Overview
Today’s emergency responders are now on the front lines of Homeland Defense. Public safety professionals must develop new levels of awareness to potential terrorism attacks. Emergency Response to Terrorism – Awareness Level represents a new trend in emergency response training — accelerating classroom learning to create more time for valuable field-training exercises.

The new online multimedia course provides information on how to identify, analyze, and respond to a suspected criminal or terrorist activity. Training included in the courseware teaches you how to respond to incidents involving biological, nuclear, incendiary, chemical and explosive materials situations (B-NICE).

Emergency Response to Terrorism – Awareness Level course content is contained on a Web-ROM and is 2-4 hours in length. This course also complies with NFPA 472.

Topics
Just a Few Topics Covered in this Course:

1. Hazards associated with criminal and terrorist activity

2. Health risks of chemical agents

3. Procedures in LERP or SOPs for decontaminating large numbers of people

4. Procedures for collecting and preserving legal evidence

5. Items to consider in a safety briefing

6. Specific actions to take when a criminal or terrorist action is suspected

Benefits
Emergency Response to Terrorism – Awareness Level is more than just another training program. The course is delivered through FireRescueWORLD.com which features automated record keeping, virtual reality, instantaneous feedback, and instruction from some of the nation’s foremost experts. The system will significantly reduce time demands on training officers. The benefits over conventional classroom training are numerous and include:

Learning Benefits

• Increased retention. Government and other industry studies have proven that student retention rates increase 30-50% through the use of interesting and engaging interactive training like Emergency Response to Terrorism – Awareness Level. Through the use of full-motion video, audio, graphics, virtual reality scenarios, animations, tests, and games, student learning comes alive and delivers outstanding results.

• Reduced knowledge based training time. Each responder controls the pace of learning throughout the course. Responders can repeat any sections not understood, receiving immediate feedback. In addition, they can use the Emergency Response to Terrorism – Awareness Level course at their convenience. These benefits ultimately will reduce training time up to 50% in comparison to conventional training methods.

• Practice through simulation. Through the use of virtual reality scenarios, instructors have the ability to teach physical skills in an environmentally safe and cost-effective manner. This process speeds skills retention and makes hands-on training more effective and efficient.

• Increased safety. Topics dealing with dangerous materials and procedures are presented in an interactive format, without subjecting the responder to unnecessary physical risks.

• Turnkey implementation. No IT headaches. FireRescueWORLD does not require any programming or proprietary software. Simply load the provided Web-ROMs and begin training.

Benefits to the Department

• Automated record keeping. Each responder’s course records are tracked individually through FireRescue WORLD’s Learning Management System at no additional cost. Stored records reflect training duration and scores. In addition, course managers can manage and print responders’ performances.

• Increased Productivity. Responders can train at the station while on duty increasing the number of responders available for response while training.

• Reduced hazards. Conducting initial training using the interactive, scenario filled, multimedia courseware can substantially reduce safety risks, training accidents, and time lost due to training injury. Responders train in a non-threatening environment that is more conducive to learning, before they go into the field to perform hands-on training skills.

Cost Benefits

• Eliminates equipment and personnel travel costs. Training can be performed in house, at any station, simultaneously, eliminating the excessive costs associated with transporting equipment and personnel to a central training location.

• Decreased training costs. Training is available on-site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, resulting in little or no travel costs or overtime expenses.

• Reduced equipment costs. The system simulates equipment that would typically be very expensive for most fire departments to provide. In addition, utilizing interactive multimedia training conserves costly fuels and firefighting agents, thus minimizing environmental firefighter impact.

• Reduced per-student costs. Training can take place at each fire department, rather than sending responders or trainers to remote training facilities and off-site seminars, thus eliminating the cost of travel and lodging.

• Reduced instructor costs. Instructors can use their time more efficiently to provide additional remediation for slow learners or motivation for more advanced responders. They can also concentrate their efforts on mandated hands-on training exercises and other mandatory training topics.