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2007 OSC Readiness Training Program Evaluation Report • Sampling and Decon for Biohazards. • Sediment Remediation Options. • Shorter versions of ERT oil training. • Specific decon methods - scenarios for specific chemical /biological agents.... rather than generic threat discussions. Need to show value in communicating effectively with local communities and addressing their concerns. • Steve Mason’s ESF-10 course. • Swift water, small volume oil spill response. • The Avian Influenza class is one that would lend itself to a question and answer session with USDA, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances (OPPTS), Office of Water (OW), Air, and experienced OSCs. • TRIAD for OSCs. Not TRIAD for RPMs. TRIAD can be used by OSCs if they understand when, where, and how. • Vapor intrusion (please continue... it is a growing topic). • Visual Sample Plan training. Bucket chemistry was always a fun refresher. Maybe there should be an advanced bucket chemistry. • With the increased attention on Water Security and Response and the ongoing development of tools/initiatives, I feel the Water System Response Course could be lengthened to a full day. • WMD responses. • WMD responses, what does the EPA do, lab capacity, sampling, disposal, transport. Comments on topics or courses which should be omitted • Anything that is not taught by an OSC. I go to these meetings and expect it to be training by OSCs for OSCs, not to receive a lecture similar to ones I had in college. There should be more class participation. • Best Management Practices — simple, the class needs to be revamped. • Combine Avian Flu and Infectious Diseases. • Hot-Sites from Friday session. • How to Be Nice and Play Well With Others in the Contracts Environment. (Two responses) • Knowing and Using the NCP, find a team that can teach the material; it is very important material and needs to be taught again. • I was an instructor (case study) in the “Best Management Practices for Efficient Sampling Design” course. This course has some great potential if it was to be redesigned for the OSC. Way too much time was spent with stats. I know of very few OSCs who would spend the time to do the stats presented in this course. Rather, maybe spend time talking about sampling for a Site Assessment or sampling during an ER. The main instructor for this course needs to go. This course could be great if it was geared toward the OSC. Also, this course should be 4 hours, not 8. • ICS. • Infectious Disease, not so much the topic, but that version. • Integrity Testing of Pipes. • Katrina update.... • Less bio-terror. • Radiological and bioterrorism. • RadNET the other radiological course — Air Monitoring for Radiation. • Sampling Design. B-19 Comments about the Training Program
2007 OSC Readiness Training Program Evaluation Report • Plenary Sessions unless they are more appropriate for OSCs. • RAT training (this should be region specific with your START contractors). • Tank and Pipe Inspection, the course is too limited to inspectors out in the field. • The one course — People, Relationships, and Interaction with Incident Management was really bad. It focused on segregating people into ‘colors.’ I really dislike stereotyping people. It had nothing to do with ICS and was not what I thought it would be; consequently, I only stayed in it a half day. • There seemed to be too many “Biothreats” related courses. • Training needs of OSCs are too diversified to recommend deletion of any specific course. • Update courses — disaster response with new events. Try to include more tabletops in some classes. Comments on topics for which additional training or support is needed • Aboveground Storage Tanks and terminal facilities regulations and inspection information. • Biological agents. • Bring in other Federal agencies, like FEMA, to speak. • Chemical weapons assessment and decon. But please not the decon team. Find someone who has actually done the work, not just read about it. • Coastal oil spill response (overall subject), cost recovery, communications. • Continuing of operations — what will that mean for OSCs? During a pandemic? During a time where regional RRC becomes incapacitated due to either a terrorist event or a natural disaster! • DOT Regulations, ICS. • Explosives, Communications within ICS structure, Radio Communications. • For RSC: OJT with OSCs and inclusion in regional training exercises. • Have an OSC meeting to discuss priorities which could be forwarded to the RPMs. • Health and Safety. • Contracts. • Interaction with the USCG Strike Force. Perhaps a lecture or as a panel guest. • Introduction to table top exercises for ERs, WMDs, INS, etc. • Longer courses for HAZCAT — too many topics for short amount of time. • More hands-on options - applied learning/less lecture - require sessions to have interactive component. • More radiation training — specifically Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center. • More RSC related stuff — field related, office related. • New technological advances available to combat inland and marine oil spills (skimmers, booms, dispersants, etc.). • Pesticides and Biohazard Decontamination Waste Treatment and Disposal Technologies. • Relocation — reimbursement of personal property. • Response Contracts — needs work - good topic. • Risk Communications; particularly for emergency response operations. • Sampling and decon for biohazards. • Specific soil sampling strategy taught by OSCs — not just an overview but targeted toward specific contaminants — polychlorinated biphenyls, chromium/metals, volatile organic compounds, etc. B-20 Comments about the Training Program
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