Raritan Valley Emergency Services Consulting & Education

Course Overview

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This program, developed by the CVVFA and ERSI, provides emergency services leaders and instructors with information and tools on traffic incident management that they can use to prepare their region's other emergency responders.  The program is designed to be a mix of classroom and hands on training using Table Top exercises.  This program was created with funding provided by DHS/FEMA's Fire Prevention and Safety grant, and is just one of the ERSI's efforts to ensure that "Everybody Goes Home".  

 

Course Objectives

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The primary objective of this program is to introduce the concept of Traffic Incident management and the importance of working together with other agencies to achieve the NUG (National Unified Goal) goals of Responder Safety; Safe, Quick Clearance; and Prompt, Reliable, Interoperable Communications.  The program will focus on encouraging those in leadership positions to set up the necessary operating guidelines with all stakeholders involved, and the importance of providing local Operational Training at a local level, such as our Highway Safety for Emergency Responders program.

 

This program is designed to provide Fire Department, EMS and other Emergency Services Leaders with the tools necessary to advocate for interagency traffic incident management at roadway incidents and provide operations level training to emergency responders.  Topics that will be covered include:

1. Correlate the strategies of the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management with actions that will improve responder safety on the roadway
2. Understand the importance of pre-incident coordination between agencies using the TIM committee concept
3. Develop an Incident Action Plan for roadway incidents that involve a multi-agency response
4. Facilitate the implementation of best practices training for roadway incidents within the participants' agency or jurisdiction
5. Facilitate a multi-agency table top exercise for training or to test a traffic management plan for a planned special event.

Agency representatives responsible for training, development of Standard Operating Procedures, and officers/supervisors of all Authorities Having Jurisdiction in a given region or territory.  This program is best delivered when all parties in the region are together.