Emergency Management Training Program
The Emergency Management Training Program provides specialized training for senior emergency management personnel and practitioners (including police, fire, ambulance and other emergency personnel). The training focuses on the management of multi-service responses to emergencies through Emergency Operations Centre and Incident Site Management courses.
- Basic Emergency Management:
This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of emergency management with core elements common to all provinces and territories across Canada. It is designed for officials from all levels of government, emergency measures/management coordinators, and/or planners, emergency responders, volunteers, private sector representatives, etc.
- Emergency Operations Centre Management:
For senior level emergency management practitioners with decision-making responsibility within an emergency operations centre team.
- Incident Site Management:
For senior level emergency management practitioners with key decision-making responsibility within a multi-service response emergency site team.
- Course dates:
Basic Emergency Management
The Basic Emergency Management course, or its equivalent, is offered by most provincial/territorial emergency management organizations (EMOs). This is an entry level course and, along with its provincial/territorial equivalents, is considered a prerequisite for courses conducted at the College.
- Participants
- Recommended for all emergency management personnel
- Course objective
- To provide the participant with a broad base from which to carry out emergency planning and operations
- Prerequisites
- None
- Format
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- Offered in the provinces and territories through a range of delivery mechanisms that factor in information specific to the jurisdiction, or
- CD-ROM version of the course available through the EMOs
- Course availability
- To receive information on their course schedule or to obtain a copy of the CD-ROM version, please contact your provincial/territorial EMO.
Emergency Operations Centre Management
This training course prepares emergency management practitioners to carry out their roles as members of an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) team. The EOC Management course trains participants to effectively manage and coordinate the overall operations within their communities, while also providing the necessary support to the site management team during a multi-service response to an emergency.
- Participants
- Recommended for senior level emergency management practitioners who have a decision-making role in the EOC. Course offerings are available for large ("Collegeville") and small ("Grandville") communities. Applicants must confirm that their community size/resource level is consistent with the course offering and demonstrate their emergency role as it relates to the course objective.
- Course objective
- To enable the participant to work as a member of the emergency operations centre team that manages the emergency response for a municipality
- Prerequisites
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- Basic Emergency Management course or provincial/territorial equivalent, and
- Participant must have a decision-making role in an Emergency Operations Centre that requires the training provided by this course
- Format
- Classroom training and application of course concepts in simulated emergency situations
- Course availability
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For more information about registering for CEMC courses, please see Enrolment or contact the Registrar.
Incident Site Management
This course prepares emergency management practitioners to carry out their roles as members of an emergency site team. In an emergency situation, new relationships must be established quickly between community organizations, outside agencies, volunteers and other entities from various levels of government who might not normally work together. This advanced level course covers the principles of a coordinated multi-service and multi-jurisdictional response at an emergency site.
- Participants
- Recommended for senior level emergency management practitioners who have a key decision-making role as a member of the emergency site team. Applicants must demonstrate their emergency role as it relates to the course objective.
- Course objective
- To enable the participant to work as a member of the emergency site team that manages a multi-service/jurisdictional response at an emergency site
- Prerequisites
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- Basic Emergency Management course or provincial/territorial equivalent, and
- Participants must have a decision-making role on an Incident Site Management team that requires the training provided by this course
- Format
- Classroom training and application of course concepts in complex simulated emergency situations
- Course availability
- For courses offered jointly by the College and provincial/territorial governments, please contact your provincial/territorial EMO.