The Safety Assessment Program
The AIA Safety Assessment Program (SAP) Training teaches architects, engineers, building officials, and inspectors how to assess homes, buildings, and infrastructure for safety after a disaster.
Safety assessment after a disaster
When a disaster strikes, one of the first tasks for a community is to determine whether the buildings are safe for habitation. The trouble is the structures that must be examined often greatly outnumber the quantity of trained city inspectors.
The AIA Safety Assessment Program (SAP) Training has an answer: It provides architects, engineers, building officials, and inspectors with the knowledge and protocol to evaluate homes, buildings, and infrastructure in the aftermath of a disaster. This professional expertise is provided as a volunteer service and is based on the State of California’s training program. It has benefited numerous communities, resulting in thousands of safety evaluations and saving municipalities millions of dollars.
The Safety Assessment Program Training is a technical training program that includes Applied Technology Council ATC-20 Post-earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings and ATC-45 Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Wind Storms and Floods. The SAP reference sheet provides information on how to organize and host an AIA SAP training.
Are you a licensed SAP evaluator? Keep your certification up to date with this refresher course.
Sign up for an SAP training in order to support your community in times of need.
To supplement SAP training, it is recommended that volunteers take Incident Command System (ICS) courses to understand mission control protocol.
Bring SAP training to your state or local chapter to make sure your community has the resources it needs to respond to a disaster!
Contributed by Cheryl Jacobs, AIA, Greg Louviere, AIA, & Benjamin Fields, AIA
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