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EAP WORKSHOP WEEK NINE
Welcome to week nine. Emergency Evacuation.
At this point in the Emergency Action Planning Workshop you will be assembling various pieces of earlier training into specific packages for deployment.
Learning Objective Five Risk Management.
Learning Objective Nine Rally Points
Learning Objective Ten Practice
As much as we will dislike the idea. At some point, your home will become unsafe.
Your family will be in danger, and you will need to make a decision to move them away from the house.
The sooner you take action the smoother and safer your evacuation will be.
Wait too long and leaving may no longer be an option.
Three things needed to build your basic emergency evacuation plan.
Why do you need to evacuate?
Where are you going?
How do you plan on getting there?
This is your 80% solution. Once you have these defined along with the rest of your Emergency Action Plan, you can come back to polish it up.
Additional Material;
Emergency Evacuation Working Template
Evacuating People with Disabilities
With any event.
What are the risks associated with an evacuation? Planned or Immediate.
Besides the hazard, you are evacuating from. The act of evacuation poses its own risks.
Accidents can cause the greatest amount of death and injury above and beyond the event you are running from.
People who are stressed out will not be thinking clearly. Their actions may pose a danger to themselves and those around them.
Refer to week three Learning objective Five for a recap of Risk Management information.
Identify the Hazard
Assess the Hazard
Develop controls and make risk decisions
Implement controls
Supervise and evaluate.
Do not accept unrealistic risk.
Till next time
“Be Safe”