Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather Topics

Safety management
A main component of disaster management is safety. Safety management makes reference to all the possible strategies that can be implemented to assure the safety of workers while performing their jobs. The purpose of safety management is to prevent hazards and reduce potential harmful incidents that can occur in the workplace. The strategies implemented can include safety prevention measures such as the use of personal protective equipment or the establishment of health and safety policies. NIOSH and RAND produced four reports in a series detailing previous emergency responses associated to terrorist attacks.The first three reports provide recommendations and the need for research, training and other strategic approaches to help protect emergency responders in terrorist attacks. These reports describe the lessons learned from previous terrorist attacks, while making an emphasis in preparedness, suggesting the implementation of training and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).The fourth report is a technical source for emergency response following large structural collapse events. From the experience with collapsed buildings, the report provides examples of documented health effects, varying from evidence of respiratory and biological hazards to chemical and physical hazards. The report explains the need of establishing PPE guidelines and offers advice for its use and compatibility, and provides guidance on how to set safe exposure limits.

Homework: Write a composition about the topic
Theme: 2 Natural disaster
Plan:

1. Definition

2. Definition abaout natural disaster

3. 
   The disaster management cycle
   

Definition

A natural disaster is characterized by the abnormal intensity of a natural agent (flood, mudslide, earthquake, avalanche, drought) when the usual measures to be taken to prevent this damage were not able to prevent their emergence or were not able to be taken. An interministerial order notices the state of natural disaster. He allows the compensation of the damage directly caused to the insured goods, set up by the 13 July 1982 law, relative to the compensation of the victims of natural disasters. A natural disaster is recorded only if it causes damage not covered by usual insurance policies.
Forest fires and damage related to wind are not the subject of natural disaster rulings because they are insurable in conformance with the basic guarantee. In that case, no order of natural disaster is taken even if goods were destroyed.

What is disaster?

Disasters are serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceed its capacity to cope using its own resources. Disasters can be caused by natural, man-made and technological hazards, as well as various factors that influence the exposure and vulnerability of a community.
Disasters happen when a community is “not appropriately resourced or organized to withstand the impact, and whose population is vulnerable because of poverty, exclusion or socially disadvantaged in some way” (Mizutori, 2020).