01/03/2020
CERT Basic Training Start January 7,2020
Are you interested in helping out your community during a disaster? The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) will be conducting the yearly basic training for new members starting Tuesday, January 7. This training covers general information to prepare team members to respond to disasters in our area should any occur. The training will be held at the fire station located at 1001 E 17th Street in Trenton starting at 6:30 PM each Tuesday through February. Residents of Grundy County interested in being a part of the team are encouraged to attend. For additional information contact CERT Team Leader, Alan Barnett 660 359 7931, Emergency Management Coordinator, Glen Briggs 660 635 0706.
COURSE OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
The purpose of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic Training is
to provide the individuals 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, CERT
members can assist in saving lives and protecting property using the basic techniques
in this course. The target audience for this course is individuals who desire the skills
and knowledge required to prepare for and respond to a disaster.
Overall Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, the participants should be able to:
1. Describe the types of hazards that are most likely to affect their homes, workplaces,
and neighborhoods.
2. Take steps to prepare themselves and their families for a disaster.
3. Describe the functions of CERTs and their role in immediate response.
4. Identify and reduce potential fire hazards in their homes, workplaces, and
neighborhoods.
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 excessive 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 injuries 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 survivor 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.
In addition to the overall course objectives listed above, each unit has specific
objectives.
Unit Topics
1 Disaster Preparedness
• Introductions and Overview
• Community Preparedness: Roles and Responsibilities
• Hazards and Their Potential Impact
• Impact on the Infrastructure
• Home and Workplace Preparedness
• Reducing the Impact of Hazards Through Mitigation
• CERT Disaster Response
• Protection for Disaster Workers
• Additional Training for CERTs
• Unit Summary
2 Fire Safety and Utility Controls
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• Fire Chemistry
• Fire and Utility Hazards
• CERT Sizeup
• Fire Sizeup Considerations
• Firefighting Resources
• Fire Suppression Safety
• Hazardous Materials
• Exercise: Suppressing Small Fires
• Unit Summary
3 Disaster Medical Operations — Part 1
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• Treating Life-Threatening Conditions
• Triage
• Unit Summary
4 Disaster Medical Operations — Part 2
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• Public Health Considerations
• Functions of Disaster Medical Operations
• Establishing Medical Treatment Areas
• Conducting Head-to-Toe Assessments
• Treating Burns
• Wound Care
• Treating Fractures, Dislocations, Sprains, and Strains
• Nasal Injuries
• Treating Cold-Related Injuries
• Treating Heat-Related Injuries
• Bites and Stings
• Unit Summary
5 Light Search and Rescue Operations
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• Safety During Search and Rescue Operations
• Conducting Interior and Exterior Search Operations
• Conducting Rescue Operations
• Unit Summary
6 CERT Organization
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• CERT Organization
• CERT Mobilization
• Documentation
• Activity: ICS Functions
• Activity: Tabletop Exercise
• Unit Summary
7 Disaster Psychology
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• Disaster Trauma
• Team Well-Being
• Working with Survivors’ Trauma
• Unit Summary
8 Terrorism and CERT
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• What Is Terrorism?
• Terrorist Targets
• Terrorist Weapons
• CBRNE Indicators
• Preparing at Home, Work, and in Your Neighborhood
• CERTs and Terrorist Incidents
• Activity: Applying CERT Principles to a Suspected Terrorist Incident
• Unit Summary
9 Course Review, Final Exam, and Disaster Simulation
• Introduction and Unit Overview
• Course Review
• Final Exam
• Disaster Simulation
• Exercise Critique and Summary
