EMGT 450 - Emergency Planning

Credits 3
The purpose of this capstone course is to give emergency responders and managers in business or government the ability to reduce losses, both in terms of human life and in damages to a property, with proper emergency planning. Emergency planning is designed to achieve community and extra community resources to reduce or minimize vulnerability. Preparedness concepts in this course include understanding vulnerability, making choices about which threats to plan for, creating teams to make plans, and testing and revising plans. The planning process is never complete, since as the threat environment changes, the tools to manage threats change. The emergency plan -sometimes called the emergency operations plan or EOP- is a snapshot of the planning process at a single point in time. Like the planning process, the plan must evolve with the current needs to be useful. As an emergency planner, you must know the steps in the planning process, while understanding you have a wide range of specialists to help with specific tasks. This course provides a comprehensive overview of emergency planning concepts, issues, and programs including major planning processes such as continuity of operations planning (COOP) and emergency operations planning (EOP). After this course, students will prepare an emergency operations plan appropriate for their agency's size and or location.