Unit 1 – Disaster Preparation 2hr30min

Unit 2 – Small Fire Suppression 2hr30min

Unit 3 – Medical Operations Part 1 – 2hr30min

§ Life-threatening Conditions: How to recognize and treat an airway obstruction, bleeding, and shock.

Triage: Principles of triage and how to conduct triage evaluations

Unit 4 – Medical Operations Part 2 – 2hr30min

§ Public Health Considerations: How to maintain hygiene and sanitation.

§ Functions of Emergency Medical Operations: How to conduct the four major subfunctions of emergency medical operations.

§ Disaster Medical Treatment Areas: How to establish them and what their functions are.

§ Patient Evaluation: How to perform a head-to-toe patient evaluation to identify and treat injuries.

§ Basic Treatment—How To:

· Treat burns.

· Dress and bandage wounds.

· Treat fractures, dislocations, sprains, and strains.

· Apply splints to hands, arms, and legs.

· Treat hypothermia.

· Control nasal bleeding.

Unit 5 – Light Search and Rescue 2hr30min

§ Search and Rescue Sizeup: How to size up the situation in which the search and rescue teams will operate.

§ Conducting Search Operations: How to search systematically for disaster victims.

§ Conducting Rescue Operations: Safe techniques for lifting, leveraging, cribbing, and victim removal.

Unit 6 - Cert Organization 1hr45min

§ CERT Organization: How to organize and deploy volunteer resources according to CERT organizational principles.

§ Rescuer Safety: How to protect your own safety and your buddy’s during search and rescue.

§ Documentation: Strategies for documenting situation and resource status.

§ Team Organization: A tabletop exercise will give you the opportunity to apply your knowledge of team organization.

Unit 7 – Disaster Psychology 45min

§ Disaster Psychology: The psychological impact of a disaster on rescuers and victims, and how to provide “psychological first aid.”

§ Caring for Yourself, Your Buddy, and Victims: Steps one can take individually and as part of a CERT before, immediately following, and after a disaster.

Unit 8 – Terrorism 3hr

§ What Terrorism Is: The definition of terrorism and terrorist goals.

§ Terrorist Weapons: The weapons that terrorists are known or are suspected to have and the risk posed by various terrorist weapons.

§ B-NICE Indicators: Cues that help to identify a when a terrorist attack has occurred or may be imminent.

§ CERTs and Terrorist Incidents: CERT protocols for terrorist incidents and protective action following an event.

Unit 9 – Disaster Simulation and Final Exam 3hr-0min

§ A Review of Key Points from the Course.

A Final Exercise