Advanced Radiological Incident Operations

The Advanced Radiological Incident Operations course is a five-day course that provides participants with the advanced skills necessary to safely respond to and manage incidents involving radiological hazards. Participants apply these skills in tabletop exercises based on realistic radiological incident scenarios, set within the Incident Command System structure.

Course Delivery

• Resident (National Emergency Training Centers – Center for Domestic Preparedness -CDP)

Any member of an organized federal, state, local, or tribal radiological/hazardous materials response team who has responsibility for responding to or managing a radiological incident. These individuals may be members of federal, state, tribal, local, and private-sector response teams. Local or tribal participants should reside within either of two Emergency Planning Zones (EPZ). The two EPZs are described as 1) the plume exposure pathway EPZ has a radius of about 10 miles from the reactor site, or 2) the ingestion exposure pathway EPZ has a radius of about 50 miles from the reactor site.

To be eligible for the course, the student must successfully complete the following courses:

• PER-904, Radiological Emergency Operations; or
• PER-240, WMD Radiological/Nuclear Responder Operations Course or PER-241 Radiological /Nuclear Course for HAZMAT Technicians.

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is an Accredited Provider (AP) of Continuing Education Units (CEU) and is authorized to award the following CEUs for successful completion of this activity: 

• IACET (International Association of Continuing Education and Training) – 4.0 CEUs
• CDPH (California Department of Public Health) Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) Program – 40 CEUs