HD Forensics and the Chester County, PA Coroner’s Office will be presenting a 2-day short course focused on describing effective large-scale scene recovery and victim identification protocols related to mass casualty incidents.​

 

The first day of the short course (Thursday, April 24) will detail effective approaches to the recovery of large-scale mass causality scenes (aircraft and large vehicle crashes) through the nationally-recognized Weldon Spring and Clarence Center Protocols. Discussions will focus on the creation of recovery protocols (NIJ) and past implementations: United Airlines Flight 93 (Somerset, 2001), ColganAir 3407 (Buffalo, NY, 2009), and ExecuJet crash (Akron, 2015). The afternoon will describe and detail disaster morgue protocols and subsequent victim identification methods and procedures, where SWG-Victim ID, OSAC and other best practices standards and guidelines will be analyzed.

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The second day (Friday, April 25) will include practical exercises involving a hands-on exercise detailing the Weldon Spring Scene Recovery Protocols sequence of search, provenience and collection of the wide variety of evidence found on the disaster scene. Participants will be trained and will have opportunities to use the mapping instruments (electronic total station, survey-grade GPS, and 3D scene scanners) during the processing of a detailed mock disaster scene. Also presented on this day will be a hands-on session that will detail the disaster morgue set up and operations and will include station-to-station movement of mock biological evidence through the mock disaster morgue, associated with detailed discussions of the roles of each station. Practical exercises related to dental identification will be highlighted.​

 

On-line options available for Thursday, April 24 lectures, and narrated video ‘tours’ available for mock disaster morgue exercise and mock scene recovery

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Limited to 30 in-person participants