Individual Emergency Preparedness Award Requirements
Boy Scout and Varsity Scout Requirements
- Participate in creating an emergency plan for your home and for your troop or team's Scouting activities. Be sure you know the details of both emergency plans.
- Earn the First Aid or Emergency Preparedness merit badge.
- With your troop or team, including its adult leaders, participate in emergency preparedness training conducted by community emergency preparedness agencies.
- Complete IS-100.b, Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp ).
Unit Volunteer Scouter Requirements
This award is available to all registered Scouters who serve a unit, including all leaders and committee members.
Do any three of the following:
- Provide input to develop or improve an emergency preparedness program plan and kit for your home and be sure all family members know the plan.
- Participate actively in preparing an emergency action plan for your Scouting unit meeting place. (This includes all locations where you might have a meeting.)
- Put together a unit emergency kit to be kept at your unit meeting location. (This includes all locations where you might have a meeting.)
- Take a basic first-aid/CPR/AED course.
- Participate as an active volunteer in a community agency responsible for disaster preparedness.
- Complete IS-100.b, Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp ).
Unit-Level Achievement
Achieve the mandatory requirements below, and:
- Bronze Level: If 30 percent of your youth and adult members have achieved the award.
- Silver Level: If 40 percent of your youth and adult members have achieved the award.
- Gold Level: If 50 percent of your youth and adult members have achieved the award.
Mandatory Unit Requirements
- The unit members conduct a check or create a unit and personal first-aid kit.
- The unit members conduct a safety check of their meeting place using the checklist in the Guide to Safe Scouting.
- The Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Coach, or Advisor and the assistant Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, Coaches, or Advisors, and the unit committee chair have in their possession and have read the most current Guide to Safe Scouting.
- The unit members create an emergency action plan for unit use during regular meetings, tours, and activities. See http://www.scouting.org/filestore/doc/680-029.doc .
- Greater than 40 percent of registered adults are trained in Safety A?oat and Safe Swim Defense.
- Greater than 40 percent of registered members, including at least one adult, are trained in ?rst aid and CPR/AED by a recognized agency such as the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, the American Red Cross, or the American Heart Association.
- Greater than 40 percent of unit members completed the SCOUTStrong fitness program or earned the Quest Award.
- Mandatory for troops and teams only: All youth members with a driving permit or driver’s license have earned the Tra?c Safety merit badge.
- Mandatory for troops and teams only: Greater than 40 percent of registered Scouts have earned the First Aid merit badge and are certified in CPR/Wilderness First Aid.
- Mandatory for Venturing crews only: All youth with a driving permit or driver’s license have taken Venturing Out: Keys to Safe Driving online or attended a group presentation of the Risk Zone: Transporting Scouts Safely.
- Mandatory for Venturing crews only: Greater than 40 percent of registered crew members are trained in CPR/AED by a nationally recognized agency such as the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, the American Red Cross, or the American Heart Association.
- Mandatory for troops/teams/Venturing crews only: Greater than 40 percent of registered Scouts and adults have completed IS-100.b, Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp ).
Do one of the following:
- The unit conducts a safety promotion with the community about emergency preparedness and/or readiness.
- Identify a unit’s risk management or health and safety o?cer. Attach a copy of the duties and responsibilities assigned to this position to the application.
Emergency Preparedness BSA pin, No. 00540 (civilian wear/uniform, centered on left pocket flap). Awarded when requirements are met. Only one pin may be worn.
Emergency Preparedness BSA information pocket card, No. 32185
Emergency Preparedness BSA support recognition certificate (8'' x 10"), No. 32186
All emergency activities carried out by Scouting units must be appropriate for the ages and abilities of the young people involved. Units should participate only under the supervision of their own leaders, and plans for unit help must be coordinated with community agencies responsible for disaster preparedness.