Emergency Planning and Response Operations

Catalog description

This course will focus on the planning and response phases of emergency management. The course will explain the importance of the planning phase and why the response is the largest phase interms of resources. The course will discuss the incident action plan and the Planning P for operations during an emergency. Resource management will be discussed in terms of legal basis for requests, contracts and memorandum of understandings, and accountability. Command and general staff positions and qualifications will be discussed as will be advanced operations in Emergency Operations Centers. Prerequisite(s): HSEC 330 and POLS 332