CERT Level 3 Galt Fall 2025

CERT Basic Unit 1: Disaster Preparedness

In this unit, you will learn about:

* Roles and Responsibilities for Community Preparedness: How everyone in a community has a role in disaster preparedness.

* Elements of Disasters and Their Impact on Infrastructure: The potential effects of extreme emergencies and disasters on electrical service; emergency services; telephone communication; transportation; and availability of food, water, shelter, and fuel.

* Personal and Organizational Preparedness: How you can prepare in advance to improve the quality of your survival and to reduce the damage from hazards

CERT Unit 2: CERT Organization

In this unit, you will learn about:

* CERT Organization: How to organize and deploy

* CERT resources according to CERT organizational principles.

* CERT Size-up: How to conduct the continual data-gathering and evaluation process at the scene of a disaster or emergency. Rescuer Safety: How to protect your own safety and your buddy's during search and rescue.

CERT Units 3 and 4: Disaster Medical Operations - Part 1 and Part 2

In this unit, you will learn about:

* Assisting Disaster Medical Operations: How to assist by controlling bleeding, maintaining normal body temperature, and more.

* Disaster Medical Treatment Areas: Types of medical treatment areas. Head-to-Toe Assessment: How to perform a head-to-toe assessment to identify and treat injuries.

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

CERT Unit 5: Disaster Psychology

In this unit, you will learn about:

* Disaster Psychology: The psychological impact a disaster has on rescuers and survivors, and lessons on providing components of "psychological first aid."

* Caring for Yourself and Survivors: Steps volunteers can take individually and as part of a CERT before, following, and after a disaster.

CERT Unit 6: Fire Safety and Utility Controls

In this unit, you will learn about:

* Fire Chemistry: How fire occurs, classes of fire, and choosing the correct means to extinguish each type of fire.

* Portable Fire Extinguishers: How to identify types of portable fire extinguishers and how to operate them.

* Fire Suppression Safety: How to decide if you should attempt to extinguish a fire; how to approach and extinguish a fire safely.

CERT Unit 7: Light Search and Rescue Operations

In this unit, you will learn about:

* Search and Rescue Size-up: How to size up the situation in which the search and rescue teams will operate.

* Conducting Interior and Exterior Search Operations: How to search systematically for disaster survivors.

* Conducting Rescue Operations: Safe techniques for lifting, leveraging, cribbing, and survivor removal.

CERT Unit 8: Terrorism and CERT

In this unit, you will learn about:

* Terrorism: Defining terrorism, including the goals and tactics of some terrorist groups, and detailing how to respond when an active shooter is in your vicinity.

* Preparing for Your Neighborhood: Steps to take to be prepared at home, work, and in your neighborhood.

* Identifying some basic guidelines during a Hazmat or CBRNE event.

CERT Unit 9: Course Review, Final Exam and Disaster Simulation

This unit includes:

* A final exercise