Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX)
The TEEX-Preparedness Program focuses on training professionals to be resilient in the face of catastrophic disasters. Eventually, your incident management team will be challenged. Is it ready? Will plans and procedures work? Will the team perform? Does it have what it needs to get the job done? Is it really ready? How do you know?
A well-designed, expertly taught training and exercise program can answer these questions and more. It can make a good plan better. It can make a sound team stronger. It can demonstrate a need for added resources. Most of all, effective training and exercising can make your business and community safer and better prepared for any contingency.
Training begins with preparedness and coordination planning and progresses through incident response and on to recovery. At TEEX, simulation-based and/ or virtual reality training and exercises are available for incident management, jurisdictional crisis management training and multiagency coordination. By leveraging its dynamic training venues, customizable simulation-based software and comprehensive operational experience, TEEX is able to provide the most realistic training possible for professionals, allowing participants to become immersed in a realistic training environment to develop decision-making, leadership and incident management skills.
The TEEX-Preparedness Program offers an array of custom emergency and incident management training, exercise and technical assistance programs for public and private organizations.
Industrial incident management
Courses address specific industry needs using customized, hands-on scenarios. Custom courses can be tailored to a wide range of audiences, from operational staff to executive-level management. Based on specific needs, this program customizes and delivers Incident Command System (ICS) 100, 200, 300 and 400; industrial/private sector position-specific training; and industrial/ private sector incident management team training and exercises.
Exercise and technical assistance
Utilizing the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) as a guide, TEEX works with its clients to develop an exercise or exercise program that addresses the priorities established by an organization's leaders. Based on specific needs, this program designs, develops and delivers discussions, seminars, workshops, games, drills, tabletop exercises, functional exercises and full-scale exercises.
Jurisdictional crisis management
TEEX offers customizable training designed to help organizations develop and sustain their incident management skills, staff responsibilities, and related situational awareness and decision-making skills using a computer-driven training simulation. Courses provide total immersion in an emergency management/incident management training environment and allow supervisory- level responders and emergency operations personnel a practical, simulated experience in the management and support of a large-scale incident. Based on specific needs, this program designs, develops and delivers "Jurisdictional Crisis Incident Management -- Incident Command Post Training" and "Jurisdictional Crisis Emergency Management -- Emergency Operations Center Training."
And much more
Let the TEEX-Preparedness Program help you meet your training and exercise needs today. Its educators are subject matter experts and emergency response professionals offering decades of real-world experience. TEEX works closely with its customers and utilizes adult learning methodologies that maximize learning objectives and enhance response capabilities.
Flexible and adaptable to any organization -- including industrial settings, universities, hospitals, and private and public agencies -- courses can be delivered at any location worldwide, including the Emergency Operations Training Center in College Station, Texas.
For more information, contact Program Director Mike Gibler at (979) 458-5616 or Mike.Gibler@teex.tamu. edu. Additional course information can be found at www.teex.org/esti under "Services."
