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Water Facilities Security and Response Systems Training

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Attributes
  • CEU's: 1.4
  • FDEP OCP DS/DW/WW CEUs: Intermediate: 43771: 1.4
  • FBPE PDH's 0004040: 14
  • Time Day One: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  • Time Day Two: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  • Middleburg Class will start at : 8:30am each day
Coordinator Stephanie West, (352) 392-9570 x216
Description
NEW  & Updated Class!
Description:
The University of Florida TREEO Center, in cooperation with Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), will be presenting Water Facilities Security and Response Systems Training (WST) in communities across the State.  This training is considered as an important element in emergency preparedness.  
 
The continuously updated course includes an overview of the latest emergency protocols, and features interactive scenarios aimed at improving participants’ ability to plan, coordinate and effectively respond as a crisis unfolds in their community.
 
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
  • Learn their roles in response to emergencies involving their community’s water utilities. 
  • Understand vulnerability assessments, the Incident Command System (ICS), mutual aid and their Emergency Response Plan (ERP)
  • Engage in hands-on practice for coordination with other agencies including the Emergency Operations Center, public information and personal emergency response plans
 
Who Should Attend:
Personnel from the following departments and agencies:
  • Water and Wastewater Facilities
  • Emergency Response
  • Health Department
  • Regulatory
  • Law Enforcement
  • Fire Department
So we may reach all of our intended Florida audience, please limit registration to 5 employees from each facility. Each class is limited to 40 students.
 
 
Instructor:
 
Ron Trygar, CET-Ron has recently joined the UF TREEO Center staff as our Senior Training Specialist for Water and Wastewater. He has worked in the wastewater industry for twenty five years in a variety of locations and jobs. In 1998 Ron became a Certified Environmental Trainer (CET) and has since provided training for associations and regulatory agencies such as FDEP; UF-TREEO Center; FW&PCOA Short Schools; USABlueBook; FWEA sponsored training events and local school environmental programs. He has also assisted the U.S. EPA in providing flow measurement training in Tallahassee, and along with the FDEP Northeast District, he helped begin the FRWA/FDEP joint operator certification review classes that are still given around the state today.  Ron holds a Florida class A wastewater treatment operator’s license and a Florida class C drinking water operator’s license.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day One
Morning
 Introduction
 Overview of Water Security
 National Response Plan (NRP)
Break
 Simple Table Top Scenario
 Incident Command System (ICS)
 National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Afternoon
Lunch (on your own)
 Response to Protocol Toolbox
 Florida Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (FlaWARN)
 Simple Table Top Scenario
Break
 Guidance on Developing or Revising Emergency Response Plans
 Simple Table Top Scenario
 Hot Wash, Comments and Review fo Day One
 Adjourn
Day Two
Morning
 Overview of Enhanced Table Top Scenarios
 Enhanced Scenario Number One
 Hot Wash
Afternoon
Lunch (on your own)
 Enhanced Scenario Number Two
 Hotwash
 Adjourn