Category - Suppression Skills

S404 - Safety Officer

Reviewed: 2002 Hours: 24

Course Description:

This course is designed to meet the training needs of the safety officer type 2 (SOF2) position in the incident command system. Topics include: safety officer effectiveness, analysis techniques, safety messages, briefings and reports, and high hazard operations.

Objectives:

Display the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary to be a safety officer type 2 (SOF2).

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as a safety officer type 2 (SOF2).

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead and unit instructors must be qualified safety officer type 2s (SOF2).

Also see Instructor Certification at the beginning of the Field Manager's Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Qualified as a division/group supervisor (DIVS).

Offer Level:
Regional, state, or area

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 12-17-2009.

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