Once emergency needs have been met and the initial crisis is over, the people affected and the communities that support them are still vulnerable. Recovery activities include rebuilding infrastructure, health care and rehabilitation. These should blend with development activities, such as building human resources for health and developing policies and practices to avoid similar situations…
It occurs in the first few weeks after the disaster has taken place, and focuses on rescuing victims, providing them with temporary shelter, health care, counseling and mental health services, clothing, food and water, and foster care. This stage is usually accomplished by emergency aid agencies. these agencies concentrate on completing the following tasks: 1. Mobilizing…
Disaster preparedness activities embedded with risk reduction measures can prevent disaster situations and also result in saving maximum lives and livelihoods during any disaster situation, enabling the affected population to get back to normalcy within a short time period. These activities are designed to minimise loss of life and damage – for example by removing people…
These are activities designed to provide permanent protection from disasters. Not all disasters, particularly natural disasters, can be prevented, but the risk of loss of life and injury can be mitigated with good evacuation plans, environmental planning and design standards. In January 2005, 168 Governments adopted a 10-year global plan for natural disaster risk reduction…
There is no country that is immune from disaster, though vulnerability to disaster varies. There are four main types of disaster. ● Natural disasters: including floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcano eruptions that have immediate impacts on human health and secondary impacts causing further death and suffering from (for example) floods, landslides, fires, tsunamis. ● Environmental emergencies: including…
Disaster management aims to reduce, or avoid, the potential losses from hazards, assure prompt and appropriate assistance to victims of disaster, and achieve rapid and effective recovery. The Disaster management cycle illustrates the ongoing process by which governments, businesses, and civil society plan for and reduce the impact of disasters, react during and immediately following…
Now we know all the constituents of a fire and various kinds of fire-extinguishers. If you have to fight a fire, depending on the circumstances, you have to decide as to what method/strategy (i.e. which arm to fight) you would like to use. Accordingly, you might want to choose an appropriate extinguisher. Lets look at some…
Let us also understand the classes of fires. Class A These are fires that involve some solid material like, clothers, paper, junk-heap, wood etc. Class B These are fires that involve liquid materials like: petrol, gasoline, diesel, oil etc. Class C These are fires that involve electrical elements Class D These are fires are those involve…