REFLECTION ON INFORMATION BEFORE DURING AND AFTER THE EMERGENCY
In our country there is a delay rather worrying in the promotion of experience and training to prepare the public to emergencies.
The delay in training is camouflaged with occasional interventions by type of information, made the best of times through flyers, often following the events of crisis That give the feeling of taking action to improve safety and security of citizens while contributing to the trivialization that characterizes communication in these cases.
We were able to verify that in recent years, however, has changed the attitude of the population. In the past tended not to want to know, to consider all controlled by fate and by fate.
In contrast, citizens now expect to be informed of the risks present in their territory and to be put in a position to manage them.
Perhaps administrators are not yet They caught on to this new demand by citizens and then fail to keep pace with the times.
Despite the difficulties of the local regulatory authorities to implement a serious plan information on the risks, many organizations both environmental and civil protection, has been working in the field of civil protection, accident prevention and training to security.
Conduct a serious plan information means making a series of complex interventions in various fields, including the most important are:
A. The communication
should enable citizens to a comprehensive communication, continuous, quiet, precise risks in the area.
Citizens have a right to know what risks are subject to and how to behave in an emergency.
Instead, even today, people are dispossessed of this right and treated like children who do not need to know not to panic.
This does not, therefore, to implement prevention of serious work that can provide preventive measures and those emergency.
B. What training
need for continuous training and widespread, according to the principles set out in the Memorandum of Adult Education of the European Commission in 2000 which active citizen participation on environmental issues in their territory, to motivate them to 'learning the correct rules of conduct in case of emergency.
Without knowledge there can be consensus and motivation to implement the measures of risk prevention, the correct behavior in case of emergency and, finally, the accession exercises proposed by the local authorities to prepare emergency.
C. That exercise
The exercises are necessary to prepare citizens to respond adequately to various environmental emergencies and prevent the most serious consequences in relation to the occurrence of crisis events.
The exercises allow you to design a series of technical, operational, strategic, cultural and social systems in which it is necessary to activate an intense inter-institutional work, without which it is unrealistic to think of being able to involve population
Risk communication to the public
order to achieve good risk management requires an effective risk communication to all citizens first , during and after the emergency.
This statement should provide:
Advance information
aims to put every individual in terms of:
1.conoscere the risk faced by ,
2. verify the correct warning signs
3. take the appropriate behaviors during an emergency,
The objectives of risk communication are:
• recognition by the people of their right to be informed
• improving the knowledge and understanding of the risks of its territory
• psicocomportamentale behavior acquisition procedures in emergencies
• creation of a sub-culture of the emergency to make the controllable risk cognitively.
In summary, every person should experience specific to the type
-KNOW-LEARN PREVENT that will:
• know the risk in their environment (know)
• become familiar with the types of unexpected randomness, unusual (be able)
• be able to develop self-protective capacity in emergency situations (skills). •
practice to learn and make automatic sequences correct behavior to cope with the event (skills).
• develop a positive relationship with the rescue and civil protection organizations and law and order to prevent risks and work with them in case of emergency (be able). •
feel a collective situation developing containment relations helpers in their community (interpersonal skills and know-how).
All this can only happen if you are prepared Plans Civil Protection Municipal ( Leg. Art.108 31.03.1998 No 112 Conferral of functions and tasks of the State to the regions and local authorities, The Act No 24 February 1992 225 ) that every municipality required by law to prepare and disseminate to the public.
The civil protection plan is a bit 'as the evacuation plan from public buildings, which many of us have seen exposed in public places and not (schools, hospitals, cinemas, clinics, centers commercial, private offices, etc ... .. in those graphic shows the path and the best behavior for safety, but it is also shown how to recognize the alarm signal. The evacuation plans are required, each of us in his own work is required to form and train the staff on prevention and safety.
The same is for the municipality must draw up plans and train the users of the plans (the public, responders) and update them.
Some of questions we should ask ourselves:
But our town will have these plans?
And contemplate the many scenarios which could have been done?
And how long?
Given the prediction and prevention plan which has been taken.
