2005-008-RES IMPLEMENTATION OF CITY OF PARIS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN

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5. Oroanizational Flexibility. Within the basic ICS structure (depicted in Attachment 3), the organization should at any given time include only what is required to meet planned objectives. The size of the organization is determined through the incident action planning process. Each element of the organization should have someone in charge; in some cases, a single individual may be in charge of more than one unit. Resources are activated as needed and resources that are no longer needed are demobilized. 6. Common Terminolooy. In ICS, common terminology is used for organizational elements, position titles, resources, and facilities. This facilitates communication among personnel from different emergency services, agencies, and jurisdictions. 7. Limited Span of Control. Span of control is the number of individuals one supervisor can realistically manage. Maintaining an effective span of control is particularly important where safety is paramount. If a supervisor is supervising fewer than 3 subordinates or more than 7, the existing organization structure should be reviewed. 8. Personnel Accountability. Continuous personnel accountability is achieved by using a resource unit to track personnel and equipment, check-in/check out procedures, ensuring each person has a single supervisor, preparing assignment lists, and maintaining logs of activities. 9. Incident Action Plan. The incident action plan, which may be verbal or written, is intended to provide supervisory personnel a common understanding of the situation and direction for future action. The plan includes a statement of objectives, organizational description, assignments, and support material such as maps. An Incident Briefing Form may be used on smaller incidents. Written plans are desirable when two or more jurisdictions are involved, when state and/or federal agencies are assisting local response personnel, or there has been significant turnover in the incident staff. 10. Inteqrated Communications. Integrated communications includes interfacing disparate communications as effectively as possible, planning for the use of all available systems and frequencies, and requiring the use of clear text in communications. 11. Resource Manaoement. Resources may be managed as single resources or organized in task forces or strike teams. The status of resources is tracked in three categories: assigned, available, and out of service. C. UNIFIED COMMAND 1. Unified Command is a variant of ICS used when there is more than one agency or jurisdiction with responsibility for the incident or when personnel and equipment from a number of different agencies or jurisdictions are responding to it. This might occur when the incident site crosses jurisdictional boundaries or when an emergency situation involves matters for which state and/or federal agencies have regulatory responsibility or legal requirements to respond to certain types of incidents. 2. ICS Unified Command is intended to integrate the efforts of multiple agencies and jurisdictions. The major change from a normallCS structure is at the top. In a Unified 7-2 Ver 1.10 2/01