This CD-ROM-Based independent study course and accompanying job-aid manual are designed for a wide audience encompassing the range of personnel with a role to play in the development of a special event plan. Participants include those who have a general awareness of their own roles but do not have a previous detailed or extensive knowledge of special event planning. For example, the audience might include relatively new emergency managers, personnel from emergency operations organizations such as police, fire, medical services, and public works, and representatives from other community organizations, both public and private, for whom special event planning is not a regular responsibility.

The suggested guidelines in this independent study course and accompanying job aid manual have been developed from a number of sources, and most are applicable to a wide range of mass public gatherings.

FEMA recognizes that no two events or situations are identical. While this independent study course and job-aid manual provide an overview to planning considerations and coping with special events and they do not provide guidelines that are universally applicable or without need of modification to the specifics of a particular event.

For any questions related to the course, please send email directly to trainwebmaster@dhs.gov, and indicate the number of the course in your e-mail.

Please Note:
The security FEMA provides on the EMI Independent Study Courses requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, or Netscape version 4.76 or above. Both browsers are available as free downloads  by clicking the links above.

Please note that the downloaded material are the Job Aids NOT the course. The revised online course materials will be done in Sept 2005.

• Revisied Job Aid Manual - PDF
• Job Aid Cover - PDF
• Download SECP Final Exam Questions - PDF
• Take Final Exam