METHAMPHETAMINE LAB SAFETY AND DRUG AWARENESS

This 8-hour Experience is designed to give you an understanding of the dangers of meth labs and meth users we may encounter in the field, how to recognize when we are encountering a lab, contamination left behind, and the serious health hazards to anyone that comes in contact with it.

INTRODUCTION TO IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURING

During this 8-hour Experience, you will learn the basics of how to visually identify improvised manufactured explosives (IME) as they are being manufactured, and how to understand and use chemical reagent test kits and instrumental monitoring equipment to identify IME manufacturing labs

CLANDESTINE LABS COMBO COURSE

This 24-hour Experience is a long-awaited combination of our IME Labs course and Methamphetamine Labs courses. In addition to the content of each individual course, participants will enter simulated lab situations and attempt to identify the purpose of each .

DRILL

A drill is a supervised activity with a limited focus to test a procedure that is a component of an overall emergency management plan. For example, an organization might conduct a drill for the use of a radio system with those responsible for communicating on it.

TABLETOP EXERCISE

A tabletop exercise uses written and verbal scenarios to evaluate the effectiveness of an emergency management plan and procedures and to highlight issues of coordination and assignment of responsibilities. Tabletop exercises do not physically simulate specific events, do not utilize equipment, and do not deploy resources. In a tabletop exercise, a facilitator usually coordinates discussion.

FUNCTIONAL EXERCISE

A functional exercise simulates a disaster in the most realistic manner possible without moving real people or equipment to a real site. A functional exercise utilizes a carefully designed and scripted scenario, with timed messages and communications between players and simulators. The emergency operations center (EOC)—the facility or area from which disaster response is coordinated—is usually activated during a functional exercise and actual communications equipment may be used.

FULL SCALE EXERCISE

A full-scale exercise is often the culmination of previous drills and exercises. It tests the mobilization of all or as many as possible of the response components, takes place in “real time,” employs real equipment, and tests several emergency functions. “Controllers,” who maintain order and ensure that the exercise proceeds according to plan, are also usually used. Full-scale exercises are generally intended to evaluate the operations capability of emergency management systems in a community and to evaluate interagency coordination.