Are your club and district prepared for disasters? When disaster strikes, Rotary clubs and districts are well-positioned to help reduce suffering and restore community infrastructure — if they are ready! Learn how your club and district can become prepared to assist with disaster recovery. Topics include an overview of what works, types of disasters, structure of disaster committees, and sources of templates to help you form effective disaster action plans.
2. TYPES OF DISASTERS
•Disasters come in all sizes and types
• Floods
• Tsunamis
• Landslides
• Fires of all types
• Tornados, Hurricanes and typhoons
• Volcanic activity of all types, Gas exhalations (CO2,SO2)
• Earthquakes, Sinkholes,
• Out of this world stuff
• War and other acts of man, Epidemics
17. Basic District Disaster Plan
•A District Disaster Task Force
•Establish Club Disaster Committees
•Assist Individual Rotarians Families With
Preparedness
•Linkage to the Disaster Network of Assistance
A Rotarian Action Group
19. REMEMBER
•“No battle plan survives first contact with the
enemy!”
• Von Clausewitz
•The best laid plans of mice and men…..
•“If anything can go wrong it will”
• Murphy
•“Murphy was an optimist” Engineers all over the world
21. THE RULE OF C’s
•CLEAR
•CONSISTANT
•CONSENSUAL
•COLLABORATIVE
•COOPERATIVE
•TO ACHIEVE A POSITIVE RESULT WHERE
MANY PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED REQUIRES:
•CONSTANT
•COMMUNICATION
22. THE RULE OF P’s
POOR PLANNING PRODUCES
PROBLEMATIC AND POOR
PROGRAMS
23. THE ALL IMPORTANT
COMMUNICATIONS
•OK we’ve had a disaster
•How are we going to communicate
•Cell phone
•Satellite phone
•Internet
•Amateur Radio (ROAR)
•CB’s
•Runners between EOC’s
•Smoke signals?
24. STRUCTURE OF WORK
THE HIGHEST PRIORITY NEEDS
AT THE START OF ANY EMERGENCY
Are
STRUCTURE AND INFORMATION
Who is doing what, why, and how!
And how is this coordinated
26. THE INDIVIDUAL ROTARIAN
•ARE YOU REDI?
•The fallacy of “Three days – three ways”
•Doctor heal thy self
•First do no harm
•Personal responsibility
•Family responsibility
•Your Rotary Family responsibility
•Your Community responsibility
27. PLAN BASICS
•WHAT IF’S:
•WHAT DO WE DO IF WE ARE SEPARATED?
•OUT OF AREA CONTACT
•RALLEY POINT(S)
•EMERGENCY TURN OFFS
•IF EVACUATING DO WE HAVE OUR MEDS
•WHERE ARE THE GO BAGS
•WHO DOES WHAT?
28. GO OR BUG OUT BAG
•BE PREPARED FOR 5 DAYS SURVIVAL
• WATER (Minimum of 2 ltrs/day/person)
• FOOD (Canned meat, fruit, vegetables, energy bars)
• FLASHLIGHT (Extra batteries)
• CELL PHONE (With car charger)
• WHITSLE (Good idea is to keep this on your key ring)
• WATERPROOF MATCHES & SMALL CANDLES
• SANITARY SUPPLIES INCLUDING GARBAGE BAGS
• FIRST AID KIT
• BASIC TOOLS (Don’t forget the can opener Swiss knife)
• SOMETHING FUN (Distraction, cards, game, wine?)
29. THE CLUB DISASTER
RELIEF COMMITTEE
•COMMITTEE STRUCTURE
•WHO?
•WHAT?
•WHERE?
•WHEN?
•WHY?
•WHAT IS ITS FUNCTION?
30. THE CLUB COMMITTEE
STRUCTURE
•WHO SHOULD BE ON THE COMMITTEE?
•THE CLUB DISASTER COORDINATOR
•LINKAGE TO OTHER COMMITTEES
•Contact / phone tree – what is it & why is it
important
•A disaster closet or warehouse?
•Capability and materials data base
31. THE DISTRICT DISASTER
COMMITTEE
•WHO SHOULD BE ON THE COMMITTEE
•DISTRICT DISASTER COORDINATOR
•DISTRICT DATA BASE
• Club/District disaster relief assets
• Records in digital, searchable format
• Common program with compatible structure
• A hard copy for when the power is gone
• Communications – within District
• Communications – up and down the line
32. ROTARIAN DISASTER RELIEF
NETWORK
(Disaster Network of Assistance – RAG)
In January 2015 the RI Board approved
a new Rotarian Action Group.
“Disaster Network of Assistance – RAG”