Detailed Record
Title: Using the Incident Command System at Highway Incidents
Description: Using the Incident Command System at Highway Incidents is course designed to assist novice practitioners, particularly representatives of transportation organizations and towing and recovery, obtain a working knowledge of the Incident Command System (ICS) management system and how it applies to managing highway incidents. As a training tool, this course assists agencies, jurisdictions, and regions in achieving compliance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5 (HSPD-5), Management of Domestic Incidents. HSPD-5 requires all Federal departments and agencies to make adoption of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) by State, tribal, and local organizations a condition for Federal preparedness assistance beginning in FY 2005. This course specifies the framework governing ICS organization and operations as presented in NIMS. The course also incorporates guidelines and procedures for establishing each of the major functional areas and associated elements of the ICS organization in addition to key perspectives of the public safety community, as described in the Model Procedures Guide for Highway Incidents by the National Fire Service Incident Management System Consortium.
Audience: Operations and Maintenance personnel from state and local Departments of Transportation and Public Works
CE Unit: 1.2
Price: $350
Length: 2 days
Website: http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/training/course_detail.aspx?num=FHWA-NHI-133101&cat=...
Contact:
Federal Highway Administration, National Highway Institute
4600 N. Fairfax Drive
Suite 800
Arlington, Virginia 22203
Phone: Toll free: 1-877-558-6873
Fax: (703) 235-0593
Email: NHITraining@fhwa.dot.gov
