includes: - What must be done. - Who is responsible. - How information will be communicated. - What is the procedure if someone of injured.
What is an Incident Action Plan?
300
This form might include a map, incident objectives, summary of current actions and the status of resources.
What is the Incident Briefing Form (ICS Form 201)?
300
Wild Card - The first building built upon the site of the future Mount Clemens was a __________.
What is distillery
300
True or False: Transfer of command must always take place face to face.
What is False - Whenever possible, it should take place face-to-face. I t may be done by other methods if necessary.
400
This is limited to between 3 and 7 subordinates.
What is span of control?
400
Allows local jurisdictions, states and federal agencies to provide aid to each other through local agreements, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact and the National Response Framework.
What is mutual aid?
400
Wild Card - This EH employee was Director Of Quality Assurance and Sanitation at Chathams before coming to MCHD, owns over 150 neckties and has a collection of wood and ceramic ducks.
Who is Ken Siekierski?
400
The incident type (1,2,3,4 or 5) corresponds to both the number of resources required and the anticipated incident ________?
What is duration?
400
This type of briefing is delivered to resources assigned to nonoperational and support tasks at the Incident Command Post or Base.
What is a staff-level briefing?
500
Name the titles of the three command positions directly under the Incident Commander.
What are the Public Information Officer, Liaison Officer and Safety Officer?
500
This is the process of granting authority to carry out specific functions
What is delegation of authority?
500
True or False - The person with the highest rank will always be designated as the Incident Commander.
What is False?
500
True of False: As an ICS organization expands to handle an increasingly complex event, activiated elements of the ICS structure can be left vacant until a person can be found to fill that position.
What is False. Each activated element must have a person in charge.
500
Wild Card - Macomb County is named for General Aexander Macomb, who was a decorated veteran of which war.
What is The War of 1812?
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