WMD Awareness Training Course Description

This eight hour course is designed for all campus public safety personnel who could participate in a response to a WMD incident. Regardless of rank or job title, this course provides important, up to date information on WMD preparedness. There is no fee to attend the training. Upon successful completion participants will receive a certificate of attendance and documentation for Continuing Education Units.

The course presentation includes properties, effects of, and methods of delivery/dispersal of potential WMD weapons. It addresses priorities for protection of persons, environment and property during WMD incidents. Specifically, it includes discussion of procedures that campus public safety personnel can implement to protect themselves and others as well as describing decontamination procedures appropriate for WMD events.

This course is being funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness.

The curriculum was developed by Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (LSU) and the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA)