Incident Command System 100 - Emergency Management for Agriculture
Presented by Animal Health Canada’s Emergency Management Division
Funded by the Government of Canada under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership
This live-webinar course has been designed and will be instructed by Susan Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald & Co., a seasoned expert with 35 years of experience in agricultural research, writing, and rural affairs. Susan is highly regarded for her work in biosecurity and the transportation of livestock, poultry, and deadstock—including the development of emergency management course materials, reference manuals, and post-secondary certificate programs.
Who should attend this course?
All members within Canada’s supply chain – including producers, transporters, feedlot operators, auction markets, processors, veterinarians, veterinary technologists and technicians, veterinary and laboratory office administration, hatcheries, provincial, territorial, and national associations
What will the course cover?
This course is designed for the agricultural sector and has explanations and examples that are focused on occurrences and events that require a response to protect life, property, and/or the environment – e.g., animal disease incidents.
This course will familiarize participants with the structure, basic principles, key concepts and functions, and terminology used in the Incident Command System (ICS).
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to demonstrate basic knowledge of the Incident Command System and functions with it, including how to customize scalable plans to meet the needs of and/or manage very limited or extremely complex incidents—planned and unexpected.
What does this course involve?
This course is presented in a live-webinar format that combines lecture and interactive-distance learning in a single, 6.5-hour session (including breaks).
To access this live-webinar course, participants will need:
• A computer/laptop/tablet device connected to the Internet (Wi-Fi access)
• To download the latest version of the Zoom video conferencing app at https://zoom.us/download?os=win
• An ICS-100 course workbook, which will be mailed in a hard copy format to each registrant to use in the live-webinar session.
At the end of the course, participants will be asked to complete a knowledge assessment and a course evaluation.
After successfully completing the knowledge assessment, participants will be awarded a certificate of ICS-100 course completion.
The ICS instructor will be available throughout the session to answer questions and lead discussions.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Background, objectives, basic principles of ICS
Lesson 2: Emergency response planning
Lesson 3: ICS definitions, characteristics, functions, and history
Lesson 4: ICS concepts, principles, and benefits
Lesson 5: Command and command staff functions
Lesson 6: General staff functions
Lesson 7: Facilities and resources
Lesson 8: Common responsibilities
Lesson 9: Examples of applicability to agriculture, knowledge assessment, and course evaluation
If you have any questions, please contact us by email at kmaki_adair@animalhealthcanada.ca.
Thank you for your interest in this course. We’re looking forward to working and learning with you!