Incident Command Training is the organizational and management approach to incident response and crisis management operations and is based on the principles of the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS is used because:

     • It addresses all risks and all hazards.
     • It provides consistent principles, terminology, and procedures that facilitate team        building and communications within an emergency and crisis response organization        and between an organization and other involved response organizations
     • It is a mature system.
     • Although complex, it is relatively easy to learn and to apply in actual and simulated        incidents
     • It has been adopted by most government agency incident response organizations in the        United States, and is also being adopted in many foreign countries.
     • It works.