(NE-001) Chemical/ Biological Warfare Defense Assessment

    (1 day)

    Description

    Recent and ongoing international situations have demonstrated the need for domestic agencies as well as international companies to take steps to protect its employees around the world from the real possibility of involvement, directly and indirectly in terrorist and regional conflicts involving the increased use of chemical and biological warfare agents.

    This session will inform your organization of the present state of the art with respect to regional and terrorist capabilities to inflict horrendous damage and cause massive human suffering with in any locality or region world wide. This assessment involves the interaction of CW hazards, agencies and the environment. Vulnerability assessments provide fundamental inputs to CW emergency management decisions within your organization.

    Aim

    Understand real and potential capabilities with regard to C&B W agents.

    Topics

    • Chemical agents and their effects.
    • Personal defensive equipment and techniques
    • Biological agents and their effects.
    • Personal defensive equipment and techniques

    Learning outcomes

    Participants will:

    • understand the state of Chemical and Biological Warfare
    • capable of identifying relationships between the agents and the hazards presented
    • introduced to concepts of assessment of vulnerability of personnel in the field

    (NE-002) Vulnerability Assessment

    (1 day)

    Description

    Vulnerability assessment involves the interaction of hazards, agencies and the environment. Vulnerability assessments provide fundamental inputs to CW emergency management decisions within your organization.

    Aim

    To develop capability in vulnerability assessment.

    Topics

    • Emergency management
    • Public administration contexts
    • The identification of interactions between hazards, agencies and the environment
    • The analysis of interactions between hazards, agencies and the environment
    • The assessment of interactions between hazards, agencies and the environment

    Learning outcomes

    Participant should be able to:

    • outline the importance of assessing vulnerability
    • identify relationships between hazards, agencies and the environment
    • analyze relationships between hazards, agencies and the environment
    • determine the vulnerability of agencies and the environment

    (NE-003) Senior Executives Briefing

    (1/2 day)

    It is often difficult for busy senior managers to attend long emergency management courses. This activity is designed to provide key information in a compact format over a relatively short period.

    Aim

    The activity is designed to brief participants on current CW emergency management issues and trends.

    Guidance for Attendance

    This activity is designed for senior managers of departments and emergency management personnel who would coordinate with local and regional police forces, State Emergency Services, local government and others with key responsibilities for the development and implementation of government emergency management policies in various regions of the globe.

    (NE-004) CW Defensive Training for Field Personnel

    (2 1/2 days)

    Description

    "25 personnel Max. per course"

    Personnel will learn to react in a timely and effective manner to protect themselves and company assets with in the context of CW attacks and contamination.

    Aim

    To develop initial expertise in using defensive equipment.

    Topics

    • Equipment available reaction principles
    • Personal needs
    • Effects of CW disasters on individuals
    • Strategies for survival

    Learning Outcomes

    Participants will be capable of:

    • recognizing signs and symptoms of a chemical or biological agent attack;
    • competently react to indications and proficiently protect themselves and others;
    • analyze strategies for survival.

    (NE-005) Introduction to Company Defense Planning

    (1 day)

    Rationale

    Strategic guidance indicates that while there is no immediately identifiable threat to North America, there is potential for conflicts to develop in other areas of the globe with little or no warning. International situations change continually and degraded at a moments notice. It is in your company / agency and employees best interests to be capable of reacting to a myriad of hazards and have a built in approach to emergency management if necessary should a region of the globe where your people are become involved in a escalated conflict.

    Aim

    The aim of this course is to introduce participants to company defense concepts, procedures and skills.

    Objectives

    The course will enable participants to:

    • consider company defense hazards in accordance with global strategic environment;
    • develop company defense concepts and organizational structures for short warning conflict; and
    • develop company defense plans based on existing emergency Participant plans for short warning conflict.

    Key Subject Areas

    • Global strategic environment
    • Company defense policy and planning
    • Company defense warning
    • Shelter
    • Evacuation
    • Geneva Protocols
    • Unexploded ordnance reconnaissance
    • Nuclear Biological and Chemical defense
    • Civil defense - military cooperation

    (NE-006) Planning

    (1 1/2 days)

    Description

    Planning examines methods and processes which can be undertaken to improve emergency management.

    Aim

    To develop planning capabilities in emergency management.

    • Intervention strategies
    • Planning processes
    • Guidelines for plans
    • Evaluating planning

    Learning outcomes

    Participants will be able to:

    • outline intervention strategies
    • describe the determination of intervention strategies
    • outline planning processes
    • outline a planning guideline
    • describe the evaluation of planning processes

    (NE-007) CW Emergency Coordination Centre Management

    (1 day)

    Description

    CW Emergency Coordination Centres provide a focus for the management of information and resources and the coordination of activities to meet company needs.

    Aim

    To develop capability as a member of an emergency management coordination centre.

    Topics

    • Key issues
    • Management structures
    • Multi-agency centres
    • The intelligence process
    • Information management
    • Resource management

    Learning outcomes

    Participant will be able to:

    • identify the key issues for which planning is required;
    • describe a resource management system;
    • apply resources to achieve objectives;
    • describe an information management system; and
    • process information to achieve objectives.

    (NE-008) Plan Implementation

    (2 days)

    Description

    Plan implementation is about systems of information and resource management which support emergency management strategies.

    Aim

    To develop capability in the execution of plans.

    Topics

    • Contexts and conditions
    • Planned actions
    • Problem solving and decision making
    • Assessment and review

    Learning outcomes

    Participant will be able to:

    • identify conditions that require plan implementation;
    • outline a range of planned actions associated with the establishment of
    • management structures and communication networks;
    • outline a range of planned actions associated with the management of information and resources; and
    • analyze processes of assessment and review.

    (NE-009) Evacuation Management (Field Level)

    (1 1/2 days)

    Description

    Evacuation management is a complex process involving crucial decisions, various phases and a multiplicity of issues.

    Aim

    To develop expertise in evacuation management.

    Topics

    • Phases of evacuation
    • Decision to evacuate
    • Warning
    • Withdrawal
    • Shelter
    • Return
    • Issues

    Learning outcomes

    Participants will be able to:

    describe issues related to the management of the phases of evacuation review evacuation management guidelines.