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AlaskaX: Crisis Ready: Personal Preparedness in the Modern World by Edx
Be prepared when disaster strikes. This free online course will teach you to recognize and successfully manage crisis events.
Course Highlights
- Identify general principles and activities associated with preparedness, and appreciate their importance.
- Identify the known hazards and emergency risks in your area.
- List the 5 action steps in thinking and planning for disasters.
- Name the two principle possibilities your emergency plan should account for.
- Describe the importance of stockpiling water; calculate daily water needs; and purifying water.
- Describe basic, essential emergency supplies for staying at home during an emergency or in the event of an evacuation.
- The best way to secure valuables, including important documents.
- How to create an emergency communication plan for your family and loved ones.
- How to decide whether to evacuate a location or shelter-in-place.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
2 Topics
Explain the importance of emergency planning and preparation.
Create a functioning emergency communications plan.
4 Topics
Explain the critical nature of water in a survival situation
Identify different ways to locate drinkable water
Describe how to filter and purify water for drinking
Review means for storing the appropriate amount of water for a survival situation
5 Topics
Evaluate the importance of food storage in disaster preparedness
Analyze the potential risks and challenges associated with obtaining food during a disaster
Calculate the daily caloric requirements of each family member to ensure adequate food supplies are stored for short and long-term use
Create a checklist of non-perishable food items with for a disaster stockpile
Identify the different methods of food preservation including canning root cellaring dehydration freezing and curing/smoking and explain the basic principles and considerations of each method
4 Topics
Identify which items and how many you need
Explain the different methods for cleaning and disinfecting laundry
Describe alternatives to showering/bathing and toilets
List the various strategies for waste disposal and pest control
3 Topics
Recognize why first aid is critical every day and particularly in disasters
List the components frequently associated with a disaster first aid kit
Explain the use of disaster first aid kit supplies
3 Topics
Conduct a home security audit to identify vulnerabilities and create a plan to fortify your home against potential threats
Understand the steps for the protection of self and others within a residential setting using layers of protection
Identify strategies for hiding valuables in case your home is ever breached
3 Topics
Understand the circumstances where force might be used for self defense
Describe what to do after you have defended your self
Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of various lethal and less-lethal weapons
2 Topics
Identify alternate sources of heating and cooling.
Explain the dangers associated with different heating and cooling sources.
2 Topics
List fuel options that are capable of being used indoors.
Explain the dangers associated with the operation of emergency cooking techniques.
2 Topics
Identify the various lighting options available to you
Explain the safety concerns associated with the variety of lighting options available
2 Topics
Create a communication plan that will work for you and those you care about
Discuss the dynamics of communication in an emergency
3 Topics
Identify characteristics of a given location that afford greater levels of comfort in a crisis
Understand the considerations associated with deciding to shelter-in-place or to consider "bugging out."
Identifying common practices associated with sheltering-in-place or evacuating a location
AlaskaX: Crisis Ready: Personal Preparedness in the Modern World
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