RE: First Responders Training

["Jim Hardeman" <Jim#032#Hardeman@MAIL.DNR.STATE.GA.US>]

Jim —



I concur ... this is an excellent course. Two of my colleagues from CRCPD and I sat through the pilot version of the RERO course many years ago (circa 1995) when it was first moved from the Nevada Test Site (NTS) to Mt. Weather ... and then one of the other guys went back after FEMA had a chance to incorporate some of the recommendations we made. 



If I remember correctly, there are a couple of FEMA courses listed as pre-requisites ... I can't remember the course titles right off the bat, but they have to do with rad monitoring (i.e., using the CD V-700, CD-V 715 and CD V-718 instruments, dosimeters, etc.) and the basics of a response team. As you pointed out, anybody with those pre-requisites or equivalent training and experience should be able to take the material from the classroom portion and exercises and apply it to just about any radiological incident scenario.



FYI, FEMA used to offer an "advanced RERO" course at Mt. Weather. This course was designed to be delivered to entire response teams, as opposed to individuals. I'm not sure the course is still offered, but I heard good things about it.



DOE also has some training courses out there, primarily related to transportation. The WIPP folks have a "traveling road show" course that they offer to local responders along WIPP transportation corridors. The Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM) folks also have some courses under their TEPP (Transportation Emergency Preparedness Program) program. If anybody is interested, I can dig up some contacts on both of these.



Jim Hardeman

Jim_Hardeman@mail.dnr.state.ga.us 



>>> "Jim Darrough" <darrough@engr.orst.edu> 5/20/2002 12:19:59 >>>

Greetings.



	I recently attended FEMA's Mt. Weather, VA Radiological Emergency Response

Operations training. It is one week in length, and I found it to be

rewarding and appropriate. Although it does NOT address the terrorism or

nuclear weapons scenarios, those of us with prior experience will have no

problem applying it there.



	You can read about it at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/s301.htm. Another

site,  http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/is301.htm is an explanation of the

pre-requisite, IS-301, which is independent study on the internet, and is

tested and graded online as well.



Sincerely,

		Jim Darrough

		Health Physicist

		Oregon State University



-----Original Message-----

From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Dallas Jenkins

Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 8:45 AM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

Subject: Re: First Responders Training



I went through the course a couple of years ago and that was my reading

also. Not to mention the off-color comments the FBI instructor made

regarding people who believe in the Constitution or the Bible.



Dallas R. Jenkins

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Safety Specialist, Glenn Safety Office

Building 6, Room 143

Telephone:	(216) 433-3771

Fax:		(216) 433-3015



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At 09:51 AM 05/17/2002 -0500, Jim Hardeman wrote:

>Has anybody on RADSAFE participated in this course? Do we know anything

>about the quality of training with regard to rad issues? The feedback that

>I've received from a number of state and local folks who've sat in on

>these "WMD courses" is that they're pretty solid on chem, less so on bio,

>and ... this is not my opinion, I'm just reporting what I've been told ...

>woefully inadequate for radiological issues.

>

>

>Jim Hardeman, Manager

>Environmental Radiation Program

>Georgia Environmental Protection Division

>4244 International Parkway, Suite 114

>Atlanta, GA 30354

>(404) 362-2675

>Fax: (404) 362-2653

>E-mail: Jim_Hardeman@mail.dnr.state.ga.us 

>

>

> >>> <RadSafeInst@CS.COM> 5/16/2002 19:18:57 >>>

>Radsafers,

>      As most of you know by now, the Department of Justice (Justice

Programs

>Division) offers Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) training for first

>responders. See the following site for details:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp/ 

>The three-day course is taught right here in "Grits City" (Anniston, AL at

>the old Chemical School on the former Fort McClellan). I believe it is

funded

>by DoJ at no cost to States and Cities sending the students. There is also

a

>similar school in Nevada, but I know essentially nothing about it.

>                                                Ed

>

>



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