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Product Name: B301 - Radiological Emergency Response Operations (RERO)

Product Description

This is a 4.5 day performance-based course where the participants learn to respond to, and manage, radiological incidents. The participants, organized as response teams, operate and make decisions in a realistic exercise environment.

The course goal is to provide participants with the operational requirements and techniques for proper response and management of incidents involving various radiological hazards through a practical, performance oriented, team response approach.

Who Should Attend

Participants who are members of organized federal, state, local, or tribal radiological/hazardous materials response teams, or who are responsible for responding and possibly managing a radiation incident. Personnel assigned to such teams include fire service, law enforcement, health physicists, industrial hygienists, radiological officers, and other emergency service personnel with similar responsibilities. Federal evaluators of nuclear power plant off-site REP exercises and, state, local, tribal, and utility personnel who are involved in the development of off-site REP plans and exercises also may apply.

Methodology

The course consists of classroom lectures, to teach the concepts of team building and planning, and a series of performance-based field exercises that includes on-scene incident assessment, radiological monitoring, radiation exposure and contamination control, and reporting procedures. Because of the realism of the exercises, this course is physically challenging.

How to Enroll

National Open Enrollment System has two open enrollment periods for resident programs at EMI and the Noble Training Center. During each of the open enrollment periods all potential students from all areas of the country are eligible to apply. To enroll, complete a FEMA Form 75-5 (General Admissions Application Form). Click on the Application Form link to the left. 

FY2007 Course Schedule
Sept. 10-14 2007

Prerequisites
IS3, Radiological Emergency Management (Independent Study Course) 
IS301, Radiological Emergency Response (Independent study course)

Location

Noble Training Center 

490 Care Drive, Ft. McClellan, Alabama. 

Phone: (256) 240-7500

Course Manager

Linda S. Pressley

Telephone Number: (256) 231-0103 

E-mail: lindaS.pressley@dhs.gov.

Company Details

The Federal Emergency Management Agency - a former independent agency that became part of the new Department of Homeland Security in March 2003 - is tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from and mitigating against disasters. FEMA... more