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Module 1: Introduction to Emergency Communications Systems

Overview/Description

This course presents an introduction to Emergency Communications Systems concepts and applications

Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:

• Identify the general characteristics of an ECS
• Describe the ECS monitoring requirements
• Distinguish among ECS requirements in Chapter 24, other NFPA 72 Chapters, and in other Codes
• Compare the qualities of effective ECSs with unacceptable ECS designs
• Know the requirements for approving ECS messages
• Define the ECS communication system-types and their application
• Explain the relationship between intelligibility and audibility
• Identify pathway survivability requirements
• List the requirements and equipment used in an ECS acceptance test
• Define an Area of Refuge ECS and its differences with other ECS
• Describe an acoustically distinguishable space
• Discuss the role of risk analysis in the ECS design process
• Distinguish the characteristics of a mass notification system (MNS), a type of ECS