ATS Incident Command & Management - USB Series

This is Action Training Systems' Incident Command and Management series on USB, and SkillsTrain, the authorised Action Training Systems (ATS) distributor in South Africa, supplies it locally. It sits in ATS's Officer Development category and covers the leadership, coordination and safety side of running an incident.

The series covers the command structure that sits above entry-level firefighting. It works through the Incident Safety Officer (ISO) role and responsibilities, then ISO incident-scene safety, the practical job of managing safety on the fireground. It covers the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the standardised framework that lets multiple agencies work a large incident with a shared structure and terminology. It covers Fire Service initial command, taking command in the first minutes of an incident, and expanding command, growing that structure as the incident scales up and more units arrive. It also covers the incident command system (ICS) applied to EMS operations, the medical branch of a command structure, and Active Shooter Response, where fire, EMS and law enforcement operate under shared command.

All titles use ATS's teach, test and track model: the course teaches a skill on video, checks the learner as they go, and when a question is answered incorrectly it stops, backs up and replays that section before the learner moves on, so the course teaches rather than only tests.

SkillsTrain also supplies it as a dedicated online video series, with a facilitator guide, PowerPoint and FITS quiz-generator question bank available separately. Who it is for: officers building structured incident-command competency who prefer local USB media.