• Understanding the function of ACERT and their roles in the community and the workplace.
• Recognizing the types of hazards most likely to affect their homes, communites, and workplaces.
• Taking steps in preparation for natural or manmade disasters.
• Identifying and reducing potential fire hazards in their homes and workplaces.
• Working as a team to apply basic fire suppression strategies and employing safety measures for extinguishment.
• Triaging and basic injury assessment.
• Identifying and selecting the best triage area.
• The best method of selecting and preparing a treatment area.
• Identify planning and size-up requirements for potential search and rescue situations.
• Performing effective sizeup along with light search and rescue operations.

ACERT Training Modules

• Disaster Preparedness
• Terrorism
• CERT Organization
• Fire Safety
• Light Search and Rescue
• Disaster Medical Part 1
• Disaster Medical Part 2
• Disaster Psychology
• Comprehensive Review
• CPR (optional)
• Final Exercise

Each Session requires 2 1/2 hours to complete.