Course Description
This is a performance-level course designed to address specific fundamentals and skills associated with an emergency response to a CBNRE incident. As such, it provides detailed technical information and includes hands-on practice of actions required of emergency responders in such situations.

Of 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 operations of all public safety responding agencies.

As required by the National Incident Management System (NIMS), this course also addresses the necessity for teamwork (Incident Command and Unified Command) among all responding agencies and actions that public safety responders can take to support and facilitate the operations of fire and medical services and other responding agencies. In summary, the course will prepare representatives of local and state emergency response agencies to perform a critical technical sampling and survey function safely and effectively during an incident involving CBRNE.

Course Objectives
Describe how this course will benefit them
Identify their roles and responsibilities as public safety responders during all phases of a CBRNE incident in which samples are required and explain how the FBI's 12-step crime scene management process affects those roles
Choose correct industry-standard screening and monitoring equipment based on a suspected material's chemical and physical properties and correctly use the selected equipment to determine required precautions for public safety samplers at a CBRNE incident scene
Correctly perform public safety sampling at a CBRNE incident scene using the appropriate technique based on the material being collected
Perform public safety sampling operations using various monitoring equipment, sampling techniques, and proper labeling and chain-of-custody procedures
Safely collect a public safety sample during a CBRNE incident
Complete a comprehensive post-test and course evaluation

This is a dual registration course. Students must register with LSU to receive pre-course correspondence with instructors and credit for this course.

LSU Registration Link: https://train.ncbrt.lsu.edu/ClassRegister?ClassID=34973

Class ID: 34973

Class Access Code: NCBRT222