Logistics Section Chief Course

Course Description

This course provides emergency responders with an overview of key duties and responsibilities of a Logistics Section Chief - Type III in a Type III AHIMT.

Delivery and Length

This classroom-based Instructor facilitated course requires a minimum of 24.5 contact hours, not including scheduled breaks. It is recommended that this course be delivered over 4 days.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate, through activities and a final exam, an understanding of the duties, 
  responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Logistics Section Chief on an AHIMT.
•  Identify the course objective and position-specific resource materials for the position of Logistics Section Chief. 
• Describe the responsibilities of the Logistics Section Chief in relationship to the 
  responsibilities of all 6 Unit Leaders within the Section. Each Unit has their own section.
• List the priorities of the Logistics Section Chief upon initial activation, describing how the Logistics Section Chief translates these priorities into action. 
• Describe considerations in activating, briefing, and assessing the capabilities of each Unit. 
• Identify the Logistics Section Chief’s coordination and communication responsibilities outside the Logistics Section. 
• Identify techniques for successfully managing personnel and demobilizing.

Prerequisites:

ICS 300

Target Audience:

Agencies and organizations are responsible to determine who within their organizations requires ICS Position Specific training, based on local incident management organizational planning.

The intended audience(s) are local- or provincial-level emergency responders who may be 
designated as LSCs on their local or provincial Incident Management Team. The materials 
were developed with the assumption that audience members may have little or no actual 
experience as a member of an All Hazards AHIMT. 
The audience may include participants from a variety of agencies and functional disciplines, including fire service, law enforcement, emergency management, public works 
departments, as well as public health organizations, medical emergency teams, and 
hospitals. 
Students are expected to have a strong operational background in their specific 
discipline so that they are able to relate course material to their specific disciplines.