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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course includes the Incident Command System and its use in managing emergency incidents. Emphasis is on managing resources, appropriate emergency management techniques, and coordinating multiple agency and jurisdictional responses. Sixteen instruction hours. Prerequisite: PST 130. 1 Credit.
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3.00 Credits
Prepares emergency services personnel to respond to and mitigate emergencies involving hazardous materials. This course covers incident management, site safety, personal protective equipment, mitigation techniques, decontamination, and basic chemical and toxicological concepts. Successful completion of the final exam satisfies 29 CFR 1910.120 First Responder Operations Level requirements. Three class hours. 3 Credits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of chemical structures and reactions of hazardous materials with an emphasis on how they impact emergency management. Course topics include basic chemistry bonding, organic and inorganic compounds, and fire chemistry. Each of the nine major hazard classes is examined in depth. The course prepares students to make informed decisions about how hazardous materials may behave when released or combined with fires, transportation accidents, storage accidents, and fixed-site spills. Information gathering, management and use is stressed. Three class hours. 3 Credits.
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0.50 Credits
The course is designed to help public safety providers address emergent psychological needs during a traumatic exposure. The content has been tailored for emergency medical service, fire service, law enforcement responders, and emergency communications personnel to help their colleagues and the public cope with the psychological damage of traumatic stress. Students will also receive training to appropriately deliver death notifications. Eight class hours. .5 Credits.
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1.00 Credits
This course provides emergency services responders with a practical approach to managing public safety incidents when they are faced with more patients than there are personnel or equipment to care for them. Topics include incident scene planning and management and ways to incorporate these principles on all calls involving multiple patients. Sixteen instructional hours. Prerequisite: PST 130. 1 Credit.
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course provides students with basic knowledge and skills to mitigate the effects of a hazardous materials incident/spill on the environment and to the community. Topics include an overview of the laws and standards, resources and planning, nature of hazardous materials incidents, hazard and risk assessment, personal protective equipment, spill/release control, and decontamination. Twenty-two instruction hours, eighteen laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PST 113 or EMS 113. 2 Credits.
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0.50 Credits
Individuals involved in public safety organizations find themselves in formal and informal leadership roles. This course provides an overview of the concept of leadership, the situational leadership model, and opportunities for each participant to develop selected leadership skills. Both operational and organizational perspectives of public safety leadership are addressed. Eight class hours. .5 Credits.
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0.50 Credits
Leaders and managers in public safety deal with a wide variety of personalities and the need to motivate others in diverse settings. This course provides a framework to promote the understanding of others' personalities and a model to increase the success of motivators specifically to public safety organizations and environments. Prerequisite: PST 250. .5 Credits.
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0.50 Credits
Public safety leaders and managers need to understand the importance and workings of groups both inside and outside their organizations. This course introduces the subject to leading groups while focusing on the public safety environment. Topics include group developmental stages, group goals, subgroups, and maximizing group effectiveness. Emphasis placed on practical applications or concepts and models. Prerequisite: PST 251. 1.5 Credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides aspiring and emerging public safety leaders and those already in leadership positions the opportunity to explore the concept of leadership and to develop and improve their leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors. The course integrates reading from the humanities, experiential exercises, dialogue, films, and contemporary readings on leadership in the public safety context. Fall Semester only. Three class hours. 3 Credits.
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