Emergency Preparedness and Response Teams Module Overview

In the last unit, we examined the importance of ethics and professionalism in Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security fields. In this unit, we are going to explore the purpose of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response Teams. In an emergency, what resources are available to avoid a crisis situation? Responders need to have critical skills in order to function effectively. Let's dive in and take a look at some of the roles and responsibilities required to operate successful emergency management teams.

Essential Questions

How have we prepared for disaster in the past?
What is Citizen Corps?
What are the responsibilities of disaster responders?
What is a PPE?
What is a HazMat?
What is an Incident Command System?

Key Words

Protocols - a system of rules that explain the correct conduct and procedures to be followed in formal situations
Apparatus - technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose
Encapsulating - enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule
Inhalation - the action of breathing in
Ingestion - to take into the body by the mouth for digestion
Absorption - the passage of a gas, fluid, drug, etc, through the mucous membranes or skin
Acute - condition with a rapid onset and/or a short course
Chronic - condition with persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects
Decontaminate - neutralize or remove dangerous substances, radioactivity, or germs from (an area, object, or person)
Reactivity - the rate at which a chemical substance tends to undergo a chemical reaction
Combustion - a chemical reaction that occurs when oxygen combines with other substances to produce heat and usually light
Oxidizer - is a substance that is not necessarily combustible, but may, generally by yielding oxygen, cause or contribute to the combustion of other material
Corrosive - something that causes a process in which a solid, especially a metal, is eaten away and changed by a chemical action
Noxious - harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant
Intuition - a natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence
Triage - the process of deciding which patients should be treated first based on how sick or seriously injured they are

Key Words Review

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