This is an interactive course that is designed to help dam owners, emergency planners, first responders, dam regulators, public officials, and consultants learn from each other to accomplish the following overarching training objectives:
• Learn how you can improve the integrated operations between dam owners, emergency planners, first responders, and dam engineers
• Review the basic elements of an emergency action plan for dams and levees
• Review the basics of integrated operations under the Incident Command System
• Learn how to effectively prepare, test and improve emergency action plans
• Describe the basic potential failure modes for dams and levees
• Learn how to improve communications during dam and levee incidents
• Learn how to improve evacuation planning
• Identify new technologies that can help improve your emergency response
• Describe and demonstrate the roles identified in the 5-Step EAP Process