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Preparedness and Response to Agricultural Terrorism

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This course provides participants with the skills they need to prepare for and respond to an agricultural terrorist attack on their area’s food supply. Participants are trained to identify and recruit those in their neighborhood whose daily activities place them in a unique position to identify potential threats to the cultivation, production, processing, transportation, or distribution of the Nation’s food supply. Participants will develop an incident response plan for their area and learn to identify and obtain federal, state, county/parish, or municipal resources that can protect the agricultural resources of the United States.

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Recognize potential terrorist groups and/or individuals and identify weapons of mass destruction (WMD) agents, sources, and dispersion methods
• Identify existing threats to the infrastructure of the U.S. agricultural industry and explain how animal pathogens and plant pests and pathogens can be an agricultural terrorist threat
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of state and federal agencies that regulate food processing, transportation, and/or distribution as well as list food processing and distribution safeguards and recommended responses to a food-borne disease outbreak
• Discuss specific hazards with the potential to be used in an agroterrorist incident affecting the U.S. food processing industry
• Describe how assessment techniques, food defense measures, surveillance, and preparedness planning can assist in the prevention and deterrence of agroterrorism
• Recognize high-probability agroterrorism events and be aware of several indicators that may characterize an agroterrorist event

• Describe how an integrated operational response to an agroterrorism event is organized and identify the responsibilities of the relevant state and federal government agencies for such a response
• Summarize approaches for efficient remediation that may be considered following an agroterrorism incident as well as discuss operational safety and critical incident and stress management actions that educators, agents, farmers, and community leaders can use to help protect emergency response personnel and to help restore consumer confidence in the safety of the food supply
• Develop strategies for developing recovery plans, predict effects of agroterrorism on market forces, and identify government assistance programs needed for recovery
• Apply the knowledge gained in this course to scenarios applicable to assets and needs relative to the participants’ local community

Target Audience/Discipline
EMS, EMA, FS, GA, HZ, LE, PH

Scheduling
Contact a NCBRT training coordinator today to schedule this course.

Min/Max Enrollment Min 20; Max 40

Hours 24.0

Format Instructor-Led Training (Direct Delivery; Train-the-Trainer)

DHS Course # MGT-322, MGT-322-1

Prerequisites
• Completion of a WMD Awareness-level training course
• Familiarity with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Framework (NRF)
• Government-issued identification card