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RESIDENT COURSES—
HAZUS-MH
EmErgEncy managEmEnt InstItutE • 2011-2012 • catalog of coursEs
the course includes a demonstration of HAZUS-MH
and a discussion of how the skills learned in the
class apply to HAZUS-MH users. The class concludes
with a group exercise in which participants apply
the skills that they have learned to solve a realistic
problem.
While this course does not provide hands-on instruction
specifically on HAZUS-MH, all exercises use
HAZUS-MH inventory and model output and therefore
participants become familiar with elements of
HAZUS-MH while learning the underlying GIS tools
upon which HAZUS-MH depends.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for State
and local emergency managers; State and local GIS
specialists responsible for risk assessment activities;
regional personnel responsible for mitigation and
response activities; other Federal agencies with a
need to conduct risk assessment; and State and local
planners.
Participants must currently use or be planning to use
GIS and HAZUS.
Course Length: 4 days
CEUs: 2.8
Application of HAZUS-MH for Risk
Assessment (E296)
This course provides participants with an understanding
of how they can use the HAZUS-MH risk
assessment methodology and tools to assist them in
their efforts to conduct the community risk assessments
that are necessary to be compliant with the
ongoing requirements of the Disaster Mitigation Act
of 2000 which, among other things, sets conditions
which must be met for communities to be
eligible to receive certain disaster relief funding.
The course includes hands-on computer exercises
using the HAZUS-MH software and other tools such
as the HAZUS-MH Risk Assessment Tool and Flood
Wizard to perform risk assessment-related tasks. It
focuses on the process of applying the wealth of
information that HAZUS-MH includes, and that it
can produce, to the risk assessment process rather
than on learning the process of actually running
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HAZUS-MH. A combination of individual as well as
group hands-on exercises leads the class through the
step-by-step process of conducting a risk assessment
including hazard identification, profiling of hazards,
developing asset inventories, estimating losses, and
prioritizing mitigation options.
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course includes
FEMA regional staff and State and local emergency
management planners.
Prerequisites:
Required: E313, Basic HAZUS-MH, course.
Course Length: 4 days
CEUs: 2.8
Basic HAZUS-MH (E313)
This course provides participants with an understanding
of the multi-hazard applications of
HAZUS-MH toward mitigation, response, recovery,
and risk management for earthquake, flood, and
hurricane hazards. It also discusses how HAZUS-MH
inventory data can be applied to assessing the exposure
to other types of hazards.
During the first part of the course, participants
are led through an introduction of HAZUS-MH,
the process of software installation, definition of a
geographic area of interest, and an overview of the
components of the HAZUS-MH user interface. They
are then provided with a combination of lectures
and hands-on exercises that help them understand
how HAZUS-MH can be used to define and
analyze a hazard and the types of information that
HAZUS-MH can produce. The course focuses on a
level 1 analysis which makes it possible to perform
a complete hazard analysis with minimal to no additional
input of data beyond what is installed with
the application. It also prepares participants who
are interested in integrating their own data into the
HAZUS-MH analysis process with the foundation of
skills that are necessary to successfully complete the
advanced HAZUS-MH courses where those techniques
are taught.