21st Century FEMA Study Course: ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents (IS-200.b) - Incident Command System, Floods, Hostage Situations, HazMat, Leadership and Management

This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) independent training course manual from the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is designed to enable personnel to operate efficiently during an incident or event within the Incident Command System (ICS). ICS-200 provides training on and resources for personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within the ICS. The Emergency Management Institute developed ICS its ICS courses collaboratively with the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the United State Fire Administration’s National Fire Programs Branch. Its primary audience is persons involved with emergency planning, response or recovery efforts. This course is NIMS compliant and meets the NIMS Baseline Training requirements for IS-200.

ICS is not just a standardized organizational chart, but an entire management system. ICS can be used to manage natural hazards, technological hazards, human-caused hazards, and planned events.

All levels of government, the private sector, and nongovernmental agencies must be prepared to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from a wide spectrum of major events and natural disasters that exceed the capabilities of any single entity.

Threats from natural disasters and human-caused events, such as terrorism, require a unified and coordinated national approach to planning and to domestic incident management.

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