CSAR Search Management Education
Presented By
The Colorado Search and Rescue Association
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CSAR Basic Search management Class
7 Thursday night Remote/Online Sessions from 6-9: March 10th - April 21st. In-person practicum to be held at the Leadville Colorado Mountain College Campus, Climax Leadership Center: April 23rd and 24th. $175 attendance fee - Included text: Managing the Land Search Operation. Recommended Text/Mobile App: Lost Person Behavior.
Registration will open in early February.
Course Description
The CSAR Basic Search Management course is runs remotely for 7 weeks every Thursday night from 6-9pm, with an in-person practicum on the weekend ending the course. The class is designed to familiarize students with a bigger picture understanding of searches, focus and practice in the management roles of a search, along with getting students to think about the management handoff, and multi-day search events.
- Manage a search effort for single or multiple missing or lost persons from incident start-up through hand-off for the second operational period.
- Participate as an overhead team member on a search incident for a missing or lost person.
- Understand the importance of a written preplan for a successful and effective search incident.
- Understand fundamental legal and jurisdictional issues pertaining to search incidents.
- Be capable of investigating a search incident including gathering searching data and planning data.
- Be familiar with the basic types of search resources and discuss their function and limitations.
- Understand the importance and methods used to utilize PLBs, Satellite Messengers, and Cell Phone Forensics.
- Demonstrate the ability to create a search Incident Action Plan (IAP) including determining urgency, setting objectives, determining strategies and initiating tactics.
- Understand Reflex Tasking strategies that are based on Lost Person Behavior categories.
- Demonstrate the ability to establish a workable and realistic probable search area and searchable subdivisions in a search management exercise.
- Demonstrate the ability to record incident progress utilizing appropriate ICS forms and mapping techniques.
- Understand the mechanism and detail required for hand-off to the incoming second operational period management team.
Questions?
Contact the CSAR Education Committee
csar_education@coloradosar.org