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 decon