Description:

Studies incident management processes for emergency response at the disaster management level. Students discuss advanced command structure and components, pre-incident planning, and application of management processes to a variety of large-scale emergency situations. Prerequisite: FS 210.

Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Specify and describe the variety of hazards that exist
• Recognize the need for a structure within which to manage emergency related activities.
• Define common emergency terms and distinguish between Emergency and DisasterVulnerability and Risk, and Emergency management and civil defense
• Indicate the potential and actual hazards in their own communities and understand how hazards at the State, regional, and national level may affect their communities.
• Identify the need for development and periodic updating of a hazard analysis at the community level.
• Explain the four phases of the emergency management process –
• Mitigation
• Preparedness
• Response
• Recovery
• Describe the evolution of emergency management and civil defense and distinguish between the two functions.
• Explain the roles of individuals and organizations at the local, state, and federal government levels as they relate to one another in emergency management.
• Identify the primary functions of an EOC/ECC.
• Discuss the advantages of a centralized, formally designated operations center facility.
• Analyze the importance of managing the information and message flow during an actual emergency situation.
• Set up a facility as an expedient operations center when no formal facility is available.
• Explain the value of teamwork in the emergency management process.
• Compare interactions within an emergency management team with interactions within other teams and develop generalizations about similarities and differences.
• Identify and explain the characteristics of an emergency management team and describe team goals and objectives, time constraints, and criteria for effectiveness.
• Explain how the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and the Incident Command System (ICS) augment teamwork during a disaster.
• Identify the functional groups within the emergency management team and identify the roles of team members.
• Draw conclusions about individual behavior and its effect on the nature of group interactions and achievement of group goals.
• Describe the positive aspects of conflict in an emergency management team and methods for resolving differences in a useful manner.
• Describe and apply the key elements of an Emergency Operations Plan by:
• reviewing the philosophy that underlies the planning process and formal plan
• applying state and federal guidelines to assess the adequacy of an existing plan, and
• defining the actions to be taken to improve plan short comings.
• Define the interrelationship among local, state, and federal agencies in the emergency management process.
• Recognize activities that comprise the four phases of emergency management using an integrated approach.