What you can expect to do on this course

As disaster and emergency managers our aim is to identify risks, assess and prioritise them, mitigate those risks to the lowest possible level where feasible, and to prepare to manage and respond to emergencies and disasters resulting from residual risks. For many countries, organisations and individuals, the process of developing and implementing approaches to managing risk is an ongoing and developmental process of change. In order to reduce and manage risks, we might use mechanisms such as institutional structures, legal frameworks, preparedness tools such as emergency plans, and protocols for response such as standard operating procedures. Each is developed, implemented and adapted over time. But the development, implementation, application and review of new initiatives takes knowledge, skills and the appropriate attributes of the people involved, be they professionals or the public.In this short course, we will look at the relationship between risk management, emergency preparedness and training, and identify where training and exercising fits within these processes. Then we will look in more detail at the training cycle and good practice approaches to developing training events and programs.In this video, Dr El Parker, principal lecturer in Disaster Management and course director for MSc programs at Coventry University welcomes you to this Coventry University Online taster course.This short course is the introductory two-week course for a program in Training and exercising design and delivery which forms part of MSc Emergency Management and Resilience online degree at Coventry University delivered on FutureLearn.

This week:

• Explore the meaning of capacity and the role of training for increasing it
• Describe emergency and disaster management capabilities
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  Coventry University online course,

  Emergency and Disaster Training and Exercising: An Introduction

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  Discuss the distinctions between the terms education, training and development
• Examine the training cycle

Meet the team

The Lead Educator for this course is Dr El Parker, principal lecturer in Disaster Management and course director for MSc programs at Coventry University welcomes you to this Coventry University Online taster course.She is joined by Dr Yung-Fang Chen a senior lecturer in disaster management and emergency planning.Your associate lecturer is Gareth Black, an emergency planning and crisis management practitioner, who will guide you through the course. He is an emergency planning and crisis management practitioner. Gareth has worked with companies all over the world to improve their crisis management capabilities with a particular specialism in the health sector.You can follow them by navigating to their FutureLearn profile page and clicking ‘follow’. That way, you’ll be able to see all the comments they make.The content was prepared by expert practitioners in the field: Louise Elstow, Guillaume Foliot-Leprince, Adrian House and El Parker.

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Checking your progress …

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Your task

In the video, you can see an example of a situation where training was vital in an emergency situation.

Introduce yourself and share why you want to learn more about training and exercising in emergency and disaster management.

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