OSC 2007 Evaluation Report

2007 OSC Readiness Training Program Evaluation Report
• I hope positions will be available each year to include state OSC personnel in this kind of training
conference. I believe it was beneficial to me and would benefit most of the rest of the responders
and managers on my team in Georgia.
• I wish I had signed up my whole office for this training.
• It is not as important for the RSC to attend as OSCs and IMT members.
• It was great that the RSC got to attend.
• Mostly for newer OSCs.
• OSC Readiness is some of the best training available, both because of the quality of the courses
and the energy of the participants.
• Response program staff should attend for response cross training. Never know what the next
response will entail.
• RSC is great.
• Project officers and contract officers working in the program office.
• Some classes should be made mandatory – it is a good opportunity to ensure certain material is
available to a wider audience.
• To gain understanding and knowledge about the OSCs’ job.
• Yes, especially new OSCs or field people and management as well.
• You are probably wondering why I disagree that others should take the course. Let me clarify
that I think the group should stay together in preparation, like the military. You want trained
personnel that have been in the same teams to continue the buddy system, but at the same time
open the window for recruitments, since again like the military there is always room for more
people to train; re-enforcements.
Comments on usefulness of the information provided in the morning plenary sessions
General comments
• Good team building time; good format for
broad based subject and topics.
• Help! Please no more Beatles references.
• While some speakers were more interesting
to me than others, I heard positive
comments from other attendees about the
information being shared.
• However, it is a useful place to distribute
information [without taking the time to]
time to go too far in depth [which the
information] does not require.
• Morning plenary sessions were not helpful
for state representatives.
• Some speeches seem dry — information
useful — hot sites very helpful to a variety
of staff.
• The only good plenary was Tom Dunne’s
talk. (Two responses) The others were not
useful at all. It was very embarrassing to
The morning plenary sessions provided useful
information about current topics of interest
related to removal and emergency responders.
Disagree
10%
Strongly
Disagree
1%
Did Not
Attend
4%
the Region 5 Regional Administrator, Mary Gade, when no one introduced her to the crowd.
How many times do we get a Regional Administrator to come and no one introduces her?
Agree
60%
Strongly
Agree
25%
B-7 Comments about the Training Program