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Requirements January 2013 until January 2016

1. Earn the First Aid merit badge.

2. Do the following:

(a) Discuss with your counselor the aspects of emergency preparedness:

(1) Prepare for emergency situations.
(2) Respond to emergency situations
(3) Recover from emergency situations
(4) Mitigate and prevent emergency situations

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 your understanding of each of the aspects of emergency preparedness in requirement 2a (prepare, respond, recover, mitigate and prevent) with regard to 10 of the situations listed below. You must use situations 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 below in boldface, but you may choose any other five listed here 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 crash
(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 in the country
(10 Mountian/backcountry accident
(11) Boating or water accident
(12) as leak in a home or 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

2. Meet with and teach your family how to get or build a kit, make a plan, and be informed for the situation on the chart you created for requirement 2b. Complete a family plan. Then meet with your counselor and report on your family meeting, discuss their responses, and share your family plan.

3. Show how you could safely save a person from the following:

(a) Touching a live household electric wire
(b) A room filled with carbon monoxide
(c) Clothes on fire
(d) Drowning, using nonswimming 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 transport on injured person out of a remote and/or rugged area, conserving the energy of rescuers while ensuring the will-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 they need, and the safety precautions they should take for the following emergency services.

(1) Crowd and 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 emergency management director and learn what this person does to prepare, respond to, recover from, and mitigate and prevent 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.

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) A personal emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Prepare a family emergency kit (suitcase or waterproof box) for use by your family in case an emergency evaluation 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 an accident prevention program for five family activities outside the home (such as taking a picnic or seeing a movie) that includes an analysis of possible hazards, a proposed plan to correct those hazards, and the reasons for the corrections you propose

Requirements January 2016 until Current

1. Earn the First Aid merit badge.

2. Do the following:

(a) Discuss with your counselor the aspects of emergency preparedness:

(1) Prepare for emergency situations.
(2) Respond to emergency situations
(3) Recover from emergency situations
(4) Prevent emergency situations
(5) Mitigate losses in emergency situations

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 your understanding of each of the aspects of emergency preparedness in requirement 2a (prepare, respond, recover, prevent and mitigate) with regard to 10 of the situations listed below. You must use situations 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 below in boldface, but you may choose any other five listed here 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 crash
(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 in the country
(10) Mountian/backcountry accident
(11) Boating or water accident
(12) Gas leak in a home or a building
(13) Tornado or hurricane
(14) Major flood
(15) Toxic chemical spills and release
(16) Nuclear power plant emergency
(17) Avalanche (snowslide or rockslide)
(18) Violence in a public place

(c) Meet with and teach your family how to get or build a kit, make a plan, and be informed for the situations on the chart you created for requirement 2b. Complete a family plan. Then meet with your counselor and report on your family meeting, discuss their responses, and share your family plan.

3. how how you could safely save a person from the following:

(a) Touching a live household electric wire
(b) A structure filled with carbon monoxide
(c) Clothes on fire
(d) Drowning, using nonswimming 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 transport on injured person out of a remote and/or rugged area, conserving the energy of rescuers while ensuring the will-being and protection of the injured person.

6. Do the following:

(a) Describe the National Incident Management System (NIMS)/Incident Command System (ICS).
(b) Identify the government or community agencies that normally handle and prepare for the emergency services listed similar to those of the NIMS or ICS. Explain to your counselor ONE of the following:

(1) How the NIMS/ICS can assist a Boy Scout troop when responding in a disaster
(2) 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 emergency management director and learn what this person does to prepare, respond to, recover from, prevent, and mitigate 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. Do the following:

(a) Take part in an emergency service project, either a real one or a practice drill, with a Scouting unit or a community agency.
(b) 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.

8. Do the following:

(a) Tell the things a group of Scouts should be prepared to do, the training they need, and the safety precautions they should take for the following emergency services:

(1) Crowd and traffic control
(2) Messenger service and communication
(3) Collection and distribution services
(4) Group feeding, shelter, and sanitation

(b) Prepare a personal emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Prepare a family emergency kit (suitcase or waterproof box) for use by your family in case an emergency evaluation 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 an accident prevention program for five family activities outside the home (such as taking a picnic or seeing a movie) that includes an analysis of possible hazards, a proposed plan to correct those hazards, and the reasons for the corrections you propose