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Emergency Preparedness: Planning, Training, and Exercising

Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security: An Overview
MGMT X 408.801

This course provides an understanding of the key elements of emergency preparedness, elements of effectively managing any major crisis, and how to develop an emergency preparedness strategy.

Typically Available
Fall

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What you can learn.

Understand Department of Homeland Security issues and resources
Learn about protection planning for an organization's employees, customers, and physical assets
Manage compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations

About This Course

Every organization has unique vulnerabilities, assets, exposures, and employees. Learn the tools for applying a risk or vulnerability assessment to any organization and incorporating these assessments into thriving emergency plans. Emergency plans must then undergo reality checks in the form of testing, training, and exercises. This course provides you with the sets of tools and cases that lead to knowledge in structuring assessments, testing/validating, training, and planning exercises applicable inside any specific organization.
Understand the concepts of emergency preparedness and planning, the resources available to planners, the regulatory environment that planners must consider when drafting plans, and the multitudes of threats planners must factor into the planning process.

This course applies toward the following programs

certificate This comprehensive certificate offers core knowledge and skills essential for leaders in the world of emergency planning, security, protection, and emergency response.

This comprehensive certificate offers core knowledge and skills essential for leaders in the world of emergency planning, security, protection, and emergency response.