Critical Infrastructure Security & Resilience Awareness (AWR-213)

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Course Date(s) & Time(s): 8 total hours 

• Wednesday, August 21st – TBD

NOTE: Individuals completing this course in combination with MGT310, MGT315, MGT414 and MGT452 are awarded the TEEX Infrastructure Protection Certificate.This course meets Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) requirements for AWR213 Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Awareness course #78408. 

Course Description: This course will introduce participants to the key terms, policy, guidance, and preparedness efforts required to safeguard the Nation’s critical infrastructure. Participants will discuss the risk management framework, describe Federal critical infrastructure security and resilience and information sharing programs, and relate critical infrastructure programs to individual actions.

Focus will be placed on local preparedness efforts as they relate to the national approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience, enabling stakeholders to address local planning within a common framework. Informed planning is consistent with accepted emergency management standards as the basis for planning across the mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Topics included (but not limited to):

• The critical infrastructure challenge

• Federal policy and guidance

• Risk management

• Roles and responsibilities of critical infrastructure partners

• information sharing programs

• Individual actions

Target Audience: See list below:

• Critical facility owners, operators and managers

• Sector specific agency managers

• Federal, State, Local, Regional & Tribal territorial government officials and managers

• Other organizations and managers with critical infrastructure responsibilities

Course Prerequisites (Mandatory): Students must register & bring a copy of their FEMA issued Student Identification Number (SID) to class. If you do not have a SID number, register for one by visiting the following link. (FEMA SID)

Course Prerequisites (Recommended):

• IS-100.B: Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS)

• IS-700.A: National Incident Management System (NIMS) – An Introduction

• AWR-160: WMD/Terrorism Awareness for Emergency Responders

  • Find the Independent Study (IS) (online completed) courses above by visiting this LINK

  • Find the AWR and MGT courses above by visiting this LINK

Course Location: Northampton County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) – 100 Gracedale Avenue, Nazareth, PA 18064 – (Directions)

Course Registration: Registration information COMING SOON!

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