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Integration of Risk Information and Early Warnings in Emergency Preparedness

This session discusses fundamental questions related to risk communication, political decision-making, community awareness, alarm signals, operating procedures, monitoring institutions, emergency operations planning, socioeconomic implications, hazard coverage, and evacuation routes in early warning systems.

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Integration of Risk Information and Early Warnings in Emergency Preparedness

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  1. Session V: Integration of Risk Information and Early Warnings in Emergency Preparedness, Planning and ResponseRicardo Mena, OCHA

  2. A few fundamental questions: • Does the vulnerable population know the risks it faces and how to protect itself? • Is the political decision-making process to declare an alert and order an evacuation clearly defined? • Are community awareness and education programes on disaster preparedness and response in place? • Are alarm signals well know and recognised?

  3. A few fundamental questions • Are operating procedures established on how the warnings are supposed to be handled? • Do monitoring institutions have a 24 hour 7/7 duty system? Are they adequately linked to the Civil Protection Agency? • Have civil protection officials developed an emergency operations plan and has it been tested through yearly simulations?

  4. A few fundamental questions • Does the community understand the implications that early warnings could have on their socioeconomic development and how to deal with them? • Are the alarm signals fail proof? • Are the main hazards covered by early warning systems? If so, which? • Are evacuation routes marked?

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