Course Description:

This 8-hour awareness-level, instructor-led course is designed to prepare rural first responders and officials with the basic knowledge, skills and abilities to manage a mass fatality incident impacting their jurisdiction. Target audience includes first responders, coroners/medical examiners, public health officials, and others with responsibilities during a mass fatality incident. Issues addressed include establishing roles and responsibilities, assets management, remains processing and identification, diversity issues and development of a mass fatality plan that affect the construct of a mass fatality response. Course instruction provided by Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium (RDPC).

 Target Audience:

Citizens and volunteers., Emergency Medical Service, governmental agencies, healthcare, law enforcement and public health can all benefit from this course.

 Prerequisite: None