This course is designed for individuals who may be required to undertake the role of Incident Commander at a water or flood incident or act as an water/flood advisor to operational or tactical command. The course meets the content and learning outcomes of the CFOA/Defra Module 5 - Water Incident Management.
The course is staffed by both Rescue 3 Instructors and experienced emergency service flood managers to ensure a delivery team that combines R3 Safety and Rescue’s technical background with the extensive operational flood management experience.
COURSE AIM
To train existing managers to have a technical understanding of water and flood incident management.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course delegates will:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Incident Command System when applied to water and flood incidents.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Flood Rescue National Enhancement Project Concept of Operations.
- Demonstrate and understanding of Local Resilience Forum Emergency Flood Plans and local capability register.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the unique challenges of a multi-agency flood response, issues of primacy and quality assurance of teams.
- Demonstrate an understanding of water related dynamic risk assessment and how this impacts on the incident command system, including liaison with responding crews.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the water rescue training guidance modules and the associated capabilities of the personnel.
- Have an understanding of the levels of water rescue PPE and their associated uses and applications.
- Have an understanding of specific water incident issues including; specialist operator skills, welfare, crew rotation, de-contamination, communications plans and emergency procedures.
- Have an awareness of search management techniques for rivers and floods.
- Have an awareness of rescue and evacuation techniques used by teams.
- Have an understanding of Flood Management commonalities such as; accessing and interpreting weather and flood warnings, flood warning schemes, multi-agency working, rainfall prediction, flood development, hazard identification and deployment of crews.
- Have a comprehensive awareness of water rescue policies, SOP’s etc and their limitations.
- Have practical experience of the inland moving water environment.
- Have undertaken a multi-phase table-top flood management exercise.
COURSE PRE-REQUISITES
Able to swim
COURSE DURATION
5 day - includes Defra Module 2
4 day - excludes Defra Module 2 (delegates must already hold Mod 2 qualification)