NCBRT: A Coordinated Response to Food Emergencies: Practice & Execution
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Course Description: This course will provide responders with training on all-hazards food emergency response procedures with an emphasis on enhancing communication to facilitate the response effort. For the purposes of this course, food emergencies may include terrorism, naturally occurring events, or accidents that impact the food chain with the potential for mass consequences. The course will focus on federal, state, and local agency communication and coordination during the response to and recovery from such emergencies.
Scope: The course will be a performance-level, instructor-led course that addresses effective communication and coordination between food emergency response personnel during an incident response. Participants will apply the knowledge and skills they have learned in the course by participating in practical exercises.
Target Audience: The target audience for this course includes federal, state, and local food investigators/inspectors, food safety and defense personnel responsible for food incident response, food safety program managers, personnel from state Emergency Management Agencies, the state Homeland Security Office, state and local EPA, Public Health
epidemiologists, public health personnel, environmental health professionals, veterinary epidemiologists, school program officials from state Departments of Education, Cooperative Extension Service personnel, laboratory staff, import officers, Department of Defense (DoD) personnel responsible for food defense, food industry personnel responsible for food safety, and public information officers (PIOs) from the various agencies represented.
Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with their respective roles and responsibilities with regard to food emergencies.
Course Length: This course is designed for presentation over two days. Beginning and ending time for instruction can be adjusted to accommodate local requirements at the training location. However, the schedule should permit one 10-minute break approximately every hour and a one hour lunch break. Total instructional time is 16 hours for 10 standard modules.
Questions: Contact Patty Myers in the AFDO Office at 717-757-2888 or pmyers@afdo.org.
Courses Held:
February 24-25, 2010, Battle Creek, MI [View Press Release]
Description courtesy of NCBRT