Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training

The Office of Emergency Preparedness is now offering Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training. This training course provides staff with the basic life-saving, rescuer safety and response organizational skills necessary to protect themselves, their workplace, and their local communities when disasters occur. Training components include:

• Workplace Preparedness
• UCLA Health Emergency Operations
• Disaster Psychology
• First Aid
• Damage Assessment
• Fire Safety
• Fire Suppression
• Hazardous Materials
• Utility Control
• Light Search & Rescue
• Disaster Simulation Exercises

For more information on our Health System's H-CERT training course, please email: oep@mednet.ucla.edu

For more information on the national CERT program, please visist: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/.