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Emergency Management: Risk, Incidents and Leadership (FutureLearn)

Offered by Coventry University,

An introduction to managing risk and providing leadership during emergency incidents. Emergency managers understand the importance of managing risks during dynamic incidents. This online course will provide you with an introduction to the concepts, issues, processes and structures relevant to the management of risk during the emergency phase of an incident.

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This will include an examination of the relationship between formal risk management and command systems and leadership, including a look at the complex world of decision-making.

What topics will you cover?

Risk management and incident command systems
The incident timeline
Incident review and debrief processes
Leadership
Decision-making and situational awareness

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Explain what factors influence risk and why risk management is important to the incident manager?
Describe various incident commands systems
Describe leadership in the context of emergency incidents
Evaluate the relationship between leadership and followership.
Describe how people make decisions and how leadership and followership influence decision-making processes?
why emergency incidents go wrong and why good situational awareness is so important in preventing disasters.

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