Content
Course content
This course covers the following topics:
- Risks faced by ARFF responders at bomb threat incidents.
- Ensuring the safety of both the public and responding personnel.
- Key features / components of a bomb.
- Different ways a bomb can cause damage.
- Effects of a bomb blast.
- How to identify suspicious letters and packages.
- Different types of bombs and explosives.
- Case study – Brussels, Belgium 2016.
- Common operating procedures for responding to a bomb threat.
- General considerations for evacuation.
- Considerations for size-up.
- Scenarios involving a bomb threat / explosion – prompting learners to consider the risks, hazards, and challenges associated with the incident, and appropriate safety measures and response procedures and tactics.
