EMC049 Mandatory Training 3/4
To:   Emergency Communications Units - Information Bulletin
To:   Emergency Management Agencies via Internet and Radio
By:   Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) of the
      California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

EMC049  Mandatory Training 3/4       For Release 10/14/96
 
This is a continuation of a reply to a situation where the
unit faced agency mandated training. The following was 
suggested as a possible or supplemental alternative curriculum.

Ideas for obtaining help and guidance in training for
communicators:

To get help on personnel to do training and related ideas:

1. Get together with the local Urban Search and Rescue
Communications Team leader(s) and get their help from what
training they received. The Communications Team leader normally
takes a 2 week mandatory course in Boise plus serving on a field
event as an assistant; real on-the-job training, in other words.  

2. Contact local forestry or other field response agencies (the
ones that put people in hazardous places) for what and how they
train. 

3. Contact the military (Army probably the best) for what
training they had in field activities, including antenna
erection. 

4. Contact government(s) telecommunications agencies (where
technicians work that maintain the microwave, radio towers, etc.)
and see what training they received. 

5. Contact cellular companies, microwave companies, phone
companies and check with their technicians (who work on
antenna's, equipment, etc.) and discuss their training.

Any of the above sources (the technicians, the administrators
could be the basis of a training course or session on a
particular topic; they may teach it for you....lots of these
people are good at that - often better than they think, since
their experiences make for great attention-getters.


ACS Web page: http://www.garlic.com/oes    BBS 916-262-1657
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OES ACS staff manager Stan Harter, Email seh@oes.ca.gov
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