Training

ORAU Customizes Training to Fit Your Agency Needs

Disasters and emergencies require a coordinated planning and response effort. To best prepare for an event threatening national security or public safety, emergency management personnel must continually address their immediate and long-term responses through a range of scenarios.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) offers a full spectrum of planning, training and exercise activities—led by key security and emergency management experts—to effectively test emergency procedures, resource readiness, interagency cooperation, communication efforts and more.

ORAU can help bring your staff to the level of competency needed to ensure an effective response, as well as into compliance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

Our training capabilities are customized to meet your specific needs and can take on several formats, such as:

• Web-based/computer-based training
• Traditional classroom sessions
• Workshops/meetings
• Tabletop exercises
• Full-scale exercises
• Train-the-trainer
• Self-study products including checklists and job aids

Our areas of expertise include:

• Emergency preparedness for:
• Biological, chemical and radiological incidents
• Fixed facilities
• Transportation-related incidents (including hazardous materials)
• Crisis and risk communications
• Emergency public information, including Joint Information Center (JIC) facility management
• Handheld and wireless technology in emergencies for use during an emergency
• Spokesperson/public affairs training
• Weapons of mass destruction