Managing Food Emergencies: Strategies for a Community Response (MGT-447)
This course helps jurisdictions develop a plan to effectively respond to a large food emergency. The goal of the course is to encourage multidisciplinary, multiagency planning to quickly mobilize resources in a food emergency. The course uses a whole community approach combined with NIMS, the Incident Command System (ICS), and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to respond to food emergencies.
Participants will learn how to identify a food emergency that should trigger a response; apply the principles of ICS; determine roles during a food emergency; identify resources; successfully communicate with other agencies and the public; and what to do during the recovery phase. The course combines facilitated discussion and scenario-based training to give participants tangible experience applicable to a real-world food emergency.
Min/Max Enrollment
Min 24; Max 40
Course Length
16 hrs.
Format
Mobile Instructor-Led Training
DHS Course Course
MGT-447
Facility Requirements
Please view this document for facility requirements.
Target Audience
The target audience for this course should be integrated and include management personnel from the following:
- Healthcare provider administration
- Hospital clinical leadership
- Hospital non-clinical supervisors
- Hospital liaison officers
- Hospital safety, emergency planning and emergency preparedness
- Mental health professionals
- Home healthcare and hospice
- Functional needs caretaker
- Local, county and state public health departments
- Emergency management organizations
- Emergency medical services
- Fire services
- Law enforcement
- Public information officers
- Public works directors
- Elected officials
- Transportation administration
- Schools
- Human services
- Community health centers
- Non-governmental and faith-based
- Veterinarians and veterinarian technicians