There are a wide range of clubs and societies that do great work in
terms of preparing for and responding to hazard events or
emergencies. These include The Boys Scouts and Girls Guides and
their associations, St Johns Ambulance in the UK, etc. I will
attempt to source educational materials that are of a high quality
and engaging, but your own knowledge and contacts will far outweigh
mine!
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For example:

Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge Requirements
1) Earn the First Aid merit badge
2) Do the following:
A) Discuss with your counselor these three aspects of emergency
preparedness:
1) Recognition of a potential emergency situation
2) Prevention of an emergency situation
3) Reaction to an emergency situation Include in your discussion
the kinds of questions that are important to ask yourself as you
consider each of these.
B) Make a chart that demonstrates you understanding of each of the
three aspects of emergency preparedness in requirement 2a
(recognition, prevention, and reaction) with regard to 10 of the
situations listed below. You must use situations 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5*
but may choose any other five for a total of 10 situations. Discuss
this chart with your counselor.
1) Home kitchen fire*
2) Home basement/storage room/garage fire*
3)Explosion in the home*
4) Automobile accident* 5)
Food-borne disease (food poisoning)*
6) Fire or explosion in a public place
7) Vehicle stalled in the desert
8) Vehicle trapped in a blizzard
9) Flash flooding in town or the country
10) Mountain/backcountry accident
11) Boating accident
12) Gas leak in a building
13) Tornado or hurricane
14) Major flood
15) Nuclear power plant emergency
16) Avalanche (snowslide or rockslide)
17) Violence in a public place
C) Meet with and teach your family how to recognize, prevent, and
react to the situations on the chart you created for requirement
2b. Then meet with your counselor and report on your family
meeting, discussing their responses.
3) Show how you could safely save a person from the following: A)
Touching a live electric wire
B) A room with carbon monoxide
C) Clothes on fire
D) Drowning using non-swimming rescues (including accidents on
ice)
4) Show three ways of attracting and communicating with rescue
planes/aircraft.
5) With another person, show a good way to move an injured person
out of a remote and/or rugged area, conserving the energy of the
rescuers while ensuring the well-being and protection of the
injured person.
6) Do the following:
A) Tell the things a group of Scouts should be prepared to do, the
training needed, and the safety precautions they should take for
the following emergency services:
1) Crowd or traffic control
2) Messenger service and communication
3) Collection and distribution services
4) Group feeding, shelter, and sanitation
B) Identify the government or community agencies that normally
handle and prepare for the emergency services listed under 6a, and
explain to your counselor how a group of Scouts could volunteer to
help in the event of these types of emergencies.
C) Find out who is your community’s disaster/emergency response
coordinator and learn what this person does to recognize, prevent
and respond to emergency situations in your community. Discuss this
information with your counselor and apply what you discover to the
chart you created for requirement 2b.
7) Take part in an emergency service project, either a real one or
a practice drill, with a Scouting unit or a community agency.
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8) Do the following: A) Prepare a written plan for mobilizing your
troop when needed to do emergency service. If there is already a
plan, explain it. Tell your part in making it work B) Take part in
at least one troop mobilization. Before the exercise, describe your
part to your counselor. Afterward, conduct and “after-action”
lesson, discussing what you learned during the exercise that
required changes or adjustments to the plan. C) Prepare a personal
emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Prepare a family
kit (suitcase or waterproof box) for use by your family in case an
emergency evacuation is needed. Explain the needs and uses of the
contents.
9) Do ONE of the following:
A) Using a safety checklist approved by your counselor, inspect
your home for potential hazards. Explain the hazards you find and
how they can be corrected.
B) Review or develop a plan of escape for your family in case of
fire in your home.
C) Develop and accident prevention program for five family
activities outside the home (such as taking a picnic or seeing a
movie) that includes and analysis of the possible hazards, a
proposed plan to correct those hazards, and the reasons for the
corrections you propose.
Source: Boy Scout Requirements, 33215, revised 2004
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Emergency-Preparedness.pdf
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