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Fundamentals of Threats and Hazards (L-102) (11-11-0102) - 014

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Brief Description: This courses goal is to see scientific principles can be used before, during, and after a disaster

Full Description: The goal of this course is to understand how scientific principles can be used before, during, and after a disaster, including a basic understanding of scientific terminology as it applies to Emergency Management.

Course Objectives:
-Indicate the relationship between science and our understanding of disasters.
-Describe how scientific understanding can help with managing disaster-related risks.
-Indicate how climatological principles and processes influence natural hazards, including convective storms, hurricanes, nor’easters, winter storms, and extreme cold temperatures.
-Indicate how earth science principles and processes influence surface hazards such as floods and mass wasting.
-Indicate how earth science principles and processes influence geological hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes.
-Indicate how climatological principles and processes influence extreme heat, drought, and wildfires.
-Indicate the scientific basis for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards, explosives (CBRNE), and their impact on society.

Target Audience: Newly appointed emergency managers from State, local, tribal, territorial, and Federal emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management.

Prerequisites: If a participant is taking this course as a part of the Academy, then they should take L0101: Foundations of Emergency Management first, but this is not required. If a participant is taking this course on its own for its science information and not in the fulfillment of the Academy requirements, there are no prerequisites.

Cost: There is no fee for the course. Food, lodging, & transportation costs are responsibilities of the participant.

Course Completion Requirements: It is mandatory that the participant complete all 24 hours of this course to receive full credit. Anything less will result in the participant’s need to re-register for another course and start from the beginning."

Training Dates: 02/03/2026 - 02/05/2026

Training Times: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Prerequisites: Do you require reasonable accommodations in order to attend this course (if you select yes then you will be contacted by our office before the first day of class to discuss further).

Registration Dates: 10/06/2025 - 01/13/2026

Available Seats: 3

Hours: 24h 0m

Fee: None Specified

Training Location: 41 - Queens County
NYC Health
42-09 28th St
Long Island City, NY 11101 (Queens County)

Reporting Instructions: Dress is business casual.

Signup Details: No Show Policy: Failure to attend a class you have registered for can result in restriction on future course attendance and agency notification. It is the students responsibility to notify us in a timely manner if you cannot attend.

Please follow these directions below in regard to providing the required prerequisites. Each prerequisite must be filled before a student can submit their request to attend this course.

To submit a prerequisite, under the “registrant prerequisites” section of the registration students should click on “update fulfillment” to the right of the requirement. This will bring students to their training history. FEMA independent study courses in DHSES LMS all have a course date of 01/01/2000 and will be listed under the “other periods” drop down. Select the course that fills the prerequisite requirement and then select the second option “the requirement has been met or exceeded” under fulfillment at the bottom of the page and click save. If there are multiple prerequisites students will need to repeat these steps for each one.

If the prerequisite does not appear in your training history then select “request waiver” under fulfillment and provide clarifying comments when prompted that states you will email the prerequisite to OEM directly and click save. Email all course prerequisites to oem.training@dhses.ny.gov, please include what course you are registering for in the body of the email.

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