Public Safety CBRNE Response / Rutherford County

This course addressess specific fundamentals and skills associated with an emergency response to a WMD incident.  As such, it provides deatailed technical information and includes hands-on practice of actions required of emergency responders in such situations.

Participants are provide the opportunity to perform public safety sampling techniques required in the response to a WMD event.  Special Interest is the course's emphasis on collecting forensically valid samples, which is accomplished through maintaining a secure chain-of-custody for the sample from the time of collection through laboratory analysis.  This process is consistent with the FBI 12-step process for managing a crime screne, including those involving a WMD.