Which aspects will you check for pre-disaster management in your school?
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To reduce this vulnerability particularly for schools, it is important to have a school Disaster Management Plan. Schools also have many resources and are community nodes.
Roles and responsibilities shall be clearly stated. An emergency procedure which staff shall be expected to remember. Emergency procedures shall still work if key personnel are unavailable on the day, or if a pre-planned route to an evacuation assembly area is cut off. The plan shall describe the decision-making process which will be adopted when an emergency occurs. While each emergency will be different, the decision-making process shall remain reasonably consistent.