CERT Training is designed to cover the following:
Unit 1 Disaster Preparedness Introduction to Disasters
Unit 2 Disaster Fire Suppression
Fire chemistry & suppression
Unit 3 Disaster Medical Operations, Part 1
Treating life-threatening conditions and principles of triage.
Unit 4 Disaster Medical Operations, Part 2
Head-to-toe assessments, treatment for various injuries
Unit 5 Light Search & Rescue Operations
Size-up for search and rescue, search operations, rescue operations
Unit 6 CERT Organization
CERT equipment, organizing and deploying your team, communications
Unit 7 Disaster Psychology
Team well-being, working with survivors
Unit 8 Terrorism & CERT
CERTs & terrorist incidents
Unit 9 Final Exercise
Review & disaster simulation