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WorksheetsDisaster Preparedness
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 40mins
What does CERT stand for?
Certified Emergency Response Team
Community Early Response Team
Certified Emergency Responder Trainor
Community Emergency Response Teams
When do CERTs respond?
immediately before a disaster
immediately after a disaster when response resources are overwhelmed
after first responders have made sure it is safe
during a disaster to save more people
While CERTs are a valuable asset in emergency response, CERTs are not trained to perform all of the functions or respond to the same degree as professional responders
True
False
Effective community preparedness addresses the unique attributes of the community EXCEPT:
The threat and hazards profile and vulnerabilities of the area
The existing infrastructure
Resources and skills within the community
Whether or not they county has the budget need to respond to a disaster
Who has the responsibility to develop, test, and refine emergency operations plans, ensure emergency responders have adequate skills and resources, and
The community
The local hospital
The government
The local school system
To meet these challenges, government should involve who in the planning process; to incorporate community resources in the plans; to provide reliable, actionable information; and to encourage training, practicing, and volunteer programs?
The community
The school board
The local power company
The utilities company
The government emergency service providers include all the following except:
Emergency Management
Law Enforcement
Fire and Rescue
School System
All government agencies with a role in disaster response work to organize and coordinate their agencies’ activities before an emergency or disaster. The product of their work is the :
Incident Action Plan
Response Plan
Emergency Operations Plan
FEMA document
The EOP documents all the following EXCEPT:
Assigns responsibility to organizations and individuals for carrying out specific actions at projected times and places
Sets forth lines of authority and organizational relationships and shows how all actions will be coordinated
Describes how people and property will be protected
Describes how the Federal Government will decide who needs recovery money the most
Check all that apply: All members of the community should:
Learn about community alerts and warnings, evacuation routes, and how to get critical information
Take training in preparedness, first aid, and response skills
Report suspicious activity
Practice skills and personal plans through periodic drills in multiple settings
What is the grassroots movement to strengthen community safety and preparedness through increased engagement of all sectors of the community.
Citizen Corps
NIMS
Fire Department
Disaster Medical Teams
Natural Disaster include all the following Except:
Earthquake
Wildfire
Nuclear Power Plant Explosion
Hurricane
What are two technological disasters? Select two
Hazardous Spill
Terrorism
Bombing
Nuclear Power Plant Accident
What would be an Intentional Disaster?
Hazardous Material Incident
Hurricane
Terrorist Attack
Flu Outbreak
What would be an example of a Pandemic?
Tsunami
Category 4 Hurricane
Ebola Outbreak
Terrorist Attack
Disasters have several key elements in common, Select ALL that apply
They are relatively unexpected, with little or no warning or opportunity to prepare.
Available personnel and emergency services may be overwhelmed initially by demands for their services
Lives, health, and the environment are endangered.
They typically only cause monetary damage that can be fixed
Why does CERT exist?
Available personnel and emergency services may be overwhelmed initially by demands for their services.
Its gives people opportunities to volunteer
It looks good for a community
It gives people in small communities jobs
Damage to ________________may severely restrict the abilities of police, fire, and emergency medical services in that disaster.
Infrastructure
Banks
Mental Health
Because emergency services personnel are likely to have inadequate resources to meet the public’s needs, those resources must be applied according to the highest priority need. Who will address incidences of grave public safety?
Police
Fire fighters
EMS
Community
Because emergency services personnel are likely to have inadequate resources to meet the public’s needs, those resources must be applied according to the highest priority need. Who will suppress major fires?
Police
Fire Fighters
EMS
CERT
Because emergency services personnel are likely to have inadequate resources to meet the public’s needs, those resources must be applied according to the highest priority need. Who will handle life-threatening injuries?
Police
Fire Fighters
EMS
CERT
Hazards from Home Fixtures include: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Gas line ruptures from water heaters or ranges displaced by shaking, water, or wind
Damage from falling books, dishes, or other cabinet contents
Risk of injury or electric shock from displaced appliances and office equipment
Fire from faulty wiring, overloaded plugs, frayed electrical cords
What should be your first step after a disaster?
Assess the situation
Run for help
Go check on your Neighbor
Stay where you are at
If you are not in immediate danger after a disaster what should you do?
Run for help
Check on your elderly neighbors
Stay where you are at and get more information
Start assessing damage to your house
If experts tells you to evacuate from your location what should you do?
Stay and see if things get better
Stay where your at unless things get worse
Leave only after you have checked on your neighbors and pets
Leave immediately
____________ are congregate care facilities that house many people in one location.
Mass Care Shelter
Churches
Extended Care Facility
Schools
What all should be in your Disaster Plan? SELECT ALL that apply.
Where will you meet family members
Identify an out-of-state “check-in contact.”
How will you escape buildings where you spend time: your home, workplace, school, place of worship?
What route (and several alternatives) will you use to evacuate? Do you have transportation?
It is important to have an escape plan that: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Includes escape from every room of the house or every area of the workplace
Considers the needs of children and individuals with disabilities
Is practiced only once a year
Is the same as your neighbors plan
_______________ is the reduction of loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters
Mitigation
Planning
Recooperation
Litigation
All are NON-STRUCTURAL hazard mitigation examples EXCEPT:
Anchor heavy furniture
secure appliances and office equipment
Childproof cabinet doors
Bolt house to foundation
All are STRUCTURAL mitigation examples except:
Install trusses or hurricane straps to reinforce the roof
Raise utilities
Build a safe room
Install hurricane storm shutters.
CERTs are trained to perform all of the functions or respond to the same degree as professional responders
True
False
CERTs responder after a disaster by doing all the following EXCEPT:
Locating and turning off utilities, if safe to do so
Extinguishing small fires
Treating life-threatening injuries until professional assistance can be obtained
Conducted search and rescue from a collapsed building
What is CERT member's first responsibility?
Safety of the community
Personal and family safety
Safety of first responders
What section of the CERT organization is rarely used?
Operations
Administration
Planning
Logistics
What is PPE?
Personal Protective Equipment
Personal Property Equipment
Planning Period Extension
Properly Planned Exercise
CERT members are required to wear: Select ALL that apply
Helmet
Googles
N95 mask
Gloves
Sturdy Shoes
What would be an example of a NON-Disaster Role a CERT member would do?
Staffing parades, health fairs, county fair, and special events
Donating blood
Provide Security at a Presidental rally
Working as Mall Security
CERT members are generally protected by “_________________________” laws that protect people who provide care in a prudent and reasonable manner.
HEPPA
FEMA
Good Samartian
Mitigation
The _____________________ is a federal law that protects volunteers from liability as long as they are acting in accordance with the training that they have received.
Volunteer Protection Act of 1997
Voting Rights Act
2nd Amendment
Stand your Ground Law
