CRJ 326 - Emergency Planning

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Voc/Tech

Emergency Planning provides information that will enable persons the ability to assess their community’s hazards, determine community resources, and write an all-hazards plan to assign responsibility to various agencies who will respond during an emergency or disaster. The primary purpose of this course is to provide background information on reasons for planning and who might be involved in the process, as well as to provide a framework within which to develop a plan.
Competencies

Discuss the need for emergency planning
1. Indicate the significance of emergency planning
2. List the consequences resulting from a lack of planning
Describe the emergency planning process
1. Describe the six steps in the emergency planning process
2. Define the purpose of an emergency operations plan
Use a hazard profile to assess community vulnerability and risk
1. Describe the purpose of a hazard vulnerability analysis
2. Identify the threats and hazards effecting a community
3. Assign probability of occurrence to threats and hazards of a community
Describe the format and content of an emergency operations plan
1. List the components of a basic plan
2. Describe the difference between an annex and an appendix
Determine how to staff and organize a planning team
1. List the organizations involved in emergency planning
2. Discuss each organization’s contribution to the team
Develop an emergency operations plan
1. Compare different formats for an emergency operations plan
2. Use a template to write a basic plan based on emergency planning doctrine and guidance

Competencies Revised Date: 2019