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Free Course Self study
This course is offered free of charge. Just use the registration form above to request this course. A self study package will be delivered to your inbox. Once you have completed the material, you will be asked to return the exam to Vanguard EMC. We will mark it and send you the certificate.

Course Description
The Incident Command System is a standardized management system used to organize and manage a scalable response to emergency incidents of any magnitude.

This half day session is intended as an introduction and overview of the Incident Command System.

It is designed for people who may be assigned to incidents in non-supervisory roles and as a prerequisite for students continuing to other levels. With this promotion, we are covering all administrative costs, including written examination and certificate.

The material is not confined to one discipline and is intended for all emergency responders. Module presentations and exercises are tailored to our client's needs on a course by course basis.

Course Description
The Incident Command System is a standardized management system used to organize and manage a scalable response to emergency incidents of any magnitude. This basic level course provides, those who will be the initial incident commander and those who will have a supervisory role at a small to moderate size incident, the knowledge and skills to manage effectively and efficiently at these emergency sites.

Price
$795 +HST. Includes student reference text, videos, exercises, small group discussions and tests.

Audience
Anyone who requires a sound knowledge of Incident Command and its structure along with the relationships among the various task groups.

Pre-requisite
ICS 100 course (which is also available as a free download from the EmergeX website.)

Duration
2 days

Course Content
Includes 5 modules:

• Principles and Features of ICS
• Organizational Overview
• Incident Facilities
• Incident Resources
• Common Responsibilities Associated with ICS Assignments

The material is not confined to one discipline and is intended for all emergency responders. Module presentations and exercises are tailored to our client's needs on a course by course basis.

Course Description
The Incident Command System is a standardized management system used to organize and manage a scalable response to emergency incidents of any magnitude.

This more detailed session is primarily designed to provide those individuals with increasing responsibility, the knowledge and skills they will need to manage effectively and efficiently at the site level. Pre-requisite I-200

Price
$795 +HST. Includes student reference text, videos, exercises, small group discussions and tests.

Duration
2 days

• Organization and Staffing
• Organizing for Incidents or Events
• Incident Resources Management
• Air Operations
• Incident and Event Planning

The material is not confined to one discipline and is intended for all emergency responders. Module presentations and exercises are tailored to our client's needs on a course by course basis.

Course Description
The Incident Command System is a standardized management system used to organize and manage a scalable response to emergency incidents of any magnitude.

The purpose of this 3 day course is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to manage large and complex emergency incidents, multiple incidents involving multiple agencies and multiple jurisdictions, or participate in a supervisory position in such incidents.

Pre-requisite I-300

Price
$1125 +HST. Includes student reference text, videos, exercises, small group discussions and tests.

Duration
3 days

The following subjects are presented, discussed and practiced:

• Command and General Staff: Details responsibilities and guidelines for activation.
• Unified Command: Outlines the purpose and advantage of multi-jurisdiction and/or multi-agency Unified Command, and how Unified Command can be applied to an incident .
• Major Incident Management: Describes several models on how to divide major, single incidents for more effective management.
• Area Command: Describes why, when, where, and how Area Command is established, and the organization, facilities and communications required.

Simulation exercises are included with each module.

An officially sanctioned Certificate will be issued following completion of I-400.

This 4 hour orientation is designed for executives, administrators, and policy makers. It provides a basic understanding of ICS, Unified and Area command, and multi-agency coordination to those persons responsible for setting or implementing policy, but who normally are not a part of the on-scene ICS organization. The module also discusses responsibilities and information transfer between Agency Executives and Incident Commanders. Prerequisite: None

Single day Business Continuity Management overview. Excellent appreciation of Continuity Management for mid to senior level managers.

Can be adjusted for a half day, fast paced executive seminar.

Two day course on the fundamentals of BCM for intact teams. Instruction includes the “how” of implementing a competent BC program aligned with the organizations goals.

Three day course on the details of Business Continuity Management.

Includes Business Continuity methodology & Implementation Techniques.

A two day interactive workshop teaching the techniques to achieve success and the processes required to implement a Business Impact Analysis. The seminar is designed to be fast paced with many opportunities for participation and discussion.
Price
$1895 +HST. Includes student reference text
Also available as an in house offering with significant discounts
The instructor will walk participants through all of the steps involved in preparing a BIA. Course content includes:

• Identifying the impacts from disruptions and disasters
• Techniques to quantify and qualify impacts
• Identifying critical business functions
• Identifying recovery priorities
• Identifying inter-dependencies
• Establishing recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
• Resources required for recovery

Audience
This course is designed for individuals requiring a sound foundation in conducting a Business Impact Assessment as the critical component of an overall Business Continuity Plan.

Two day workshop on Business Impact Analysis specifically designed for your organization.

Provides questionnaires and tools for data collection

Course Description

A two day interactive workshop program teaching the techniques to achieve success and the processes required to design, manage, and evaluate exercises for Business Continuity, Emergency Management or Pandemic Plans. The seminar is designed to be fast paced with many opportunities for participation and discussion. Participants use the techniques learned in the first day and a half of the workshop to conduct and participate in a 1 hour tabletop exercise during the second afternoon. Seminar materials include a 3 ring binder with the presentation slides, 29 templates in both hard and soft copies consisting of 26 design and evaluation forms, a tabletop exercise development guide and 2 post-exercise report formats. All templates are non-copyright and can be used as desired by participants.

Price
Workshop Price: $985.00 for the 2 days including workshop materials mentioned above
Audience
There is no prerequisite to this course. It is designed for anyone who will be involved in planning, managing or evaluating a business continuity, emergency management or pandemic exercise. The optimum class size is 8-16 participants.
Duration
2 days
Topics, Presented and Practiced

• Exercise concepts
• Planning the exercise
• Develop an exercise program
• Develop exercise scenarios
• Prepare a single exercise activity list
• Develop the scope and objectives for an exercise
• Define the roles for:
• Exercise Director
• Design team
• Controllers
• Evaluators, Observers, and Auditors
• Senior management participation
• Develop problem sets and inject times
• Prepare a briefing and de-briefing summary
• Develop evaluation criteria
• Manage the exercise activities
• Evaluate the exercise

Exercise Workshop Tools and Templates Included with the Course Material
All tools, templates and reports provided with this workshop are in MS Word, Power Point and Excel formats. The documents are license free and are fully editable by participants for use in their own organizations. A valuable time-saver!

• Exercise Planning Checklist
• Exercise Budget Planner
• Exercise Program Annual Schedule
• Exercise Project Control Summary
• Single Exercise Schedule
• Exercise Communiqué
• Scope & Objectives Worksheet
• Approval Request
• Scenario Idea List
• Scenario Development Worksheet
• Exercise Team Members and Assignments
• Problem Set/Inject Development Worksheet
• Master Problem Set list
• Problem Sets & Inject Time Worksheet
• Participant Worksheet
• Exercise Briefing Guide
• Briefing Summary Worksheet
• De-briefing Guide
• News Information Form
• Observer feedback
• Participant feedback
• Evaluator Record Worksheet
• General Exercise Evaluation
• Full Tabletop Exercise Planning Guide – 11 pages
• Exercise Evaluation Cross Reference Tool
• First Impressions Report Template - Power Point

Course Outline
Day 1 AM
- Welcome and introductions
- Lecture and theory of exercise planning
- Small team activity to identify the assets of a fictitious company
Day 1 PM
- 2 teams established
- Each team is assigned activities relative to the design of a table top exercise
- Teams present results to full class
Day 2 AM
- Teams review previous day activities
- Short period of lecture
- Teams continue exercise development
Day 2 PM
- Final exercise development activities
- 2:15 PM: start a "Command & Control" tabletop exercise based on effort of past 1.5 days
- 3:15 PM conclude the exercise
- conduct an evaluation and de-briefing
- 4 PM Terminate the workshop