This course will provide guidance on nuclear or radiological emergency response organization and concept of operations, initial tasks to be performed by the lead emergency response commander, response team structure, protection of responders, monitoring and decontamination of public and responders, monitoring and decontamination of vehicles and equipment. It will further go into tasks of specific responders/ teams such as law enforcement team, fire brigade, emergency medical service, etc. The Tutorial consists from 4 parts and describes in details Basic Concepts, Use of Action Guides, Response tasks and Response Documents to be Created in the Preparedness Phase. The Tutorial assigned for pedagogues’ and students involved in Master’s Program “Emergency Preparedness and Response”.

• CONTENT
• LIST OF ABBREVIATED TERMS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1.BASIC CONCEPTS
  • 1.1. The nuclear or radiological emergency
  • 1.2. The hazards involved in a nuclear or radiological emergency
  • 1.3. Important lessons learned from first response to past emergencies
  • 1.4. Protecting emergency workers and helpers in a nuclear or radiological emergency
    • 1.4.1. Concept of emergency worker
    • 1.4.2. Concept of helpers
    • 1.4.3. Radiation protection of emergency workers. Personal protective equipment
    • 1.4.4. Dose restrictions and dose management
    • 1.4.5. ‘Just in time training’ for non-designated emergency workers
  • 1.5. Concept of operations
  • 1.6. Roles and responsibilities in emergency preparedness and response
  • 1.7. Initial assessment and establishing of response areas and facilities
  • 1.8. Minimum capability for effective first response
  • Control questions for Chapter 1
• 2.USE OF ACTION GUIDES
  • 2.1. Action Guides for Incident Commander
    • 2.1.1. General on-scene response to a nuclear or radiological emergency
    • 2.1.2. Response to different radiological scenarios
  • 2.2. Action Guides for Specific First Responders
    • 2.2.1. Resource coordinator
    • 2.2.2. Fire brigade
    • 2.2.3. Emergency medical service (EMS)
    • 2.2.4. Law enforcement/security team
    • 2.2.5. Forensic evidence management team (FEMT)
    • 2.2.6. Public information officer/team
    • 2.2.7. Local hospital
    • 2.2.8. National emergency operations centre
    • 2.2.9. First responder radiation monitor
    • Control questions for Chapter 2
• 3.RESPONSE TASKS
  • 3.1. Assessment of the hazard and establishment of inner cordoned area
  • 3.2. Personnel protection guidelines
  • 3.3. Public protection guidelines
  • 3.4. Public registration
  • 3.5. Monitoring of the public and responders
  • 3.6. Public decontamination
  • 3.7. Response contamination control
  • 3.8. Monitoring/decontamination of vehicles and equipment
  • 3.9. Field triage for mass casualties
  • Control questions for Chapter 3
• 4.RESPONSE DOCUMENTS TO BE CREATED IN THE PREPAREDNESS PHASE
  • 4.1. Response Cards
  • 4.2. Registry forms
  • 4.3. Sample media releases
  • 4.4. Frequently asked questions in a nuclear or radiological emergency: suggested answers
  • Control questions for Chapter 4
• CONCLUSION
• LITERATURE
• Annex 1
• Annex 2
• Annex 3