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Problem 2: Inaccessibility of the Port Complex SELECTION CRITERIA This study uses the following criteria to evaluate alternative solutions for providing CERT training to port workers. ¸ Speed ¸ Cost ¸ Instructors’ expertise ¸ Strain on resources 1) Speed: A training program for port workers must be launched as soon as possible. Given the high probability for a terrorist attack at the port complex, port workers should begin CERT training as soon as possible. Moreover, the program should seek to train the target percentage of workers as quickly as possible. 2) Cost: Any training program must work within constraints provided by available funds. Although the benefits of a CERT training program for port workers justifies potentially high costs, available funds are limited. 3) Instructors’ expertise: Teachers must have a thorough understanding of CERT topics. The port complex is an unusual location that presents extreme environmental hazards for any emergency response situation, including docks surrounded by water; toxic and flammable liquids; labyrinthine corridors of steel shipping containers; hundreds of warehouses containing unknown products; heavy machinery; and shifting coastal winds. It is essential that CERT trainers for this port program are first response experts, so that they can apply their expertise to provide port workers effective CERT training that has been tailored for these unusually treacherous conditions. 4) Resource depletion: The solution should seek to minimize depletion of a single agency’s resources. Given that resources are scarce for all first response agencies, the solution should seek not to burden one agency’s existing resources to provide all of the CERT training. Depletion of one agency’s resources may create other public safety problems within that agency’s jurisdiction. 44 Department of Policy Studies, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research
ALTERNATIVES Problem 2: Inaccessibility of the Port Complex 1) Hire four full-time CERT instructors to train port workers. Annual cost to train 10% - 30%: $255,000 - $265,000 114 Los Angeles Fire Department could seek additional funds to hire and train four additional CERT instructors who would be dedicated full-time to training workers at the port complex. Strengths: This program would be able to train 5000 workers each year. Moreover, it utilizes firefighters’ expertise without placing substantial burdens on the Los Angeles Fire Department’s existing resources. Drawbacks: This program may not be able to launch soon enough. From the moment the Los Angeles Fire Department receives funding for these firefighters, it would take at least six months to both hire and train them, until they could begin teaching. 115 Realistically, the launch of this alternative could be delayed until 2004. 2) Create an interagency CERT Joint Training Team for the port complex. Annual cost to train 10% - 30%: $315,000 - $325,000 116 The Los Angeles and Long Beach Fire Departments, Los Angeles County Fire Department, and Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department could each contribute one full-time CERT trainer from their existing staffs. In addition, the American Red Cross (Red Cross) could provide an instructor to teach CERT modules that do not require instruction from professional first responders. These modules could include Disaster Preparedness; Disaster Medical Operations, which teaches concepts such as first aid; and Disaster Psychology and Team Organization. This multi-agency, cooperative training structure would be similar to that of an existing, local law enforcement training organization, the South Bay Regional Training Center. Strengths: By using existing CERT trainers from various agencies, the Joint Training Team could begin training port workers this year. In addition, using the Red Cross to teach some of the modules may increase the number of classes that can be taught simultaneously, and therefore increase the speed with which the target percentage of workers can be trained. Finally, this program achieves these gains by leveraging the expertise of both the professional first responders and the Red Cross instructors. 114 Estimates by PSAPP Team based on email correspondence with Captain Don Lee, Firefighter Jim Harkins, and Firefighter Stacy Gerlich. See Appendix C for additional details. 115 Firefighter Stacy Gerlich, interview by Seth Jacobson, Los Angeles, CA, 4 March 2003. 116 Estimates by PSAPP Team based on email correspondence with Captain Don Lee, Firefighter Jim Harkins, and Firefighter Stacy Gerlich. See Appendix C for additional details. Allen, Clampitt, Hipp, and Jacobson 45
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