November 25 - 30, 2018 |
March 10 - 15, 2019 | View more
Course description
Want to learn how to do strategic community risk reduction at the station level? Here is the course for you. This course is designed for company officers who want to learn how to conduct a risk assessment of their service area. This will lead you to develop an action plan with effective intervention strategies and activities targeting a specific risk. You will learn the steps to follow to do risk reduction in an organized and planned process to keep you on track at the station level. This course is open not only to company officers but firefighters, paramedics, fire and life educators, and administrative personnel, as well as fire officers who want to learn about community risk reduction and how they can support the company officer in station based risk reduction.
Selection criteria
• Company officers who have station-based responsibility for a service area.
• Consideration also given to chief officers, firefighters, paramedics, fire and life educators, and administrative personnel who have an interest in learning about community risk reduction to support station-based risk reduction.
• Preference will be given to departments who send teams. The team must be at least two people; one of which must be a company officer.
Prerequisites
ICS 100 level and ICS 200 level training. Preferred courses are Q462 and Q463 available through NFA Online at www.usfa.fema.gov/training/nfa/courses/online.html Chief's signature attests that the applicant has completed required training.
