Joint Hazard Assessment Team (JHAT)
This course will help prepare hazardous materials technicians and CBRN operators to serve on a Joint Hazard Assessment Team (JHAT) at special events including sporting events, parades, dignitary visits, festivals, ceremonies, and other mass-gatherings.
The training will cover planning considerations and operational guidance to prepare JHAT members to respond to HazMat/CBRN threats, hoaxes, and accidents that can disrupt or endanger an event. Participants will learn small-unit tactics, including dismounted operations and ATV/UTV based response operations to perform threat investigations, adjudication, mitigation, and communications.
This course can be expanded to include integrated JHAT operations with public safety bomb squads, SWAT teams, tactical/event EMS providers.
Course Topics
- JHAT concept of operations
- Inter-agency operations including federal law enforcement
- HazMat/CBRN threats to events and mass gatherings
- Planning considerations for events
- Event/venue threat and risk assessments
- Dignitary security considerations
- Site surveys and security pre-sweeps
- Rapid assessment guidelines
- Dismounted and ATV/UTV operations
- Small-scale and improvised deconĀ