Certified Emergency & Disaster Professional
(CEDP)
Launched in 2014, the CEDP addresses the understanding of real-world emergency and disaster management preparedness planning, incident response, mitigation efforts, and recovery actions. responsibilities and related to emergency and disaster management. CEDP credential holders come from a variety backgrounds including private sectors, businesses, hospitals, healthcare facilities, public health organizations, municipalities, counties, emergency management agencies, emergency coalitions, law enforcement, fire response, first responders, military personnel, and all types of governmental agencies at local, state, and federal levels. The exam addresses concepts and principles related to protecting people, property, and resources during times of emergencies, disasters, and pandemics.
(please note: applications expire within 90 days)
CEDP Exam Blueprint
Note: CEDP exams contain 125 to 160 multiple choice items depending on the Form taken. Items are weighted at 1 point or 1.5 points. The Board determines passing or cut scores using total points earned and then reports pass or fail results using a Standard Scaled Score.
| Domains | 100-150 items |
|---|---|
| 1. Emergency Management | 39% |
| 2. Disaster Preparedness | 35% |
| 3. Safety & Environmental | 26% |
Domain 1–Emergency Management (39%)
CEDP holders must understand emergency preparedness concepts related to the development of policies, procedures, and plans needed to protect employees, visitors, property, and the public. Determine effectiveness of emergency related functions and relevant systems by using collaboration, communication, and coordination. Apply sound management practices to improve emergency/disaster functions. Ensure all stakeholders understand their roles in formulation, coordination, and implementation of emergency preparedness and disaster response actions. Communicate and coordinate effectively with organizations, government agencies, incident command structures, contractors, vendors, and the public about emergency management requirements.
Domain 1 Topics
- Identify agency coordination and collaboration actions.
- Identify authorities and responsibilities.
- Identify communication needs and issues.
- Given a scenario identify disaster response and recovery actions.
- Given a scenario identify and apply emergency management concepts.
- Given a scenario identify emergency response and coalition issues.
- Given a scenario identity federal agency planning activities and capabilities
- Identify FEMA defined terms, concepts, and principles.
- Identify governmental agency coordination actions.
- Identify hazard analysis needs, techniques, and methods.
- Identify common healthcare emergency requirements.
- Identify human resource management in disaster management.
- Identify hazards related to pre and post disaster situations.
- Identify incident command system processes and methods
- Identify information and data management processes.
- Identify key leadership principles and management concepts.
- Given a scenario identify key lessons learned information.
- Identify emergency management models.
- Identify medical services capabilities and system challenges.
- Given a scenario identification mitigation, planning, and recovery issues.
- Identify natural and weather-related risks and hazards.
- Identify key principles in effective operational planning.
- Identify issues related to operational and organizational structures.
- Identify challenges and objectives of disaster planning effectiveness.
- Given a scenario identify key preparedness management issues
- Identify resource acquisition and allocation challenges.
- Identify response sector key objectives and priorities.
- Identify supply chains challenges.
- Given a scenario identify key issues related to sustaining operations.
- Identify system methods and processes.
Domain 2—Disaster Preparedness (35%)
Evaluate facilities, products, systems, equipment, and processes to ensure proper planning to support protection, response, mitigation, and recovery actions during disasters. Recommend actions to minimize hazards and reduce risks during disasters. Evaluate and coordinate response actions with appropriate agencies, institutions, coalitions, and others. Ensure the feasibility, effectiveness, and reliability of operations to support all types of incidents. Implement strategies to promote hazard identification actions, risk analyses, planning, and coordination to reduce the impact of disasters. Communicate disaster related hazards, risks, and control measures to employees, management, vendors, and the public.
Domain 2 Topics
- Identify agency coordination processes, issues, and challenges
- Identify key command and control objectives.
- Given a scenario identify cyber security threat actions
- Given a scenario identify disaster response actions.
- Identify key drill exercise objectives and purposes,
- Identify emergency support functions.
- Given a scenario identify federal agency capabilities and responsibilities
- Identify key FEMA core capabilities.
- Given a scenario identify hazardous material issues and controls.
- Identify the reasons for maintaining useful information collection and sharing.
- Identify challenges facing information technology during a disaster
- Identify infrastructure security and resilience issues.
- Identify reasons that lessons learned information is critical.
- Identify management authority models of leadership.
- Given a scenario identify appropriate medical services needed.
- Given a scenario identify needed mitigation activities.
- Identify the importance of national incident planning.
- Identify natural disasters and weather risks.
- Identify nuclear, chemical, and biological hazards and risks.
- Given a scenario identify operational priorities and organizational response
- Identify methods to protect infrastructures.
- Identify public safety issues that relate to resilience efforts.
- Identify resource availability priorities and issues.
- Given a scenario identify response structures and commands.
- Given a scenario identify needed sector capabilities and support
- Identify terror threats.
- Identify threat assessment priorities and methods.
- Identify the impact of technology or transportation disasters.
Domain 3—Safety and Environmental (26%)
Develop education and training by establishing objectives to impart knowledge and facilitate understanding of compliance and voluntary standards. Hold paramount the protection of people, property, and environment by working with management and government agencies. Address safety and environmental risks/hazards that pose threats to safety and health. Adhere to ethical conduct by limiting professional practice to areas of competence and avoid all conflicts of interest. Demonstrate working knowledge of codes, standards, and best practices in safety and environmental risks.
Domain 3 Topics
Develop education and training by establishing objectives to impart knowledge and facilitate understanding of compliance and voluntary standards. Hold paramount the protection of people, property, and environment by working with management and government agencies. Address safety and environmental risks/hazards that pose threats to safety and health. Adhere to ethical conduct by limiting professional practice to areas of competence and avoid all conflicts of interest. Demonstrate working knowledge of codes, standards, and best practices in safety and environmental risks.
- Identify ANSI standards (PPE, eyewash stations, etc.)
- Identify CDC disaster related information available.
- Identify disaster related content found in CFRs 10, 21, 29, 40, 42, 44, 49
- Identify DHS oversight, roles, terrorism, drills, exercises, & responsibilities
- Given a scenario identify disaster related hazards.
- Identify the purpose of emergency and disaster legislation.
- Identify EPA responsibilities and hazardous materials standards.
- Identify FDA disaster roles and responsibilities.
- Identify federal disaster framework and organization.
- Identify FEMA roles, responsibilities, objectives, planning documents
- Identify food and water safety issues.
- Identify methods of hazard identification and analysis.
- Identify hazardous materials exposure standards.
- Identify information management, access, and security.
- Identify standard requirements for life and fire safety
- Identify key issues related to managing emergency utilities.
- Identify NFPA standards and codes that apply to disaster situations.
- NIOSH disaster related safety information
- NRC roles, responsibilities, and standards
- Identify occupational safety hazards and potential exposures
- Identify OSHA requirements (HAZCOM, HAZWOPER, First Aid, Hazardous Materials)
- Identify key pandemic and other medical surge or evacuation situations
- Given a scenario identify needed personnel protective equipment.
- Identify physical security requirements in aftermath of disasters.
CEDP Suggested Voluntary Study Resources
- Disaster & Emergency Workers Safety & Health, Anne, WSH-1, 2013
- CEDP self- study. Buy it HERE.
- Emergency/Disaster Support Function (ESF) Annexes 1 through 15, DHS, 2016
- Federal Agency Websites (CDC, DHHS, DHS, ASPR CMS, EPA, FDA, OSHA & NIOSH)
- Healthcare Disaster Preparedness & Emergency Management at: www.osha.gov
- Mitigation Federal Interagency Operational Plan, 2nd Edition, August 2016, DHS
- National Disaster Recovery Framework, 2nd Edition, June 2016, DHS
- National Incident Management System 3rd Edition, October 2017, FEMA
- National Mitigation Framework, 2nd Edition, June 2016, DHS
- National Prevention Framework, 2nd Edition, June 2016, DHS
- National Protection Framework, 2nd Edition, June 2016, DHS
- National Response Framework, 4th Edition, October 2019, DHS
- NFPA 1600, 2013 Edition
- NFPA 101-2012, Life Safety Code Handbook
- NFPA 99-2012, Health Care Facilities Code Handbook
- Protection Federal Interagency Operational Plan, 1st Edition, August 2016
- Response/Recovery Federal Interagency Operational Plan, 1st Edition, March 2023, DHS
- The Joint Commission EM Accreditation Standards, 2022
(please note: applications expire within 90 days)