OrSAP Including ATC20 & ATC 45

Fall OrSAP/ATC 20/45 training opportunity: The state of Oregon has recently created the Oregon Safety Assessment Program (OrSAP) after the passing of House Bill 2206 in 2019.  The program creates a verified and maintained list of credentialed Building Safety Evaluators (BSEs) that can be called out in an emergency.  Building safety evaluations follow the ATC 20 Post-Earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings and ATC 45 Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Windstorms and Floods procedures.  Copies of these documents can be ordered off the FEMA website: Applied Technology Council Online Store (atcouncil.org) and can be included in registration for additional fee (only available to early registrants). The training and credentialling meets FEMA standards and provides a resource for jurisdictions in need following a disaster.  The system can be used to credential government employees that can be shared between jurisdictions in smaller emergencies and for qualified volunteers that can be called up and deployed when a state of emergency is declared.  Qualified volunteers would typically be licensed engineers and architects of varying levels of experience.  Government employees would commonly be certified inspectors and plans examiners employed by a jurisdiction.  This OrSAP training course provides a mixture of ATC 20 and ATC 45 training, a basic overview of FEMA’s National Incident Management process, as well as Oregon specific hazards and OrSAP functionality.  As OrSAP does not yet have a formal standard training course this course will follow the Cal OES SAP training with additional slides for OrSAP.