Administration
Planning
Operations
Logistics
Safety
100
This is the program that is currently used to manage HCCERT Volunteers and their status.
What is the Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry (TDVR)?
100
This documentation is required if the incident involves hazardous materials, or if the Incident Commander requests it.
What is an Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
100
When organizing a team, this is the maximum number of individuals that a single leader should supervise to maintain a proper span of control.
What is 2 to 7?
100
To ensure safety, where should the logistics staging area be located?
What is outside the immediate hazard zone?
100
When a disaster occurs, a CERT member's first responsibility is to ensure this.
What is personal and family safety?
200
This is the primary role of the Administration Section during a disaster.
What are documenting all incident activities and managing volunteer timekeeping?
200
This is the primary role of the Planning Section during a disaster.
What is managing all incident-related data by collecting, evaluating, and disseminating information, and developing the Action Plan (IAP)?
200
This is the primary role of the Operations Section during a disaster.
What is to implement decisions and perform actions?
200
This is the primary role of the Logistics Section during a disaster.
What are providing all support needs for the incident, such as ordering resources, providing facilities, transporting, maintaining equipment, and feeding personnel?
200
This is the primary role of the Safety Officer during a disaster.
What are assessing hazards, implementing protocols, monitoring well-being, and general site safety?
300
This is the form used to track volunteer hours during an event.
What is a CERT ICS 211?
300
The Planning Section Chief facilitates this meeting, held at the beginning of the operational period.
What is the Tactics Meeting?
300
This is the number of individuals required to form a search and rescue team.
What is 4?
300
CERT teams should be self-sufficient for how long immediately following a disaster?
What is 72 hours?
300
This is what you must write on a building or door before entering.
What is the CERT structural marking (or safety status)?
400
These are the three main divisions that fall under the Administration section.
What are 1. New Member Enrollment, 2. Volunteer Management, and 3. Reporting & Documenting?
400
These are the two main divisions that fall under the Planning section.
What are 1. Documentation and 2. Incident Status?
400
These are the three main divisions that fall under the Operations section.
What are: 1. Fire Suppression, 2. Search and Rescue, and 3. Medical?
400
These are the two main divisions that fall under the Logisitics section.
What are 1. Service and 2. Support?
400
This NFPA diamond indicates high hazard levels, requiring a CERT member to stay away.
What is the 704 Diamond?
500
Under the Incident Command System (ICS), the Administration/Finance section chief is responsible for __.
What are overseeing staff responsible for recording personnel time, negotiating leases, maintaining vendor contracts, administering claims and tracking and analyzing incident costs?
500
Under the Incident Command System (ICS), the Planning section chief is responsible for __.
What are incident-related data gathering and analysis regarding incident operations and assigned resources, facilitating incident action planning meetings and preparing the Incident Action Plan (IAP) for each operational period?
500
Under the Incident Command System (ICS), the Operations section chief is responsible for __.
What are managing tactical incident activities to achieve incident objectives and overseeing Incident Action Plan (IAP) implementation?
500
Under the Incident Command System (ICS), the Logisitics section chief is responsible for __.
What are overseeing the provision of all the incident’s support needs—such as ordering resources and providing facilities, transportation, supplies, equipment maintenance, equipment fuel, communications and food and medical services—for incident personnel?
500
Under the Incident Command System (ICS), the Safety Officer is responsible for __.
What are monitoring incident operations and adviseing the Incident Commander (IC) or Unified Command on all matters relating to operational safety, including the health and safety of incident personnel?