Emergency Management: Risk, Incidents and Leadership (FutureLearn)

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.