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Institute of Emergency Management
Performance/Operations Level
Course # IEM-261
Course Title
WMD Hazardous Materials Technician Training Course (Live Agent)
Description
This is an in-depth training course in the composition, action, identification, and decontamination of weapons of WMD agents that have the potential for use in a terrorist incident. This course also includes training in the preservation of evidence at a crime scene, an overview of the international and domestic terrorist threat, and a series of practical exercises involving WMD detection, identification, and protective equipment and techniques for operating at a WMD terrorist incident.
This training course culminates with a multi-task, hands-on training exercise in the WMD (Toxic Agent) (COBRA) Training Facility.
Course Objectives
• Identify domestic and international terrorist groups, ideologies, and methods of executing terrorist acts.
• Demonstrate competent advanced knowledge of the four components of WMD, their composition, their complexities, and their effects.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform hazardous material technician WMD competencies wearing the appropriate PPE, using advanced instrumentation, techniques, and procedures.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform hazardous material technician WMD competencies in a WMD toxic environment.
OGT Training Level
Performance/Operations
Delivery
Delivered at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston , Alabama.
Course Length
24 hours
Prerequisites
• Basic Awareness Course
• Hazardous Materials Technicians attending this training must be certified as having successfully met the competencies outlined in OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120 and NFPA 472 for HAZMAT Technicians.
• Must submit the enrollment application and medical screen form you will be provided.
• Responders must have vision about 20/100 uncorrected (contact lenses permitted).
• Anyone with high blood pressure (150 over 90) may be precluded from participation in Toxic Agent Training.
• Pregnancy disqualifies responder candidates from attending this training.
Target Audience
• Hazardous Materials.
PLEASE NOTE: Idaho “First Responders” employed by federal agencies and private entities are not eligible to attend this resident course, unless you are a volunteer with an Idaho state, county or local department/agency.
Benefits
• Certificate of Completion from Center for Domestic Preparedness and Auburn University (2.4 CEUs).
Student Expectations
The course also includes a final performance test designed to ensure that the participants have attained course objectives. The comprehensive performance test requires participants to demonstrate competencies related to the course goal and objectives.