The impacts of disasters on affected individuals and communities can be profound, long lasting and life changing. This MRM training course is delivered by two passionate emergency management specialists with over 30 years combined emergency management and lived experience working with communities pre and post disaster.
Mat and Sue received a Resilient Australia Award and an “Excellence in Emergency Communications” Award from EMPA for their innovative community led recovery strategy post the South West Fires.
Uniquely this training takes participants on a journey that exposes the realities and complexities of working alongside disaster impacted communities. This training is delivered through reality-based training, simulations, practical scenarios, case studies and problem-based learning to develop participants into operationally ready MRM’s.
Participants are provided with opportunities to practice their newly learned skills in immersive interactive scenarios where they will:
- undertake the role of a MRM responding to a single incident, in an incident control centre and in a MOCC/MECC
- respond to requests from response agencies and community during a simulated emergency
- experience managing real life complexities of impacted community during an emergency exercise run in real time
This training builds leadership capabilities and increases participants confidence in becoming effective emergency management leaders and advocates for community led recovery.
Who Should Attend?
- Municipal Recovery Managers (MRM’s)
- Municipal Recovery Officers
- Municipal Emergency Management Officers
Topics
- National Principles of Recovery
- Victorian Government’s recovery outcomes Legislation and policy including the State Emergency Management Plan (SEMP) & Victorian Preparedness Framework
- Emergency management phases, tiers & structure
- Council’s legislated emergency management roles and responsibilities
- Role of the MRM before, during and after emergencies
- Responding to single incidents
- Identifying & operating Emergency Relief Centres
- Planning for and deploying staff to conduct Municipal Secondary Impact Assessments (MSIA)
- Establishing and managing a Municipal Operations Coordination Centre
- Effective and proven briefing techniques
- Managing information (log books, Crisisworks & EMCOP overview)
- Techniques for communicating with affected communities
- Community-led recovery
- The importance of building social capital
- What is community?
- Planning for and delivering community meetings before and during emergencies
- Recovery pillars
- Recovery planning
Outcomes
Success as a MRM requires commitment, knowledge and leadership skills. This training:
- Exposes you to best practice emergency management techniques
- Skills you in effective communication methods
- Builds your confidence in making effective, informed decisions
- Increases your comprehension of legislative requirements
- Builds your confidence through practical and theatrical scenario based learning
Delivery method
This training is delivered face to face and uses reality-based training, simulations, practical scenarios, case studies and problem-based learning where lived experiences are shared to enhance participants learning experience. During our training we share real life experiences, combined with best practice research, to ensure participants are provided with current information, strategies and ideas.
Duration
This course is over 3 consecutive days.
Course outline
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