Supervisory manager
Middle manager
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Continuing Professional Development hours on courses

Incident Command
Target audience
Crew and watch managers:
- Retained Duty System (RDS) staff selected as potential crew managers
- Wholetime personnel selected as potential crew managers
- Crew managers new to role
- Experienced role holders
Aim
To enable delegates to manage operational incidents
Subject areas
To enable delegates to understand:
- Understand incident command system
- Develop skills in hazard recognition and risk control at operational incidents
- Balance moral and peer pressure against corporate and operational risk when making decisions
- Understand the “safe person concept” and how to develop safe systems of work at operational incidents
Delivery
The course will be delivered via theoretical and practical sessions and group work. Learning will be developed using scenarios that RDS staff face in their day-to-day roles along with 3-D model, flip chart, PowerPoint presentation, group discussion and equipment associated with the incident command system
Duration
1 day
National Occupational Standards (NOS)
WM3, WM7, FF3, FF4, FF5
IPDS Module
008
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