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MGT-461 Evacuation Planning Strategies and Solutions
This eight-hour management-level course is designed to provide emergency managers, first responders, transportation professionals, security and safety professionals, and government administrators with the ability to utilize current tools and technologies to institute best practices and strategies to plan for and execute an emergency evacuation. This course discusses the hazard conditions for which an emergency evacuation could be an appropriate protective action and inform participants on resources and methods to help them better prepare for an emergency evacuation. This course will allow participants to explore data, modelling tools, and simulations that assist with the implementation of an emergency evacuation.
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Prevent Respond Mitigation Emergency Management Emergency Medical Services Fire Service Governmental Administrative Law Enforcement Public Works Citizen/Community Volunteer Transportation
Course Objective
At the end of this course, participants will be able to: Recognize evacuation needs during disasters and threat characteristics of different disasters; Describe key concepts and assess the need for evacuation in their community; Describe the evacuation planning process and transportation considerations in evacuation planning; and Evaluate the evacuation decision making process, apply evacuation planning strategies, best practices, and lessons learned by examples of recent evacuation plans
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