About CERT Training
Emergency services personnel are the best trained and equipped to handle emergencies and you should use them. However, following a disaster, you and the community may be on your own for a period of time because of the size of the area affected, lost communications, and unpassable roads.
CERT Training is designed to prepare you to help yourself, your family, and your neighbors in the event of a disaster. Because emergency personnel will not be able to help everyone immediately, you can make a difference by using the training to save lives and protect property.
When a disaster happens, you will want to help. 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. Instead, you can be a valuable survivor!
What you will learn at CERT Training:
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to...
- Describe the types of hazards that are most likely to affect their homes and community
- Describe the functions of CERTs and their role in immediate response
- Take steps to prepare themselves for a disaster
- Identify and reduce potential fire hazards in their home or workplace
- While working as a team, apply basic fire suppression strategies, resources, and safety measures to extinquish a burning liquid
- Apply techniques for opening airways, contolling bleeding, and treating for shock
- Conduct triage under simulated disaster conditions
- Perform head-to-toe patient assessments
- Select and set up a treatment area
- Employ basic treatments for various wounds and apply splints to suspected fractures and sprains
- Identify planning and size-up requirements for potential search and rescue situtations
- Describe the most common techniques for searching a structure
- While working as a team, use safe techniques for debris removal and victim extrication
- Describe ways to protect rescuers during search and rescue
- Describe the post-disaster emotional environment and the steps that rescuers can take to relieve their own stressors and those of disaster survivors
- Describe CERT organization and documentation requirements
