Activity 3

Emergency Protocols and Raising Awareness
Key Questions:
What does each of the terms in emergency management mean?
Would this emergency cycle work as well if one of the four aspects was missing? Explain your answer ('Mitigation' is to reduce the severity of the situation.)
How are disabled people aided?
Who are response workers?
How are animals accomodated in such disasters?
How are speciality cases treated? ie. pregnant women.
What professions involve protecting the planet?




Emergency Protocols
Task 1 
(i) In the same groups of four, choose three new natural disasters and/or extreme weather forms each. Determine the appropriate emergency protocols to suit each natural disaster or extreme weather form by use of the website below.
(i) What are the 10 major health and safety concerns in the event of a natural disaster?
(ii) How did locals of North Dakota cope with the extreme rising levels of floodwater, ice jams, blizards and melting snow? What safety maechanisms or protocols were used?
(iii) What was done to stop the wildfire blazes 'Down-under' in Australia in 2009?



Key Questions:
What can we do in our local community to help those who suffered a natural disaster in their area?
What are the things I can do personally?
How can a country recover from such disasters?
How can we promote awareness?
What organisations, other than W.A.N.D.A., already engage in various forms of relief?
Where have there been recent outbrakes of these 12 disasters and extreme weather forms?
What is the emergency central for disease control and prevention (C.D.C.) doing to help victims of disaster?
What does the C.D.C. advise one should do?



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