Kaufman County CERT, Inc. believes in training CERT teams as they were designed to be trained. During the Standard Class, students will complete 8 2½ hours training classes for a total of 20 hours. Once a student has complete all 8 classes, they will become a full member of Kaufman County CERT, Inc. and receive all rights granted to our members.
All training classes are conducting using the official training material, which may have some tweaking done to insure that they are relevant to Kaufnan County and the surrounding areas.
The complete training course includes the following class sessions:
Class 1 - Introduction to Kaufman County CERT and CERT in general
Introduction
Personal and Family Preparation
Nonstructural Hazard Mitigation
Class 2 - Fire Safety
Fire Chemistry
Fire Extinguisher Use
Utility Control
Creative Firefighting Techniques
Hazardous Materials/Placarding
Class 3 - Disaster Medical Operations (Session 1)
Moving a "vitcim"
Recognizing Life-Threatening Emergencies
Treating Life-Threatening Emergencies
Triage
Class 4 - Disaster Medical Operations (Session 2) and Mulit-Casualty Incident
Head-to-Toe Evaluation
Treating Non-Lif-Threating Emergencies
Treatment Area Management
Class 5 - Light Search & Rescue
Evacuation
Search Techniques
Rescue Methods/Cribbing
Class 6 - CERT Team Organization and Disaster Psychology
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Standard Class 
hours. Once a student has complete all 8 classes, they will become a full member of Kaufman County CERT, Inc. and receive all rights granted to our members.
