Supply Unit Leader

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Course Description

This course provides emergency responders with an overview of key duties and responsibilities of a Supply Unit Leader in a Type III AHIMT.

Delivery and Length

This classroom-based Instructor facilitated course requires 25 student 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 exercises and a final exam, an understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective SPUL on an AHIMT;

• Identify course objectives and position-specific resource materials;

• Describe the function and components of the Logistics Section and the Supply Unit;

• Describe the actions and considerations necessary to mobilize the unit and gain situational awareness;

• Describe the ordering process in its entirety;

• Describe the information required when an order originates to be able to process that order;

• Complete and submit a ICS Form 259 - Resource Order;

• Receive, reconcile, and distribute supplies and equipment;

• Maintain an appropriate inventory level of supplies;

• Manage the Supply Unit’s resources; and

• Manage the demobilization of incident and Unit resources.

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 audience may include students 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.