Objective

Enable participants to be able to carry out basic response actions when managing a CBRNE event.

Target Audience

First responders who may fulfil a function in:

• Confinement and mitigation;
• Security and law enforcement control;
• Initial medical response;
• Fire Fighting;
• Triage and mass-casualties management; and
• Crowd control.

Duration

24 hours

Contents

Awareness

• What is CBRNE?
• National policy and systems for
• dealing with CBRNE events  Potential impacts of a CBRNE event
• Recognition of a CBRNE threat and
• immediate actions  How to protect yourself and others
• Informing others – sounding the alarm
• Public awareness and CBRNE culture

Response

• Chemical agents, hazards and
• protection  Biological agents, hazards and
• protection  Radioactivity, hazards and protection
• Explosive hazards
• Hazard recognition, detection and
• measurement  Safety distances
• Medical first response and patient
• transport  Scene management
• Command and control
• Mass casualty management
• Communication with the public
• Personnel protection
• Contamination control
• Radioactive source recovery
• Decontamination