Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is designed to cover the following:
- Unit 1 Disaster Preparedness Introduction to Disasters
- Unit 2 Disaster Fire Suppression
- Fire chemistry and 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 and 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 and CERT
- CERTs and terrorist incidents
- Unit 9 Final Exercise
- Review and disaster simulation