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IS-10.A: Animals in Disasters: Awareness and Preparedness

Course Date

10/2/2015

Course Overview

This course is intended to help animal owners, care providers, and industries to understand incident management.

Course Objectives:

The objectives of this course are to increase awareness and preparedness among animal owners and care providers, and to describe how typical hazards affect animals and what can be done by responsible owners to reduce the impact of disasters.

Primary Audience

Animal owners and care providers.

Prerequisites

None

CEUs:

0.4

Course Length:

4 hours

Take This Course

Interactive Web Based Course

Final Exam

Take Final Exam Online

Notices

Test questions are scrambled to protect test integrity