The Foundation for Incident Command is designed to complement and support the National Operational Guidance for Incident Command which is intended to assist policy writers in fire and rescue services in producing their local policies or guidance for incident command. This accompanying foundation guidance is aimed at all fire and rescue service personnel to provide the detail required for assertive, effective and safe incident command to be practised and applied.
This foundation guidance supports fire and rescue services to put in place a robust emergency response for incident command. It is an essential guide for safe systems of work required at incidents and provides essential reading for all fire and rescue service operational personnel, including firefighters and control room operators.
Fire and rescue services must make suitable and sufficient arrangements to ensure that they have systems and processes in place to prepare incident commanders at all levels to understand, interpret and apply the incident command system appropriately to every incident. This foundation guidance describes the requirements of an incident commander.
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