IS-15.b - Special Events Contingency Planning for Public Safety Agencies

Course Date

22 July, 2010

Course Description

This web-based course provides public safety agency personnel information related to pre-event planning, forming the planning team, event hazard analysis, and responding to incidents during special events in their community. Though relevant special events statutes/ordinances and codes must be considered by public safety agency personnel engaged in special event planning, an extensive job aid manual is included in the course and available for download on the course web page.

Summary of Changes

IS-15.b has been updated to align with the National Response Framework and National Incident Management System. If you have successfully completed IS-15 or IS-15.a, you may want to review the new version of the course. For credentialing purposes, the courses are equivalent.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:

• Define special event.
• Identify a special event contingency planning team.
• Conduct a hazard analysis for a special event.
• Describe how the incident command system (ICS) can be used in response to an incident at a special event.

Primary Audience

Emergency managers, personnel from emergency operations organizations such as law enforcement, fire, medical services, and public works, and representatives from other community organizations, both public and private, for whom special event planning is not a regular responsibility.

Prerequisites

N/A. However, completion of IS 700, National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction, and IS 100, Introduction to Incident Command System, is recommended.

Course Length

4 hours

CEUs

0.4