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CERT - Community Emergency Response Team Training
The President has asked all Americans to volunteer in the service of their country. The Citizen Corps program was created to spearheaded this effort to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service to make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to the threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds. CERT was selected as one of the primary programs offered to the American public to meet this challenge.
CERT Training is designed to prepare you to help yourself, your family, and your neighbors in the event of a catastrophic disaster. Because emergency services personnel will not be able to help everyone immediately, you can make a difference by using the training in this manual to save lives and protect property.
This training covers basic skills that are important to know in a disaster when emergency services are not available. With training and practice and by working as a team, you will be able to do the greatest good for the greatest number after a disaster, while protecting yourself from becoming a victim. Community-based preparedness planning allows us to prepare for and respond to anticipated disruptions and potential hazards following a disaster. As individuals, we can prepare our homes and families to cope during that critical period. Through pre-event planning, neighborhoods and worksites can also work together to help reduce injuries, loss of lives, and property damage. Neighborhood preparedness will enhance the ability of individuals and neighborhoods to reduce their emergency needs and to manage their existing resources until professional assistance becomes available.
The CERT program can provide an effective first-response capability. Acting as individuals first, then later as members of teams, trained CERT volunteers can fan out within their assigned areas, extinguishing small fires, turning off natural gas inlets to damaged homes, performing light search and rescue, and rendering basic medical treatment. Trained volunteers also offer an important potential workforce to service organizations in nonhazardous functions such as shelter support, crowd control, and evacuation.
Course Overview And Objectives
The purpose of this Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training is to provide the private citizens who complete this course with the basic skills that they will need to respond to their community s immediate needs in the aftermath of a disaster, when emergency services are not immediately available. By working together, CERTs can assist in saving lives and protecting property using the basic techniques in this course.
Upon completing this course, the participants should be able to:
1. Describe the types of hazards that are most likely to affect their homes and communities.
2. Describe the functions of CERTs and their role in immediate response.
3. Take steps to prepare themselves for a disaster.
4. Identify and reduce potential fire hazards in their homes or workplaces.
5. Work as a team to apply basic fire suppression strategies, resources, and safety measures to extinguish a pan fire.
6. Apply techniques for opening airways, controlling bleeding, and treating for shock.
7. Conduct triage under simulated disaster conditions.
8. Perform head-to-toe patient assessments.
9. Select and set up a treatment area.
10. Employ basic treatments for various wounds, and apply splints to suspected fractures and sprains.
11. Identify planning and sizeup requirements for potential search and rescue situations.
12. Describe the most common techniques for searching a structure.
13. Work as a team to apply safe techniques for debris removal and victim extrication.
14. Describe ways to protect rescuers during search and rescue operations.
15. Describe the post-disaster emotional environment and the steps that rescuers can take to relieve their own stressors and those of disaster survivors.
16. Describe CERT organization and documentation requirements.
The target audience for this course will be private citizens who desire the skills and knowledge required to prepare for and respond to a disaster.
The agenda for this course is shown below.
Disaster Preparedness
Recent Disasters and Emergencies
Course Preview
Disasters and Disaster Workers
Impact on the Infrastructure
Structural and Nonstructural Hazards
Hazard Mitigation
Home and Workplace Preparedness
Community Preparedness
Protection for Disaster Workers
Fire Chemistry
Reducing Fire Hazards in the Home and Workplace
Hazardous Materials
Firefighting Resources
Fire Suppression Safety
Disaster Medical Operations Part 1
Treating Life-Threatening Conditions
Disaster Medical Operations Part 2
Public Health Considerations
Functions of Disaster Medical Operations
Establishing Treatment Areas
Conducting Head-to-Toe Assessments
Treating Burns
Treating Fractures, Dislocations, Sprains, and Strains
Nasal Injuries
Treating Hypothermia
Light Search and Rescue Operations
Search and Rescue Sizeup
Conducting Search Operations
Conducting Rescue Operations
CERT Organization
CERT Organization
CERT Decisionmaking
Disaster Psychology
Team Well-Being
Working with Survivors Trauma
Terrorism and CERT
What is Terrorism?
Terrorist Targets
Terrorist Weapons
B-NICE Indicators
Preparing at Home and Work
CERTs and Terrorist Incidents
Course Review and Disaster Simulation
Disaster Simulation
Support materials required to facilitate conducting this course include:
The Community Emergency Response Team Instructor Guide.
The Community Emergency Response Team Participant Manual.
With the exception of selected visuals, descriptions, and activities that need to be specific to a given community s potential disaster events, the Instructor Guide provides all of the materials needed to conduct this course, including:
Notes to help the Instructor facilitate training each session, including suggested timeframes and required materials.
Content outlines for lectures and group activities.
Course exercises, including directions and a description of possible discussion items resulting from the exercises.
Paper copies of all visuals.
C.E.R.T (Student) Participant Manual
The Participant Manual (PM) is an easy-to-use reference to the primary information that will be presented in this course. The PM contains text with supplementary graphics that illustrate key points in the text. It also includes charts and tables that present very important information in summary form that the participants can refer to easily after completing the course. At the end of each unit, there is a summary of key points, an assignment for the participants to complete before the next session, additional references about the topic, and in some chapters, additional materials that supplement the information in the chapter.
Emphasize to the participants that the PM is theirs to keep after the training, and encourage the participants to take notes in their PMs.
INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT GUIDES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING UNITS
Introduction and Unit Overview
Recent Disasters and Emergencies
Disasters and Disaster Workers
Structural and Nonstructural Hazards
Home and Workplace Preparedness
Protection for Disaster Workers
Appendix 1-A: Hazard Lesson Plans
Introduction and Unit OverviewFire Chemistry
Reducing Fire Hazards in the Home and Workplace
Exercise: Suppressing Small Fires
Unit 3: Disaster Medical Operations Part 1
Treating Life-Threatening Conditions
Unit 4: Disaster Medical Operations Part 2
Functions of Disaster Medical Operations
Conducting Head-to-Toe Assessments
Treating Fractures, Sprains, and Strains
Unit 5: Light Search and Rescue Operations
Working with Survivors Trauma
Activity: Applying CERT principles to a Suspected Terrorist Incident
Unit 9: Course Review and Disaster Simulation
As a supplement to the above CERT Training Program, I am including some BONUS training files that include:
How to Start and Maintain a CERT Program in your Community (142 pages)
CERT Incident Command System Training (17 Pages)
Are You Ready? In Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness (204 Pages)
Handy CERT Standard Operating Procedures Pocket Guide
10 Steps for Terrorism Preparedness
Family Steps for Survival (25 pages)
START Triage Training (17 pages)
Managing Volunteers in Times of Disorder Guide (20 Pages)
Lifts & Carries Guidelines
Cribbing & Backboard Instruction
You will receive this entire training course and BONUS files on one DVD+R. Files were created in either Microsoft Powerpoint and Adobe Acrobat. Reader files are included for easy access. All info can also be printed out for reference and study aids.
Please email me with any questions.
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