Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Emergency Management

​​When disaster s​trikes, emergency management leaders are the first on the ground assessing risk, mitigating those risks, organizing aid groups and first responders, acquiring resources and opening clear channels of communication. They make a difference in times of tragedy and keep people safe during hurricanes, forest fires, other natural disasters, and man-made disasters. ​


What These Jobs Do: 

  • Create preparedness programs
  • Establish protocol for emergencies
  • Coordinate local, regional and national response services
  • Assess types of needs necessary
  • Respond to disasters

Findlay All-Hazards 


Students in Findlay's ESH and Sustainability major benefit from the use of the Findlay All-Hazards Training Center. Utilized by professionals in the field, this training center boasts major real-life training props. Findlay All Hazards training is based on the kinds of incidents that emergency responders face in the real world. We deliver coursework through a variety of methods, including tabletop and full-scale field exercises that incorporate the latest available technologies and equipment. For more information visit www.findlayallhazards.com/courses

 



Course Offerings for Emergency Management

In addition to the core ESH&S courses, you can take the following elective courses that are geared toward the practice of emergency management. 


Emergency Management Finance (3​​ hrs) 

This course will focus on two areas of emergency management, contr​acting for goods and services before, during, and after an emergency; and financial management of emergencies from the point of view of governmental agencies, businesses, and individuals. 


Emergency Management​ Law (3 hrs) 

This course will focus on the United States and Ohio statutes, regulations, and standards that govern emergency management. The class will review the Patriot Act; Disaster Mitigation Act; Stafford Emergency Assistance and Disaster Relief Act; 44 C.F.R.; Emergency Management and Assistance; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; Federal C​​ivil Defense Act of 1950, as amended; Public Law 96-342, Improved Civil Defense, 1980; Pollution Prevention Act; and the relevant Ohio statutes, regulations, and policies as they pertain to the planning for and response to all hazards emergency response. 


Threat & Vulnerability Assessment & Management (3 hrs) 

This capstone course applies the principles of threat and vulnerability assessment to characterize risks facing communities and workplaces using a case-study approach. Class discussions will cover such hazards as hazard and threat recognition, vulnerability analysis, biohazards, trend analysis, risk mitigation, continuity of business operations, and mutual aid agreements for the private sector. Risk-based decision methods are introduced. 


All Hazards Emergency Planning (3 hrs) 

This capstone course will be the culminating course in the emergency planning portion of the program. It will bring together concepts and procedures from previous course work and will address the following topics: Communications interoperability, mutual aid agreements, use of the national model proposed by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Emergency Management Association (NEMA), business continuity, resource management, donations management, debris management, volunteer management, and leadership. ​