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CBRNE Training Academy

CBRNE Training Academy. Awareness. Lecture Goals. Help You To: Define awareness Understand your environment Recognize an event has occurred Understand your role. Awareness, defined. Watchful, vigilant, cautious, on one's guard. Informed, cognizant, conscious, sensible, to know.

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CBRNE Training Academy

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  1. CBRNE Training Academy Awareness

  2. Lecture Goals Help You To: • Define awareness • Understand your environment • Recognize an event has occurred • Understand your role

  3. Awareness, defined • Watchful, vigilant, cautious, on one's guard. • Informed, cognizant, conscious, sensible, to know. • The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed.

  4. Awareness continued • Healthy suspicion without paranoia • When something happens . . . • Recognize that it is out of the ordinary • Ensure safety (your own, and others) • Identify the problem • Isolate the problem • Control the event • Prevent further harm

  5. Just like the subway . . .

  6. Just like the subway . . . • “If you see something, say something” • Clues • Evidence that helps solve a problem • Odors, colors, patterns of injury or disease, similar complaints, etc. • Don’t rely on just one sense or source of information • If there is any suspicion, ask for help

  7. What is going on here? • Many people are covered in paint • One person is seizing • Two people are seizing • You register someone named Michael Jackson

  8. Why be aware? • Know normal, know abnormal • Allows you to “sound the alarm” • What do you encounter every day? • Participate through normal job function

  9. Practical awareness • Conscious of work environment • Cautious and vigilant • Watchful and on guard • React sensibly • Know what to do

  10. Awareness prepares Disaster An event where. . . Needs > Resources Mass Casualty Incident A disaster where. . . Healthcare needs > Resources

  11. The “T” Word “The unlawful use of force against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment there of, in the furtherance of political or social objectives.” It is not nuclear, biologic or chemical. It is fear.

  12. Intent Northridge earthquake vs. WTC

  13. Intent Food poisoning (spoiled meat) vs. Salmonella sprayed on a salad bar

  14. Intent Lake Nyos, Cameroon vs. Tokyo subway

  15. Demystify • Terrorism is fear • Can’t prepare for everything • Minimize fear through knowledge • Knowledge is preparedness • Preparedness applies to everything

  16. You are already ready • Take what you know everyday • Apply it to what you don’t know • Same professional, logical, organized outcome • You have the ability, knowledge and understanding necessary to respond

  17. Remember this Prepared for the mundane = prepared for the exotic

  18. Questions?

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