1. Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness Program
Trainers Name:
Tel:

2. Neighbourhood Program Facilitator’s Training
Meeting #2 Slides

3. Be Prepared Not Scared
Emergency Preparedness Starts with YOU

4. BC Hazards: Forest Fires Flooding Severe Weather
Transportation of Dangerous Goods
Industrial Fire/Explosion
Earthquake / Tsunami

5. Neighbourhood Program: Personal/Family Preparedness
Develop a Family Plan:
Identify & protect from home hazards
Learn & practice emergency procedures
Establish (2) evacuation routes out of your home
Establish (2) safe meeting spots for family members to gather
Establish out-of-province contact
Gather necessary supplies

6. N’hood Team Organization

7. Team Leadership Responsibilities:
Promotes involvement & recruits new neighbours
Encourages, monitors & assists Unit Leaders in completing their plans & activities
Provides overall leadership & team coordination
Coordinates & prioritizes issues addressed by response units

8. Team Leadership Desired Characteristics:
Leadership & organizational skills
Trusted & accepted by neighbours
Able to delegate, facilitate & make decisions
Good interpersonal & communication skills
Availability

9. First Aid Unit Responsibilities:
Selects a suitable location as a first aid station
Plans (in advance) for neighbours who may require special care
Conducts triage of those injured
Provides on-site first aid care & emotional support to injured neighbours (within limits)
Refers to outside medical assistance

10. First Aid Unit Desired Characteristics:
First Aid training or willingness to obtain first aid skills
Safety conscious
Calm & caring
Background in counselling
Good interpersonal & communications skills

11. Utilities & Fire Suppression Unit
Responsibilities:
Utilizes info from Damage Assessment Unit
Reduces hazards from fire & damaged utilities
Shuts off gas meters, electricity, & water, if necessary
Cordons off hazardous
areas

12. Utilities & Fire Suppression Unit
Desired Characteristics:
Basic knowledge of utilities & their shut-offs
Familiarity with building construction
Physical strength and good health
Organized & safety conscious

13. Light Urban Search & Rescue Unit
Responsibilities:
Utilizes Damage Assessment info to:
access/stabilize structures
locate missing neighbours
rescue trapped & injured
transport injured to safety
Uses safe & effective rescue techniques
Marks all searched areas with X

14. Light Urban Search & Rescue Unit
Desired Characteristics:
Search & Rescue experience or training
Knowledge of building construction
Knowledge of utilities
Physical strength & good health
Organized & safety conscious
Ability to assess situation & make decisions

15. Communications & Transportation Unit
Responsibilities:
Liaises closely with Team Leader
Provides a communication link between n’hood response units
Provides a communication link between n’hood team & municipality & outside resources
Provides transportation services, as needed

16. Communications & Transportation Unit
Desired Characteristics:
Good listening skills & verbal skills
Clear handwriting
Amateur radio licence & equipment (ideal)
Ability to speak slowly, clearly & distinctly
Valid driver’s license & larger vehicle

17. Shelter & Care Giving Unit
Responsibilities:
Provides a safe, clean environment for neighbours to gather
Provides care for the young, frail & special needs (may include pet care)
Offers warmth, emotional support, nourishment and sanitary needs
Provides temporary food & shelter for neighbours unable to return to their homes

18. Shelter & Care Giving Unit
Desired Characteristics:
Parenting skills
Strong interpersonal skills
Child care experience
Home care experience
Good hosting skills
Emergency Social Services training

19. Damage Assessment Unit
Responsibilities:
One of initial response activities
Conducts a rapid & accurate preliminary assessment of damage, hazards, safe & unsafe areas in the n’hood
Reports findings to N’hood Team Leader
Provides ongoing, updated surveys of damage N’hood sustains

20. Damage Assessment Unit
Desired Characteristics:
Good knowledge of building construction
Organized & safety conscious
Able to communicate clearly & make decisions

21. N’hood Team Setup
Inventory skills & resources of neighbours - appoint to response units
Complete individual/family preparedness
Prepare map & layout of n’hood
Identify known hazards as well as local resources
Identify Team assembly point (AP)
Establish communication methods
Identify response unit gathering points
Stockpile & locate supplies
Obtain additional training & exercises

22. Emergency Supplies: Neighbourhood Team
N’hood Map
First Aid Supplies
Flashlights
Battery Operated Radio
Water Supply
Cooking Equipment
Tarp
Tables/Chairs
Clipboards & stationery
Survey & duct tape
Fire extinguishers
Gas shut-off wrench
Water key
Sanitation supplies
Tools (hammers, crowbars, saw, axes, wrenches, etc.)
Hardhats & gloves
Communication equipment

23. N’hood/Personal Safety Principles
“I am No. 1” (Safety first)
Be Prepared
Teamwork
Know your limits
Document activity
Report to Team Leader
Improvise/Be flexible & adaptable
Take charge responsibly

24. N’hood Response - People Dynamics
Prepare & Anticipate:
Personality clashes
Ego’s
Rigidity
“Authority”
“Ricky Rescuers”
Varying levels of stress
Loved-ones injured or loss of life

25. N’hood Response - Sequence of Activities
Neighbours report to Assembly Point
Account for missing people
Organize response unit action
Organize available resources
Establish communications with team & community at large
Conduct rapid damage assessment
Conduct basic fire suppression & utilities safety
Establish first aid
Conduct search & rescue
Establish shelter & care giving

26. First Aid Unit Information Needed: Location of first aid station
Number & seriousness of injuries
Fatalities known
Need/Urgency for outside medical assistance
Family notification, as required

27. Utilities & Fire Suppression Unit
Information Needed:
Hazards known & located
Hazards controlled
Hazards not controlled
Areas cordoned off
Status of utilities
People information (trapped/injured)
Need/Urgency for evacuation

28. Light Urban Search & Rescue Unit
Information Needed:
Number of homes searched
Number of people found & rescued
Number of people found & not rescued, & their location
Number of fatalities & their location
Status of injuries - for first aid unit
Any hazards observed, controlled, not controlled & marked on map

29. Communications & Transportation Unit
Information Needed:
Communication requirements for each response unit
Status report from each response unit
Team Leader’s approval of what information to share with municipality & external resources
Transportation requirements

30. Shelter & Care Giving Unit
Information Needed:
Location of shelter
Families registered
Number of children, frail & special needs requiring care & their status
Number of pets requiring care
Resources & nourishment available or now limited

31. Damage Assessment Unit
Information Needed:
Extent & type of damage observed
Structural damage
Utilities damaged
Hazards noted (non-structural)
Areas cordoned off or needing cordoned off
People information (trapped/injured)