CERT Forms

Who uses what form when ?

We should also have clipboards preloaded for various CERT roles, each with an example filled out form for reference. 

Please select scribes for their ability to write legibly, preferably printed not cursive. 

Unreadable or ambiguous writing is useless. It requires following up - which can be very hard when time or people have moved on and in the worst case can cause teams to be dispatched to wrong locations, endangering people and property while time is lost correcting errors. That is why we pedantically drill people to write legibly on the sign-in form. It starts there.

Acronym salad: DAT = a mobile Damage Assessment Team, IRT = a mobile Incident Response Team, TL = team lead

• IC/Operations/Planning/Staging Manager 

  • #2 Personnel Resources aka sign in (managed by greeter/scribe)

  • #4 Assignment Briefing (given to Team Leaders)

  • #3 Assignment Log recording which tasks have been assigned to teams

  • collect #1/9 Damage Assessment returned from DATs

  • collect #10 Activity Log returned from IRTs

• Damage Assessment Teams (DAT)

  • TL receives #4 Assignment Briefing from Operations

  • Team scribe records into #1/#9 Damage Assessment forms

• Incident Response Teams (IRT)

  • TL receives #4 Assignment Briefing from Staging Manager

  • Team scribe records into #10 Activity Log forms

• Logistics manager

  • records equipment check out and back in on #7 Equipment Inventory form
    
    

• Radio operator (in ICP)

  • keeps a log of all messages on #6 Communications Log

  • sends and receives messages via #8 General Message

• Medical Group

  • scribe logs #5 Victim Treatment Records

• Ops/IC/Planning in ICP

  • keep track of incidents (numbering them uniquely and recording status updates from radio messages) on a big board

Where are printed versions of those forms ?

I am glad you asked 😉   We keep a full set of these forms in our trailers inside organizer pockets in the red bin next to the trailer door up front.

If we need extra forms, we have a printers in the ICP and Staging area.