The table provides a recommended ICS training matrix. 
Higher level ICS courses are problematic for healthcare providers and others to attend due to the length of a combined ICS 300 and ICS 400 course being up to five days of training.
Overview: We have developed an option for consideration of condensed and practical ICS training. This course is designed to meet certain training objectives and skill competencies usually reserved for the ICS 300 and ICS 400 courses. Unfortunately to take both courses involves 4-5 days and necessary or not the time commitment puts it out of the reach of a many organizations.
The program objectives include:
- ICS Fundamentals Review
- Describe how Unified Command functions on a multi-jurisdiction or multiagency incident.
- Given a simulated situation, demonstrate roles and reporting relationships under a Unified Command that involves agencies within the same jurisdiction and under multijurisdiction conditions
- Describe types of agency(s) policies and guidelines that influence management of incident or event activities.
- Describe the process for developing incident objectives, strategies, and tactics.
- Describe the steps in transferring and assuming incident command.
- As part of an exercise, develop incident objectives for a simulated incident.
- Discuss major planning steps including logistical concerns, cost-benefit analysis, understanding the situation, developing and implementing the plan, and evaluating the plan.
- Explain the criteria for determining when the Incident Action Plan (IAP) should be prepared in writing.
- Describe the role and use of ICS forms and supporting materials included in an IAP for effective incident/event management. • Describe the strategy meeting, tactics meeting, planning meeting, operational period briefing, and team meeting. • Given a scenario, describe appropriate strategies and tactics to meet incident objectives. • Describe how ICS 215A, Safety Analysis, is used with ICS 215 to mitigate hazards in tactical operations. • Participate in a planning meeting using the planning process and develop a written IAP for an incident/event using the appropriate ICS forms and supporting materials.
- Using the IAP, conduct an operational period briefing.
- List the principal factors often found in or related to major and/or complex incidents/ events.
- List the four expansion options for incident event organization and describe the conditions under which they would be applied.
- Demonstrate, through an exercise, how to apply the various options related to major or complex incident management.
- Define Area Command.
- List the principal advantages of using Area Command.
- Describe how, when, and where Area Command would be established.
- Describe the Area Command organization.
- Identify six primary functional responsibilities of Area Command.
- Given a scenario, develop an Area Command organization.
Target Audience: Any agency or organization, civilian or military desiring to move beyond NIMS compliance and actually prepare their staff and organization the incident management skills necessary for a major event.
Duration: This course is covered in 16 hours broken up any number of ways to help attendance as determined by the sponsoring organization. Scenarios will be used during the course that are derived from the jurisdictional Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA). This allows students to gain practical experience ideally suited to their risks and vulnerabilities.