This course covers incident management; mass fatalities; planning before and operations during an incident; establishing the morgue; family assistance support operations; and assistance from the Federal government. The course concludes with a tabletop exercise.
Participants will learn to identify the characteristics of a mass fatality incident and identify the roles and responsibilities of key personnel in the incident. In addition, the instructor will describe the steps required to respond to a mass fatalities incident, including catastrophic numbers of fatalities and contaminated remains, and help participants determine their jurisdiction’s preparedness for a mass fatalities event.

Selection Criteria:

The target audience for this course is local responders who may have responsibility for the recovery, handling, identification, and return of remains following a mass fatalities incident.

Course Objectives:

• Describe the critical operational activities:
  • Notification
  • Staging
  • Search and recovery
  • Morgue operations
  • Media relations
  • Family assistance
• Explain how the Family Assistance Center is used to support families and to aid identification of the deceased.
• Identify the requirements to ensure that the psychological needs of morgue personnel are addressed.
• Recognize the importance of Critical Incident Stress Debriefings for responders at a mass fatalities incident.
• Identify the resources that are available during a mass fatalities incident and describe their roles and responsibilities.
• Apply the principles of ICS to a simulated incident.

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