Course Offerings
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Emergency Response Training (HERT) Basic – Indirect Delivery
This course is designed to provide guidance to hospital staff and others who may be required to support the hospital response to an MCI involving contamination as a result of a natural, accidental, or intentional incident.
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HazMat for First Responder/Receiver, Awareness Level (4 Hour OSHA)
This course provides awareness level to individuals likely to witness or discover a hazardous substance release and who have been trained to initiate an emergency response sequence by notifying the proper authorities of the release.
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IS-100.c – Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS-100)
This course provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System.
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IS-200.c –Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response (ICS-200)
This course reviews the Incident Command System (ICS), provides the context for ICS within initial response, and supports higher level ICS training.
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AWR-140: Introduction to Radiological/Nuclear WMD Operations
This course— aligns with the Awareness level and Operations level competencies of NFPA 472 - Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents.
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Stop-the-Bleed
The person next to a bleeding victim may very well be the one who’s most likely to save him or her from bleeding to death.
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G-191: Incident Command System/Emergency Operations Center Interface
This course works best when delivered to Incident Command System and Emergency Operations Center personnel from the same community.
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I-300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents (ICS 300)
IS-300 is a three-day program that delivers ICS curricula for the expanding incident.
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PER902: Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents
This course provides healthcare facility personnel with the knowledge and skills required to perform decontamination operations for mass trauma patients exposed to a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazard.
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Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS)
The Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS) Provider Course teaches comprehensive knowledge in the medical management of patients exposed to hazardous materials. The focus is on systematic response for the medical management on chemical incidents (incl. nerve agents). Incidents with exposure to biological and radiological events are also addressed.
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IS.700.b: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System (ICS 700)
This course provides an overview of the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
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IS.400: Advanced Incident Command System for Command and General Staff
This course provides training for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS).
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AWR118: Biological Incidents Awareness (TtT)
This course provides a brief overview of biological incidents that have occurred in the recent past; biological incidents that are naturally occurring, could be accidentally released, or could be used deliberately.
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PER-243: Personal Radiation Detector Course
The course provides training and extensive hands-on practice with real radioactive material.
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MGT440: Enhanced Sports & Special Events Incident Management
The course is a scenario-based practicum of three primary areas within the field of sports and special events management: a) incident management, b) crowd and evacuation management, and c) crisis information management.
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MGT-404: Sports & Special Events Incident Management
The Sports and Special Events Incident Management course develops athletic department staff, facility management personnel, campus public safety personnel, emergency response supervisors, and others.
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PER-211: Medical Management of CBRNE Events
The Medical Management of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Events course prepares the participant to plan for effectively, appropriately, and safely, and respond to, a CBRNE incident using an all-hazards approach.
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CTI-502:Evacuation of Facilities in Disaster Systems (eFINDS)
The New York State Evacuation of Facilities in Disasters Systems (eFINDS) is the patient/resident tracking application housed on the Health Commerce System (HCS).
Emergency Response Training (HERT) Basic – Indirect Delivery
Course Description: This course is designed to provide guidance to hospital staff and others who may be required to support the hospital response to an MCI involving contamination as a result of a natural, accidental, or intentional incident. The course enables the healthcare provider to be able to apply the relationships between the federal response requirements, ICS, and how a HERT operates within the incident command methods established by these requirements. The course concentrates on criteria for the location of the HERT, and the units and strike teams assigned as part of a HERT, to detail the operational methods and requirements of those organizations. This course helps prepare facilities and agencies to safely and effectively assist and process MCI victims into a healthcare facility while protecting the facility from contamination. This is a purely didactic course containing no practical exercises.
Course Length: 8 hours
Students per class: 20-25
HazMat for First Responder/Receiver, Awareness Level (4 Hour OSHA)
Course Description: This course provides awareness level to individuals likely to witness or discover a hazardous substance release and who have been trained to initiate an emergency response sequence by notifying the proper authorities of the release. They would take no further action beyond notifying the authorities of the release.
Students at the awareness level shall have sufficient training or have had sufficient experience to objectively demonstrate competency in the following areas:
An understanding of what hazardous substances are and the risks associated with them in an incident
An understanding of the potential outcomes associated with an emergency created when hazardous substances are present
The ability to recognize the presence of hazardous substances in an emergency
The ability to realize the
Course Length: 4 hours
Students per class: 20-25
IS-100.c – Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS-100)
Course Description: This course provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Explain the principles and basic structure of the Incident Command System (ICS).
Describe the NIMS management characteristics that are the foundation of the ICS.
Describe the ICS functional areas and the roles of the Incident Commander and Command Staff.
Describe the General Staff roles within ICS.
Identify how NIMS management characteristics apply to ICS for a variety of roles and discipline areas.
Course Length: 2 hours
Students per class: 20-25
IS-200.c –Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response (ICS-200)
Course Description: This course reviews the Incident Command System (ICS), provides the context for ICS within initial response, and supports higher level ICS training. This course provides training on, and resources for, personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within ICS.
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Describe the course objectives and summarize basic information about the Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS):
Describe how the NIMS Management Characteristics relate to Incident Command and Unified Command.
Describe the delegation of authority process, implementing authorities, management by objectives, and preparedness plans and objectives.
Identify ICS organizational components, the Command Staff, the General Staff, and ICS tools.
Describe different types of briefings and meetings.
Explain flexibility within the standard ICS organizational structure.
Explain transfer of command briefings and procedures.
Use ICS to manage an incident or event.
Course Length: 16 hours
Students per class: 20-25
AWR-140: Introduction to Radiological/Nuclear WMD Operations
Course Description: This course— aligns with the Awareness level and Operations level competencies of NFPA 472 - Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents provides fundamental knowledge in threat or incident recognition, protective measures, notifications, and incident area management.
Course Length: 6 hours
Students per class: 20-25
Stop-the-Bleed
Course Description: The person next to a bleeding victim may very well be the one who’s most likely to save him or her from bleeding to death. By learning how to STOP THE BLEED®, you’ll gain the ability to recognize life-threatening bleeding and act quickly and effectively to control bleeding once you learn three quick techniques. Take the STOP THE BLEED® training course and become empowered to make a life-or-death difference when a bleeding emergency happens.
Course Length: 3 hours
Students per class: 20-25
G-191: Incident Command System/Emergency Operations Center Interface
Course Description: This course works best when delivered to Incident Command System and Emergency Operations Center personnel from the same community. The course provides an opportunity for participants to begin developing an ICS/EOC interface for their community. The course reviews ICS and EOC responsibilities and functions and depends heavily on exercises and group discussions to formulate the interface.
Course Length: 8 hours
Students per class: 20-25
I-300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents (ICS 300)
Course Description: IS-300 is a three-day program that delivers ICS curricula for the expanding incident. It will address a review of NIMS; ICS introduction; ICS single resource; unified command; assessment; planning; resource management; demobilization; complex incidents; incident area command and multi-agency coordination. The program combines lecture and interactive exercises. Participants will be provided with the necessary information to develop and implement a command structure that will help manage any emergency.
Course Length: 24 hours
Students per class: 20-25
PER902: Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents
Course Description: This course provides healthcare facility personnel with the knowledge and skills required to perform decontamination operations for mass trauma patients exposed to a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazard. The course addresses healthcare facility patient decontamination operation requirements, set up and operation of a healthcare facility patient decontamination capability, operating in required personal protective equipment, and the performance of patient triage and lifesaving interventions.
Hospital Emergency Response Training (HERT) is a three-day course designed to provide medical operation guidance to hospitals, emergency medical services (EMS), healthcare facility personnel, and others who may become involved in a mass casualty incident (MCI). The course provides the healthcare emergency receiver with an understanding of the relationship between a hospital Incident Command System (ICS), a scene Incident Commander and other incident management systems used by municipal Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs). The course also provides guidance for Hospital Emergency Response Team design, development, and training. This is a hands-on course which culminates with small and large groups practical application.
Course Length: 24 hours
Students per class: 20-25
Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS)
Course Description: The Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS) Provider Course teaches comprehensive knowledge in the medical management of patients exposed to hazardous materials. The focus is on systematic response for the medical management on chemical incidents (incl. nerve agents). Incidents with exposure to biological and radiological events are also addressed.
The two-day AHLS Provider Course is the most comprehensive medical training program, teaching critical know-how needed to evaluate and treat victims exposed to chemical spills, toxic terrorism, and other threats.Training for interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to care for patients exposed to hazardous materials and dangerous goods. Join the worldwide community of more than 16,500 healthcare professionals from 64 countries and become a verified AHLS Provider, prepared to face the medical challenges of hazmat incidents.
The AHLS certificate is internationally approved. Course participants will be registered with the international AHLS-Provider-database.
Course Length: 16 hours
Students per class: 20-25
IS.700.b: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System (ICS 700)
Course Description: This course provides an overview of the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The National Incident Management System defines the comprehensive approach guiding the whole community - all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and the private sector - to work together seamlessly to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the effects of incidents. The course provides learners with a basic understanding of NIMS concepts, principles, and components.
Course Length: 3 Hours
Students per class: 20-25
IS.400: Advanced Incident Command System for Command and General Staff
Course Description: This course provides training for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). This course expands upon information covered in ICS 100 through ICS 300 courses, which are prerequisites for the ICS 400 course.
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Explain how major incidents engender special management challenges.
Describe the circumstances in which an Area Command is established.
Describe the circumstances in which Multi-Agency Coordination Systems are established.
Course Length: 16 hours
Students per class: 20-25
AWR118: Biological Incidents Awareness (TtT)
Course Description: This course provides a brief overview of biological incidents that have occurred in the recent past; biological incidents that are naturally occurring, could be accidentally released, or could be used deliberately; the typical course of disease and how that may vary in a deliberate incident; an overview of biological agents as terrorist weapons; and methods of protection from biological agents (with an emphasis on protection using methods and equipment readily available to emergency responders and the general public).
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Describe the key success factors in reacting effectively to a biological incident
Discuss basic facts about biological incidents
Recognize signs that suggest a biological incident is taking place
Apply self-protection principles during a biological incident
Course Length: 9 hours
Students per class: 20-25
PER-243: Personal Radiation Detector Course
Course Description: The course provides training and extensive hands-on practice with real radioactive material. PRDs will be issued for student use during course: At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Detect and locate the presence of radiation and/or radiological material
Identify and distinguish among false alarms due to background radiation alarms due to legitimate causes, and alarms due to illicit radiological/nuclear material
Measure the approximate radiation level that generated the alarm upon detecting, locating, an
Course Length: 8 hours
Students per class: 20-25
MGT440: Enhanced Sports & Special Events Incident Management
Course Description: The course is a scenario-based practicum of three primary areas within the field of sports and special events management: a) incident management, b) crowd and evacuation management, and c) crisis information management. The course is intended to prepare emergency responders as well as event management personnel, concessionaries, athletic department personnel, and elected and chief executives who would be involved in the preparation for and response to a large-scale incident during sporting or special events. There are three rigorous, simulation-supported, scenario-based emergency response activities designed to hone both individual and team decision-making and incident management skills in the context of sports and special events operations.
Course Length: 24 hours
Students per class: 20-25
MGT-404: Sports & Special Events Incident Management
Course Description: The Sports and Special Events Incident Management course develops athletic department staff, facility management personnel, campus public safety personnel, emergency response supervisors, and others involved in sports and special event management to better prepare for, manage, and recover from incidents that could occur during a sporting event or other special event. This course was developed in partnership with the University of Southern Mississippi’s National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security. The course provides participants the skills necessary to effectively identify risk and mitigation strategies; manage incidents by applying and implementing incident management planning and resource management principles through a multi-disciplinary management team approach as described in the National Incident Management System (NIMS); and identify techniques that can improve the resiliency of the event venue. The course has specific emphasis on the unique aspects of response to an incident occurring during a sports and special event, including considerations for business continuity and after-action activities. The course concludes with a practical application, role-play exercise that is customized to the area in which the course is delivered.
This course emphasizes the unique aspects of response to an incident occurring during a sports/special event, including considerations for business continuity and after-action activities. You will learn the skills necessary to effectively manage an incident by applying and implementing a multi-disciplinary management team approach as described in the National Incident Management System (NIMS). This course is designed to help develop athletic department staff, facility management personnel, campus public safety personnel, emergency response supervisors, and others involved in sports/special event management to better manage incidents that could occur during an event.
Course Length: 24 hours
Students per class: 20-25
PER-211: Medical Management of CBRNE Events
Course Description: The Medical Management of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Events course prepares the participant to plan for effectively, appropriately, and safely, and respond to, a CBRNE incident using an all-hazards approach that can be adapted to natural disasters as well. CBRNE can be a perpetrated, a natural, or an accidental event. The course is intended to assist state and local jurisdictions in developing an all-hazards, multi-disciplined team-based approach capable of responding to a large-scale or expanding incident, including a CBRNE event. Participants will be able to prepare for and respond to the emergency medical needs resulting from a CBRNE/terrorist incident using an all-hazards approach.
Participants completing this program will be able to properly perform patient triage, decontamination, treatment, and transportation in the event of exposure to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) weapons. The course consists of facilitated discussions, small group exercises, hands-on activities, and task-oriented practical applications. Course participants will use both state-of-the-art adult and pediatric simulators to promote critical thinking skills while utilizing the RAPID-Care concept.
Course Length: 24 hours
Students per class: 20-25
CTI-502:Evacuation of Facilities in Disaster Systems (eFINDS)
Course Description: The New York State Evacuation of Facilities in Disasters Systems (eFINDS) is the patient/resident tracking application housed on the Health Commerce System (HCS). This course provides a solid foundation for registering and updating patient/resident location information during an incident or event, such as a storm, flood, non-natural incident, or practice exercise/drill.
Course Length: 4 hours; 8 Hours (TtT)
Students per class: 20-25