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Sign up for Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER)
Form Approved
OMB No: 0920-0956
Exp. Date: March 31, 2016
Environmental health practitioners
and others should sign up now for the
Environmental Health Training
in Emergency Response (EHTER)
to learn how to respond to environmental
health threats during disasters.
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CDC healthcare response team providing supplies to a community.
Take EHTER and learn:
❚❚ Disaster management
❚❚ Responder safety and health
❚❚ Food and drinking water safety in an emergency
❚❚ Shelter and building assessments in an emergency
❚❚ Wastewater and solid waste handling in an emergency
❚❚ Vector control and pest management in an emergency
❚❚ Radiation and environmental health response in an
emergency
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To sign up, visit http://address_here
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CDC healthcare response team providing clean water after a disaster.
National Center for Environmental Health
Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRAINING
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Form Approved
OMB No: 0920-0956
Exp. Date: March 31, 2016
EHTER graduates respond to emergencies:
Two stories
Safeguarding environmental health
during emergencies
Read about two cases where EHTER graduates responded
to emergencies using their new skills.
During emergencies, environmental health practitioners
perform many critical functions, such as assessing
shelters, testing drinking water, conducting food safety
inspections, and controlling disease-causing vectors.
To be able to quickly select and execute protective
actions, environmental health practitioners need
additional training to handle the specific challenges that
may arise during disasters.
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Emergency: Train derailment in New York
Geoff Snyder, Environmental Health Director in Madison
County, New York, relates how EHTER prepared him for
real-world emergency responses. “I feel very fortunate to
have attended the EHTER course when I did. The CSX train
derailment in Madison County served as a prime example
of why we need to be prepared for such emergencies,”
Snyder says.
“The concepts covered during the EHTER course,” Snyder
says, “were very helpful during the emergency and our
subsequent response activities…we hope to secure the
same training for all county environmental health staff as
well as other public health staff and emergency responders.”
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To learn more about additional course options, vIsit
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/eLearn/EHTER.htm
CDC experts are working closely with the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Center for
Domestic Preparedness (CDP), in Anniston, Alabama, to
develop several types of EHTER courses, including:
❚❚ An independent-study, online awareness level course
offered through FEMA’s Independent Study
Program web site
❚❚ An instructor-led operations level course
❚❚ An instructor-led planning and management
level course
CDC experts are working closely with the International
Federation of Environmental Health to develop and
deliver EHTER-based courses and workshops
internationally. For more information, please visit
http://www.ifeh.org/ehdm/index.html
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Emergency: Tornado in Kansas
Just a few weeks after completing the EHTER training, some
EHTER graduates in Kansas faced a challenge when an
EF-5 tornado devastated Greensburg, Kansas. The tornado
had winds of over 200 miles per hour. Many of the officials
who responded to the disaster were EHTER-trained, which
substantially aided them in responding to the crisis.
EHTER-trained responders evaluated malfunctioning
septic systems and wastewater problems and protected
food. They also sanitized flooded basements, rehabilitated
drinking water wells, and assisted with environmental
incident command operations.
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