Steps for Putting Together an Emergency Action Plan By Professor The steps for creating an EAP (Emegencey Action Plan) can be easily implemented by following these simple steps. The first is to have an extensive phone list. On top of the list should be 911 and local fire‚ police‚ and hospitals followed by a list of contacts in a chain of command format. In an emergent situation it is best to lay everything out clearly since things can get hectic. A list of all availible equipment
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Health and safety responsibilities in schools derive in the main from the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and associated regulations. Health and safety duties and responsibilities apply to employers of school staff and employees. In practice employers may delegate specific health and safety tasks to individuals‚ but the employer retains the ultimate responsibility no matter who carries out the tasks. The employer should therefore maintain records‚ making clear who is responsible for tasks
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to: • Eliminate the risk; or • Mitigate the risk‚ if elimination is not feasible; or • Cope with it‚ if neither elimination nor mitigation is feasible. The identification of appropriate risk mitigation measures requires a good understanding of the hazard and the factors contributing to its occurrence. For this reason‚ a risk matrix needs to be completed. Risk mitigation measures may work by reducing the probability of occurrence‚ or the severity of the consequences‚ or both. Achieving the desired
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Towards a Safer India Education in Disaster Management... Central Board of Secondary Education‚ Preet Vihar‚ Delhi - 110092 Education in Disaster Management The booklet has been developed by a team comprising of Advisor : Sh. Ashok Ganguly‚ Chairman‚ CBSE Co-ordinator: Sh. G. Balasubramanian‚ Director (Academic)‚ CBSE Authored & edited by: 1. 2. Smt. Sugandh Sharma‚ Education Officer‚ CBSE Ms. Balaka Dey‚ Programme Associate‚ GoI-UNDP‚ DRM Programme Contents: Page 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6
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unpredictable natural disasters events for a decade has led to put the disaster preparedness as a central issue in disaster management. Disaster preparedness greatly reduces the risk of loss lives and injuries and increases a capacity for coping when hazard occurs. Considering the value of the preparatory behavior‚ governments‚ local‚ national and international institutions and non-government organizations made some efforts in promoting disaster preparedness. However‚ although a number of resources have
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community participation and that of relevant stakeholders in the preparation process has resulted in lack of ownership among intended users and beneficiaries. Disasters tend to happen to people at risk. People are at risk because they are vulnerable to hazards. This vulnerability can be best reduced by increasing people’s capacities to deal with underlying social‚ cultural and physical factors. The key to successful disaster management plan is to ensure involvement of people who are victims and who are
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acid content of the air‚ i.e. Canadian lakes and Scandinavia Rationalization and Relativism - When everything turns into a hazard‚ nothing seems dangerous anymore. - “Ignorance is bliss.” - Risk society switches from hysteria to indifference. Boomerang Effect - Eventually risks and hazards catch up with those who create and profit from creating the risks and hazards. (Karma) Ecological devaluation and expropriation - Boomerang effect also affects media‚ money‚ property and legitimation
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Risk can be explained in various ways‚ so long as it combines a hazard with the probability of a specified outcome or multiple outcomes. Risk is the product of a possibility of loss‚ misfortune or simply an accident and the probability that this hazard occurs. Police officers and fire fighters‚ for example have their own personal safety compromised on multiple occasions. This is why before becoming a part
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might take. It can be used as a guide to think through some of the hazards in your business and the steps you need to take to control the risks. Please note that it is not a generic risk assessment that you can just put your company name on and adopt wholesale without any thought. This would not satisfy the law - and would not be effective in protecting people. Every business is different - you need to think through the hazards and controls required in your business for yourself. This example
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2] A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] Environmental disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. But the
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