Emergency Response Basics

What you’ll learn

• React calmly and decisively in the first minutes of an emergency
• Follow your emergency action plan, evacuation, and shelter procedures
• Know when to call 911 and what to say
• Recognize when CPR, an AED, choking care, or bleeding control is needed
• Help build a go-kit and a working communication-and-roles plan

Course outline

1. 1

   The first 60 seconds: stay calm, take charge

   5 min

2. 2

   Your Emergency Action Plan (EAP)

   6 min

3. 3

   Fire & evacuation: RACE and PASS

   6 min

4. 4

   Medical emergencies: 911, CPR, AED & choking

   8 min

5. 5

   Stop the Bleed: control severe bleeding

   5 min

6. 6

   Severe weather & sheltering

   5 min

7. 7

   Communication, roles & your go-kit

   5 min

Sources & further reading

• Ready.gov (FEMA) — Make a Plan & Build a Kit
• U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) — Emergency Action Plans — 29 CFR 1910.38
• American Red Cross — Adult & Child Choking: Symptoms and First Aid
• American Heart Association — What Is CPR — Hands-Only CPR
• American College of Surgeons — Stop the Bleed — Bleeding Control: Pressure, Packing, Tourniquet
• National Weather Service / Ready.gov — Tornado & Severe Weather Safety