S440 - Planning Section Chief

Reviewed: 2001     Hours: 20

Course Description:

This course is designed to meet a portion of the training needs of the planning section chief type 2 (PSC2). Topics include: information gathering, strategies, meetings and briefings, incident action plan (IAP), interactions, forms, documents, supplies, demobilization, and an optional technology section. In the final exercise the students observe a simulated planning meeting, and use the information derived to find errors in an incident action plan (IAP). Students must pass the unit tests and the final exercise to successfully complete the course.

Objectives:

• The student will display the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the planning section chief type 2 (PSC2).

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as a planning section chief type 2 (PSC2).

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead and unit instructors must be qualified planning section chief type 2s (PSC2).

Also see Instructor Certification at the beginning of the Field Manager's Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Qualified as a Situation Unit Leader (SITL) and as a Resources Unit Leader (RESL).

Successful completion of pre-course work.

* NFES 2042, ICS Incident Planning at Work referred to in this course has been deleted from the Publications Management System and replaced with the DVD "Planning Process for All Risk Incidents" NFES 2952. Please use NFES 2952 as a replacement for NFES 2042.

Offer Level:
Regional, state, or area

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 12-17-2009.

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