Training Services
PARATUS will design training packages to meet your specific needs. Below are some samples of the types of training we offer.
Management Training 
The PARATUS Group believes that effective emergency management must balance the wide-ranging, often conflicting concerns of the major stakeholders in a community. This is more than a matter of diplomacy: it's a science. Decisions must be made that can incorporate sensitivities to large numbers of planning issues and variables.
We can show you how to develop an approach that makes apparent the quantitative relationships between such issues, and the necessary trade-offs involved in the decision process. Such information can particularly facilitate public relations efforts to explain planning decisions to the community.
Managers must have accurate and objective data to answers questions such as:
- What risks or accidents should I plan for?
- Will my current response system adequately protect people at risk?
- How can I improve my response system with limited funds and resources?
- Which protective actions are most effective for my situation?
- How can I effectively communicate risk-related information to the public?
Incident Command Systems
No single agency or department can handle an emergency of any scale alone. Emergency response agencies world-wide recognize the Incide
nt Command System organization as a response management standard built around five major components: Command; Planning; Operations; Logistics; and Finance/Administration.
The PARATUS Group can help you understand the need a formalized management structure that lends consistency, fosters efficiency, and provides direction during a response.
Emergency Operations Centres / Control Group
An efficient Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a key component of an effective comprehensive emergency management program and is at the heart of any major response operation.
The PARATUS Group can help ensure your EOC is ready to perform this vital function when you need it most with careful planning of space configuration, system requirements, staffing needs, standard procedure development, and continuous EOC activation process testing and exercising. An effective EOC needs to manage and analyze vast quantities of data to provide decision makers with quick, reliable information.
Delivery of Emergency Social Services (ESS) in a large scale catastrophe
If there is a population of more than 100,000 people in your jurisdiction, you should plan for a minimum of 50,000 people being impacted by a large scale catastrophe such as an attack using Weapons of Mass Destruction or a Pandemic. The PARATUS Group has expertise in planning and delivering ESS , especially in the areas of mass care, health/mental health services, safety and security, logistics, public affairs, government and inter-agency liaison and staffing, including utilizing local disaster volunteers.