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UN STRATEGIES ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
WORLD CONFERENCE FOR DISASTER RISK Mitigation

REDUCTION  The lessening or minimizing of the adverse
Sendai Framework Monitoring
impacts of a hazardous event.
Hyogo Framework of Action
Global Risk Assessment Framework
Prevention
 Activities and measures to avoid existing and
OIEWG on Indicators and Terminology Related to
new disaster risks.
DRR
 The open-ended intergovernmental expert working
Resilience
(OIEWG) group on indicators and terminology
 The ability of a system, community or society
relating to disaster risk reduction (A/71/644) was
exposed to hazards to resist, absorb,
established by the UNGA in it’s A/RES/69/284 and
accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover
endorsed by the UNGA in A/RES/71/276.
from the effects of a hazard in a timely and
 The report presents recommended indicators to
efficient manner, including through the
monitor the global targets of the Sendai Framework,
preservation and restoration of its essential
the follow-up to and operationalization of the
basic structures and functions through risk
indicators and recommended terminology relating to
management.
disaster risk reduction.
Underlying Disaster Risk Drivers
Examples of Key Terminology Endorsed in
A/RES/71/276  Processes or conditions, often development-
related, that influence the level of disaster risk
Disaster by increasing levels of exposure and
 A serious disruption of the functioning of a vulnerability or reducing capacity.
community or a society at any scale due to
hazardous events interacting with conditions of Vulnerability
exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to  The conditions determined by physical, social,
one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental factors or
economic and environmental losses and processes which increase the susceptibility of an
impacts. individual, a community, assets or systems to
the impacts of hazards.
Disaster Risk
 The potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or
damaged assets which could occur to a system, The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
society or a community in a specific period of  A series of United Nations conferences focusing on
time, determined probabilistically as a function of disaster and climate risk management in the context
hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity. of sustainable development.
 Convened three times, with each edition to date
Exposure having been hosted by Japan:
 The situation of people, infrastructure, housing, o Yokohama in 1994
production capacities and other tangible human o Hyogo in 2005
assets located in hazard-prone areas. o Sendai in 2015
 As requested by the United Nations General
Hazard Assembly (UNGA), the United Nations Office for
 A process, phenomenon or human activity that Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) served as the
may cause loss of life, injury or other health coordinating body for the Second and Third UN
impacts, property damage, social and economic World Conference on Disaster Reduction in 2005
disruption or environmental degradation. and 2015.
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United Nations GOALS
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction 1. Increase public awareness of the risks that
natural, technological and environmental
hazards pose to modern societies.
2. Obtain commitment by public authorities to
reduce risks to people, their livelihoods, social
and economic infrastructure, and environmental
resources.
3. Engage public participation at all levels of
 Aims at increasing public awareness to understand implementation to create disaster-resistant
risk, vulnerability and disaster reduction globally. communities through increased partnership and
o Adopted during the July 1999 IDNDR expanded risk reduction networks at all levels.
Programme Forum, in Geneva, and ratified 4. Reduce the economic and social losses of
by the United Nations’ Economic and Social disasters as measured, for example, by Gross
Council (ECOSOC) and General Assembly Domestic Product.
during the second meeting of its
Commission on Sustainable Development. OBJECTIVES
More than 20 speakers at the CSD spoke in 1. Stimulate research and application, provide
favour of the Strategy and the proposed knowledge, convey experience, build capabilities
institutional arrangements in November and allocate necessary resources for reducing
1999, and a resolution to that effect was or preventing severe and recurrent impacts of
adopted. hazards, for those people most vulnerable.
2. Increase opportunities for organizations and
 Summary of the International Strategy (July 1999 multi-disciplinary relationships to foster more
IDNDR Programme forum): scientific and technical contributions to the
o While hazards are inevitable, and the public decision-making process in matters of
elimination of all risk is impossible, there are hazard, risk and disaster prevention.
many technical measures, traditional 3. Develop a more proactive interface between
practices, and public experience that can management of natural resources and risk
reduce the extent or severity of economic reduction practices.
and social disasters. Hazards and 4. Form a global community dedicated to making
emergency requirements are a part of living risk and disaster prevention a public value.
with nature, but human behavior can be 5. Link risk prevention and economic
changed. competitiveness issues to enhance opportunities
o In the words of the Secretary General, for greater economic partnerships.
“We must, above all, shift from a culture of 6. Complete comprehensives risk assessments
reaction to a culture of prevention. and integrate them within development plans.
Prevention is not only more humane than 7. Develop and apply risk reduction strategies and
cure; it is also much cheaper… Above all, let mitigation measures with supporting
us not forget that disaster prevention is a arrangements and resources for disaster
moral imperative, no less than reducing the prevention at all levels of activity.
risks of war”. 8. Identify and engage designated authorities,
professionals drawn from the widest possible
VISION range of expertise, and community leaders to
 To enable all communities to become resilient to develop increased partnership activities.
the effects of natural, technological and 9. Establish risk monitoring capabilities, and early
environmental hazards, reducing the compound warning systems as integrated processes, with
risks they pose to social and economic particular attention being given to emerging
vulnerabilities within modern societies. hazards with global implications such as those
 To proceed from protection against hazards to related to climate variation and change, at all
the management of risk through the integration levels of responsibility.
of risk prevention into sustainable development. 10. Develop sustained programs of public
information and institutionalized educational
components pertaining to hazards and their

effects, risk management practices and disaster and their consequences to enable more
prevention activities, for all ages. consistent comparisons.
11. Establish internationally and professionally  Undertake periodic reviews of accomplishments
agreed standards / methodologies for the in hazard, risk and disaster reduction efforts at
analysis and expression of the souci-economic all levels of engagement and responsibility.
impacts of disasters on societies.  Study the feasibility of specific alternative
12. Seek innovative funding mechanisms dedicated funding and resource allocation modalities that
to sustained risk and disaster prevention can ensure continued commitment to sustained
activities. risk and disaster prevention strategies
IMPLEMENTATION UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

 Conduct a national audit or assessment process
of existing functions necessary for a
comprehensive and integrated national strategy
of hazard, risk and disaster prevention,
projected over 5-10 and 20 year time periods.
 Conduct dynamic risk analysis with specific
consideration of demographics, urban growth,  (formerly UNISDR) is part of the United Nations
and the interaction or compound relationships Secretariat and it supports the implementation &
between natural, technological and review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
environmental factors. Reduction adopted by the Third UN World
 Build, or where existing, strengthen Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on 18 March
regional/sub-regional, national and international 2015 in Sendai, Japan. The Sendai Framework is a
approaches, and collaborative organizational 15-year voluntary people-centred approach to
arrangements that can increase hazard, risk and disaster risk reduction, succeeding the 2005-2015
disaster prevention capabilities and activities. framework.
 Establish coordination mechanisms for greater  UNDRR’s vision is anchored on the four priorities for
coherence and improved effectiveness of action set out in the Sendai Framework.
combined hazard, risk and disaster prevention  UNDRR coordinates international efforts in Disaster
strategies at all levels of responsibility. Risk Reduction (DRR) and it reports on the
 Promote and encourage know-how transfer implementation of the Sendai Framework for
through partnership and among countries with Disaster Risk Reduction. It convenes the biennial
particular attention given in the transfer of Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction.
experience amongst those countries most  1 May 2019, the UNDrR officially changed its
exposed to risks. acronym to UNDRR (from UNISDR) to better reflect
 Establish national, regional/sub-regional, and its name. The former acronym had not been
global information exchanges, facilities, or changed since the office was called the International
websites dedicated to hazard, risk and disaster Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction
prevention, linked by agreed communication
standards and protocols to facilitate interchange. Post-Disaster : Disaster Management and Post-
 Link efforts of hazard, risk and disaster disaster Stage: Response & Recovery
prevention more closely with the Agenda 21 Linking to the Goals of Sustainable Development
implementation process for enhanced synergy
with environmental and sustainable 1994 First World Conference on Natural Disasters in
development issues. Yokohama
 Focus multi-year risk reduction strategies on  The First World Conference on Natural Disasters
urban concentration and mega-city (Yokohama, Japan - May 23 to 27, 1994)
environments.  adopted the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World:
 Institute comprehensive application of land-use Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention,
planning and programmes in hazard prone- Preparedness and Mitigation and its Plan of Action,
environments. endorsed by the UNGA in 1994.
 Develop and apply standard forms of statistical  Main outcome of the mid-term review of the
recording of risk factors, disaster occurrences International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction

(IDNDR) and established 10 principles for its national assets from the impact of natural
strategy, a plan of action and a follow-up. disasters. The international community should
demonstrate strong political determination
10 Principles of theYokohama Strategy for a Safer required to mobilize adequate and make efficient
World use of existing resources, including financial,
1. Risk assessment is a required step for the scientific and technological means, in the field of
adoption of adequate and successful disaster natural disaster reduction, bearing in mind the
reduction policies and measures. needs of the developing countries, particularly
the least developed countries.
2. Disaster prevention and preparedness are of
primary importance in reducing the need for
disaster relief. 2005 Second World Conference on Disaster
Reduction in Kobe
3. Disaster prevention and preparedness should be  The Second World Conference on Disaster
considered integral aspects of development Reduction conference was held in Kobe, Japan from
policy and planning at national, regional, 18 to 22 January 2005. This conference took on
bilateral, multilateral and international levels. particular poignancy, as it came almost 10 years to
the day after the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe
4. The development and strengthening of and less than a month after the 2004 Indian Ocean
capacities to prevent, reduce and mitigate tsunami. Japan's long history of severe natural
disasters is a top priority area to be addressed disasters, prominence in international humanitarian
during the Decade so as to provide a strong aid and development and its scientific achievements
basis for follow-up activities to the Decade. in monitoring dangerous natural phenomena also
made it a suitable conference venue.
5. Early warnings of impending disasters and their  The upcoming conference had not garnered much
effective dissemination using attention, but due to the 26 December, Indian Ocean
telecommunications, including broadcast tsunami, the attendance grew dramatically and the
services, are key factors to successful disaster international media focused on the event. Japan's
prevention and preparedness. Emperor Akihito opened the conference and
welcomed 4,000 participants from around the world.
6. Preventive measures are most effective when  The World Conference adopted plans to put in place
they involve participation at all levels, from the an International Early Warning Programme (IEWP),
local community through the national which had first been proposed at the Second
government to the regional and international International Conference on Early Warning in 2003
level. in Bonn, Germany.
 The goal of the World Conference was to find ways
7. Vulnerability can be reduced by the application to reduce the toll of disasters through preparation,
of proper design and patterns of development and ultimately to reduce human casualties. Due to
focused on target groups, by appropriate the proximity to the devastating Indian Ocean
education and training of the whole community. tsunami, developing a global tsunami warning
system was high on the agenda.
8. The international community accepts the need to
share the necessary technology to prevent, OTHER TOPICS INCLUDED:
reduce and mitigate disaster; this should be
 pledges to reduce disaster damage
made freely available and in a timely manner as
 healthcare after disaster
an integral part of technical cooperation.
 early warning systems
 safe building standards
9. Environmental protection as a component of
 agree upon cost-effective preventative
sustainable development consistent with poverty
countermeasures
alleviation is imperative in the prevention and
 a global database on relief and reconstruction
mitigation of natural disasters.
and a centre on water hazards
10. Each country bears the primary responsibility for

protecting its people, infrastructure, and other

HYOGO FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION 2005-2015  There is now international acknowledgement that
Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities efforts to reduce disaster risks must be
to Disasters systematically integrated into policies, plans and
programmes for sustainable development and
I. Preamble poverty reduction, and supported through bilateral,
 The World Conference on Disaster Reduction was regional and international cooperation, including
held from 18 to 22 January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, partnerships.
Japan, and adopted the present Framework for  Sustainable development, poverty reduction,
Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations good governance and disaster risk reduction
and Communities to Disasters (here after referred to are mutually supportive objectives, and in
as the “Framework for Action”). The Conference order to meet the challenges ahead,
provided a unique opportunity to promote a strategic accelerated efforts must be made to build the
and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities1 necessary capacities at the community and
and risks to hazards. It underscored the need for, national levels to manage and reduce risk.
and identified ways of, building the resilience of  Such an approach is to be recognized as an
nations and communities to disasters. important element for the achievement of
internationally agreed development goals,
CHALLENGES POSED BY DISASTERS including those contained in the Millennium
Declaration.
 Disaster loss is on the rise with grave consequences
 The importance of promoting disaster risk reduction
for the survival, dignity and livelihood of individuals,
efforts on the international and regional levels as
particularly the poor, and hard-won development
well as the national and local levels has been
gains. Disaster risk is increasingly of global concern
recognized in the past few years in a number of key
and its impact and actions in one region can have an
multilateral frameworks and declarations.
impact on risks in another, and vice versa.
 In the past two decades, on average more
THE YOKOHAMA STRATEGY:
than 200 million people have been affected
every year by disasters. lessons learned and gaps identified
 This, compounded by increasing
vulnerabilities related to changing  The Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World:
demographic, technological and socio- Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention,
economic conditions, unplanned urbanization, Preparedness and Mitigation and its Plan of Action
development within high-risk zones, under- (“Yokohama Strategy”), adopted in 1994, provides
development, environmental degradation, landmark guidance on reducing disaster risk and the
climate variability, climate change, geological impacts of disasters.
hazards, competition for scarce resources, The review of progress made in implementing the
and the impact of epidemics such as Yokohama Strategy identifies major challenges for
HIV/AIDS, points to a future where disasters the coming years in ensuring more systematic action
could increasingly threaten the world’s to address disaster risks in the context of
economy, and its population and the sustainable development and in building resilience
sustainable development of developing through enhanced national and local capabilities to
countries. manage and reduce risk.
 Disaster risk arises when hazards interact with  The review stresses the importance of disaster risk
physical, social, economic and environmental reduction being underpinned by a more pro-active
vulnerabilities. approach to informing, motivating and involving
 Events of hydrometeorological origin people in all aspects of disaster risk reduction in
constitute the large majority of disasters. their own local communities. It also highlights the
Despite the growing understanding and scarcity of resources allocated specifically from
acceptance of the importance of disaster risk development budgets for the realization of risk
reduction and increased disaster response reduction objectives, either at the national or the
capacities, disasters and in particular the regional level or through international cooperation
management and reduction of risk continue to and financial mechanisms, while noting the
pose a global challenge. significant potential to better exploit existing
resources and established practices for more
effective disaster risk reduction.
 Specific gaps and challenges are identified in the  The realization of this outcome will require the
following five main areas: full commitment and involvement of all actors
a) Governance: organizational, legal and policy concerned, including governments, regional and
frameworks; international organizations, civil society including
b) Risk identification, assessment, monitoring volunteers, the private sector and the scientific
and early warning; community.
c) Knowledge management and education;
d) Reducing underlying risk factors; B. Strategic Goals, the Conference resolved to adopt
e) Preparedness for effective response and a) The more effective integration of disaster risk
recovery. considerations into sustainable development
 These are the key areas for developing a relevant policies, planning and programming at all levels,
framework for action for the decade 2005–2015. with a special emphasis on disaster prevention,
mitigation, preparedness and vulnerability
II. World Conference on Disaster Reduction: reduction;
Objectives, expected outcome and strategic goals b) The development and strengthening of
institutions, mechanisms and capacities at all
A. Objectives convened by the General Assembly levels, in particular at the community level, that
a) To conclude and report on the review of the can systematically contribute to building
Yokohama Strategy and its Plan of Action, with resilience to hazards;
a view to updating the guiding framework on c) The systematic incorporation of risk reduction
disaster reduction for the twenty-first century; approaches into the design and implementation
b) To identify specific activities aimed at ensuring of emergency preparedness, response and
the implementation of relevant provisions of the recovery programmes in the reconstruction of
Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the affected communities.
World Summit on Sustainable Development on
vulnerability, risk assessment and disaster How do we respond, recover and rebuild to disaster in
management; order to decrease risk and increase our resiliency in
c) To share good practices and lessons learned to transforming our society to one that is sustainable in the
further disaster reduction within the context of long-term?
attaining sustainable development, and to
identify gaps and challenges; Note: Key factors influencing resilience and
d) To increase awareness of the importance of decreasing disaster risk
disaster reduction policies, thereby facilitating
and promoting the implementation of those
policies;
e) To increase the reliability and availability of
appropriate disaster-related information to the
public and disaster management agencies in all
regions, as set out in relevant provisions of the
Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
B. Expected Outcomes
 Taking these objectives into account, and
drawing on the conclusions of the review of the
Yokohama Strategy, States and other actors
participating at the World Conference on
Disaster Reduction (hereinafter referred to as
“the Conference”) resolve to pursue the
following expected outcome for the next 10
years:
 The substantial reduction of disaster
losses, in lives and in the social,
economic and environmental assets of
communities and countries.
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Source: Turnbull et al., 2013
 Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and
enhance early warning;
 Use knowledge, innovation and education to

 Adopted by 168 Governments at the World build a culture of safety and resilience at all
Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Kobe, levels;
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 18-22 January 2005
 Reduce underlying risk factors;
The HFA identified five separate priorities for action
 Ensure that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a  Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective
national and local priority with a strong response at all levels.
institutional basis for implementation;
The Disaster Risk Management Model for SD from CGSS

What we DO NOT want DRM & Sustainable Development
 Actions taken in the aftermath of a disaster to:
o Reconstruct same as before
Sustainability
o Rebuilding the pre-existing vulnerabilities
 Systems science:
o Community in same state as before the
o “A set of conditions and trends in a given
disaster
system that can continue indefinitely.”
 Dictionary:
o “The ability to endure”
“Sustainable DEVELOPMENT”
means …
 “A managed process of continuous innovation and
systemic changein the direction of sustainability.”
o i.e. Creating systems that can endure (i.e.
What WE WANT resilient, transformative, flourishing)
SUSTAINABILITY IS…
 a set of conditions and trends in a given system
that can continue indefinitely.
Principles Disaster Recovery and Rehabilitation
Recovery and rehabilitation is most effective:

 when communities and stakeholders recognize
that it is a long-term process;
 when activities are integrated with risk
management and sustainable development;
 when conducted with the participation of all Sustainability is not about the Earth.
affected stakeholders; The Earth is Fine.
 when services are provided in a timely, fair and
flexible manner. Sustainability is about the Survival of Humanity (the
human species) going forward- our children’s and their
children’s future
Disaster Response & Recovery Areas
This is what is at risk!
Governance, Leadership, Infrastructure
Decision-making
Health & sanitation Waste management Different observers highlight different aspects—
Mental health Mortality management economics, corporations, climate change,
Public safely transportation pandemics, communication technology, terrorism,
Communications Business vitality civil society, governance, culture, and so on—all
Emergency medical care Education & training introduced by the modifier “global”. Indeed, each is
Food security Children welfare a critical issue in its own right. But rather than
(procurement, distribution) independent, these factors or variables are separate
expressions of a larger process, the formation of a
Housing Public services & utiliies
unitary global system.
Environmental Infrastructure
management

4 Basic System Conditions for Sustainability as the inability to continue production for some time
Nature: or permanently due to loss of assets (Mechler, 2004).
 Living within the Earth’s physical and biological
limits; UN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Economy;
 Maintaining a vital, prosperous economy;
Society:
 Supporting social stability, equity, and
development;
Human Wellbeing:
 Making individual opportunity, fulfillment, and Official Negotiations
happiness possible.  3rd Preparatory Committee Meeting (13-15
June) to agree the last version of the draft
SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES: AN ORGANIZATION, difficulty of reaching a consensus the
COMMUNITY, OR SOCIETY WILL BE SUSTAINABLE PrepCom invited Brazil to conduct
IF IT… “preconference informal consultations in its
1. understands its own systems, and the systems capacity as host country”.
in which it is embedded;  UN SUMMIT -HEADS OF STATE (20/22 June):
2. understands and accounts for limits and system Plenary and adoption of the outcome document
dynamics;
3. looks for and responds to long-term systemic
trends that affect its ability to achieve its goals;
4. changes internally to meet and take advantage
of external conditions and trends;
5. is resilient enough to withstand short-term
shocks;
6. does not undermine the conditions of its own
existence;
Hazard, exposure and vulnerability drive direct risk

in Disaster Risk Management Analysis
Figure shows the common understanding that

(direct) risk is a function of hazard, exposure and
vulnerability
Direct risk is the likelihood of direct losses, which
are the immediate impact of the disaster; such as
physical damage caused by flood waters.
Indirect risk relates to indirect losses, which are the
consequences which flow from the direct loss; such

Sustainable Development Dialogues  Guidance on green economy policies:
 Reference to Rio Principles and past
action plans
 national sovereignty over natural
resources;
 participation by all relevant stakeholders;
 sustained and inclusive growth;
Sustainable Consumption and
Production;
 international cooperation on finance;
 indigenous peoples and non-market
approaches;
 poverty eradication (social protection
floors).
1.4.7. “The future we want”
B. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)

Outcomes  Still firmly committed to MDGs but also
1. “The future we want” Outcome Document recognize utility of a set of SDGs (based on
2. 700 Voluntary Commitments Agenda 21 and the JPOI, Rio Principles);
 SDGs focused on priority areas selected on the
“THE FUTURE WE WANT” OUTCOME DOCUMENT Outcome Document;
 53 pages, 283 paragraphs;  established an intergovernmental process on
 6 sections: SDGs  working group will be constituted, to
I. Our common vision; submit a proposal for SDGs to the UNGA;
II. Renewing political commitment;  need to assess targets and indicators for
III. Green economy in the context of sustainable SDGs.
development and poverty eradication;
IV. Institutional framework for sustainable 1.4.8. “The future we want” Outcome Document
development;
V. Framework for action and follow-up VI. MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION
VI. Means of implementation. A. FINANCE: need for significant mobilization of
resources for SD  established an
1.4.2. “The future we want” Outcome Document intergovernmental process to propose a SD
financing strategy.
SECTION I: our common vision
 Recognizing that poverty eradication, changing B. TECHNOLOGY: importance of access by all
unsustainable and promoting sustainable countries to environmentally sound techn.
patterns of consumption and production, and (included technology trasfer to developing
protecting and managing the natural resource countries)
base of economic and social development are
the overarching objectives of and essential C. CAPACITY BUILDING: need for enhanced
requirements for sustainable development capacity building for SD  UN agencies invited
to share knowledge and support cooperation
1.4.4. “The future we want” Outcome Document
D. TRADE: international trade as engine for SD 
SECTION III: Green economy need of rule-based, open, trading system
 There are “different approaches” and tools
available to achieve SD  Green economy is
one of the important tools,

Each of the 17 Goals and 169 Targets represent our Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable
attempt to maintain or achieve certain system conditions management of water and sanitation for all
that we think are required for sustainability.  By 2020 protect and restore water-related
ecosystems, including mountains, forests,
wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote

inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster
innovation
 9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and
resilient infrastructure, including regional and
trans-border infrastructure, to support economic
development and human well-being, with a
focus on affordable and equitable access for all
 9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient
infrastructure development in developing
Disaster risk reduction references in goals and countries through enhanced financial,
targets technological and technical support to African
countries, LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
 1.5 By 2030 build the resilience of the poor and Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements
those in vulnerable situations, and reduce their inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
exposure and vulnerability to climate-related  11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard
extreme events and other economic, social and the world’s cultural and natural heritage
environmental shocks and disasters  11.5 By 2030 significantly reduce the number of
deaths and the number of affected people and
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and decrease by% the economic losses relative to
improved nutrition, and promote sustainable GDP caused by disasters, including water-
agriculture related disasters, with the focus on protecting
 By 2030 ensure sustainable food production the poor and people in vulnerable situations
systems and implement resilient agricultural  11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita
practices that increase productivity and environmental impact of cities, including by
production, that help maintain ecosystems, that paying special attention to air quality, municipal
strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate and other waste management
change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and  11.b By 2020, increase by x% the number of
other disasters, and that progressively improve cities and human settlements adopting and
land and soil quality implementing integrated policies and plans
towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being and adaptation to climate change, resilience to
for all at all ages disasters, develop and implement in line with the
 3.d Strengthen the capacity of all countries, forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster
particularly developing countries, for early risk management at all levels
warning, risk reduction, and management of  11.c Support least developed countries,
national and global health risks including through financial and technical
assistance, for sustainable and resilient
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality buildings utilizing local materials
education and promote life-long learning
opportunities for all Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate
 4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that change and its impacts*
are child, disability and gender sensitive and  13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive
provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective capacity to climate related hazards and natural
learning environments for all disasters in all countries
 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into
national policies, strategies, and planning
 13.3 Improve education, awareness raising and SENDAI FRAMEWORK MONITORING: AN
human and institutional capacity on climate OVERVIEW
change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction,  Global Sendai Framework Targets
and early warning  Linkage of Sendai Framework and SDG
indicator systems
Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans,  Custom and Regional Targets and Indicators
seas and marine resources for sustainable
development PRIORITY AREAS
 14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect
1. Understanding disaster risk;
marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid
2. Strengthening disaster risk governance to
significant adverse impacts, including by
manage disaster risk;
strengthening their resilience, and take action for
3. Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience;
their restoration, to achieve healthy and
4. Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective
productive oceans
response, and to "Building Back Better" in
recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable
use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage
Substantially reduce global
forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse Global Target A:
disaster mortality by 2030
land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Substantially reduce the number
 15.1 By 2020 ensure conservation, restoration
Global Target B: of affected people globally by
and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland
2030
freshwater ecosystems and their services, in
particular forests, wetlands, mountains and Reduce direct disaster economic
Global Target C:
drylands, in line with obligations under loss in relation to global GDP
international agreements Substantially reduce disaster
 15.3 By 2020, combat desertification, and Global Target D: damage to critical infrastructure
restore degraded land and soil, including land and disruption of basic services
affected by desertification, drought and floods, Substantially increase the number
and strive to achieve a land-degradation neutral of countries with national and
Global Target E
world local disaster risk reduction
strategies by 2020
Substantially enhance
Global Target F: international cooperation to
developing countries
Substantially increase the
availability of and access to multi-
hazard early warning systems and
Global Target G:
disaster risk information and
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction assessments to the people by
2015–2030 2030
 The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
(2015–2030) is an international document that was Sendai Framework
adopted by the United Nations (UN) member states a) Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by
between 14 and 18 March 2015 at the World 2030, aiming to lower the average per 100,000
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in global mortality rate in the decade 2020–2030
Sendai, Japan, and endorsed by the UNGA in June compared to the period 2005– 2015;
2015. It is the successor agreement to the Hyogo b) Substantially reduce the number of affected
Framework for Action (2005–2015), which had been people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the
the most encompassing international accord to date average global figure per 100,000 in the decade
on disaster risk reduction. 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015;
c) Reduce direct disaster economic loss in relation
to global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030;

d) Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical
infrastructure and disruption of basic services,
among them health and educational facilities,
including through developing their resilience by
2030;
e) Substantially increase the number of countries
with national and local disaster risk reduction
strategies by 2020;
f) Substantially enhance international cooperation
to developing countries through adequate and
sustainable support to complement their national
actions for implementation of the present
Framework by 2030;
g) Substantially increase the availability of and
access to multi-hazard early warning systems
and disaster risk information and assessments
to people by 2030.
Sendai Framework for DRR 2015–2030 Global Goals
SEVEN TARGETS TO ACHIEVE BY 2030
SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCE
a. Global disaster mortality
b. Number of affected people
c. Economic loss in relation to GDP
d. Damage to critical infrastructure and services
disruption
SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE
e. Number of countries with national and local DRR
strategies by 2020
f. International cooperation to developing countries
g. Availability and access to early warning systems
and DRR information
Development
 The Sendai document emerged from three years
of talks, assisted by the United Nations
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction,
during which UN member states, NGOs, and
other stakeholders made calls for an improved
version of the existing Hyogo Framework, with a
set of common standards, a comprehensive
framework with achievable targets, and a
legally-based instrument for disaster risk
reduction.

Hazard Risk Vulnerability Assessment (HRVA)
Objective  The following factors are often considered:

 Discuss methods of conducting a hazard  Known risk
vulnerability analysis (HVA)  Historical data
 Identify how the HVA is applicable to  Manufacturer or vendor statistics
preparedness and evacuation
 Practice effective training techniques in Historical Data
conducting a HVA  Natural events
 Hazardous material releases
The HVA and the Relationship to Evacuation  Technological accidents
 The HVA is a tool used to evaluate the potential  Infrastructure problems
risks for a facility
 It is not an evaluation of the potential for Risk Assessment
evacuation  The risk of an event is assessed based on:
 However, risks identified in the process may  Threat to life and/or health
focus the organization toward the need to  Disruption of services
mitigate and prepare for circumstances that  Damage for failure possibilities
could include evacuation  Loss of community trust
 Financial impact and legal issues
THE PURPOSE OF HVA
Preparedness
 The purpose is a prioritization process that will
 Preparedness of the organization’s ability to
 result in a risk assessment for “all hazards”
manage risks, can include items such as:
The tool includes consideration of multiple
 Status of current plans
factors
 Training
 The focus is on organization planning and
 Insurance
resources and /or the determine that no action
 Back up systems
may be required. This is an organization
 Community resources
decision
Models
Is This Required?
 There are a number of models for an HVA.
 The Joint Commission, previously called the
 Two well known models are from
Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare
 American Society of Healthcare
Organizations (JCAHO), requests an HVA for
 Engineering (ASHE)
organizations to determine the focus of their
Kaiser Foundation
emergency planning
 Both models can be adjusted to fit the
 There is no specific tool nor method defined
organization
 Security organizations and other vendors also
HVA Categories for Evaluation market HVA tools
 There are categories considered in a formal
process of assessing an HVA
Medical Center HVA Model
 Most HVA tools include an assessment of the
following factors:
❒ ASHE Model 2001
o Probability that an event will occur
 Human Events
o The risk of disruption to the organization
associated with the event scored as high,  Natural Events
moderate or low or a similar description.  Technological Events
o The level of preparedness
❒ Kaiser Foundation Model 2001
 Human Events
PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE
 Natural Events
 The probability may be based on statistics and  Technological Events
objective information but also may be intuitive  Hazmat Events
and highly subjective.

Natural Events organization should focus on issues that could
 Risks common to the area or geography of the impact the need to evacuate or to mitigate the
region, for example: storms, earthquakes, floods, risk. Examples:
and tornadoes, and other natural causes of  Routes
damage  Locations
 The impact may be able to be mitigated or may  Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
result in a partial or complete evacuation  Communication to employees with
special needs
Mitigation Plans for Regions  Special situations - management of
 Other models use sophisticated software to family on site
determine the hazards by cities, counties or
regional areas WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
 Are used for the development of mitigation plans  HVA tools, used to prioritize specific and overall
for multi-jurisdictions relative risks, are based on mathematical
formulas that are either embedded in the
document or managed manually
 The factors considered in the assessment
includes the assumption that the risk occurs at
the worst possible time and with a full patient
census
SUMMARY: WHAT IS THE GREATEST RISK?

 The HVA process helps an organization
prioritize in the order of criticality
 The efforts to decrease the consequences of a
possible event can be focused upon. This
includes evacuation.
Examples of HVA Tools

o American Society for Healthcare Engineering of
the American Hospital Association
o Kaiser Permanente’s interactive HVA tool
available at:
o Emergency Management Program Guidebook
Published by VHA Center for Engineering &
Occupational Safety and Health, St. Louis, MO
vaww.ceosh.med.va.gov
o For review of an HVA sample go to: Click HVA
under index link
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO WORKER WELL-
BEING?
 Preparedness efforts, plans and resources are
directly related to the organization’s HVA HRVA － Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
 Engineering controls may occur as a result of  provides the foundation within a continuous
HVA thus reducing risk for the work force emergency planning cycle needed to maintain an
 Safety factors are considered effective emergency plan.
 Process promotes understanding of current  It comes from evolving national and international
resources that may not have been known standards in the field of emergency management.
beyond the “expert”
Evacuation Implications
 When a risk is identified in the HVA that would
potentially result in an evacuation, the

HRVA Step #1
 Select the emergency events from Lists A and B that
you feel could possibly have application for your
emergency plan. Only omit those you’re certain don’t
have application (e.g., a tsunami would not apply if
you are not near an ocean).
 HRVA may seem complicated, but in practice, it

simply involves any person or group following the
six-step procedure.
HRVA Step #2
 Assess the “probability of occurrence” (based on a
projected timeline and available historical data and
current expertise), which will result in a rating of
Frequent, Probable, Occasional, Remote or
Improbable.

HRVA Step #3 Recovery components of emergency management.
 Determine the “probable severity of damage” if the
emergency took place, which will result in a rating of
Catastrophic, Critical, Marginal or Negligible.
HRVA
 This emergency planning tool is a good visionary
approach, but is not without its faults. Users can fall
HRVA Step #4
victim to subjectivity as they attempt to assess
 Determine the “vulnerability level” by finding the
vulnerabilities objectively. Success depends greatly
combination of ratings you gave in Steps 2 and 3,
on the effort and open-mindedness of those who
and noting the vulnerability of Low, Medium or High.
choose to use it. It can be used effectively to
determine reasonable allocation of resources, and
as a continuous process to ensure that necessary
actions are being taken to maintain an effective
emergency plan.
 An HRVA can also be used for various non-
emergency events (e.g., wedding, vacation, reunion)
to help plan for and carry out planning activities.
HRVA Step #5
 Prioritize the vulnerability levels from highest to
lowest (If you don’t have any High vulnerability
events, then start your list with the Medium and Low
events).
HRVA Step #6
 In sequential order (1st, 2nd, 3rd), transfer the list
from Step 5 so that resources and priority of actions
can be identified, allocated, and tracked in
accordance with the proactive: Prevention/Mitigation,
Preparedness, and the reactive: Response and

P.A.C.E. PLAN
P. A. C. E. Plan P. A. C. E. Example
 PACE is a methodology developed by the US Primary: Sending short codes or texts from GPS
Military to help build resilient communication plans tracking devices
for organizations that need to ensure Alternate: Use of digital cellular communication
communications regardless of the situation. PACE is with use of data to using landlines if
an acronym for Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and available.
Emergency. Contingency: Use of voice calls when the data
network is down.
P Primary Emergency: Use of Hi Frequency (HF) radios which
A Alternate is not reliant on any cellular network.
C Contingency
E Emergency
The PACE Plan System
PRIMARY PLAN  The PACE plan system is expressed as a list
 “main, prime, chief importance, principal” (Merriam- showing the order of communication precedence;
Webster) primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency.
 Primary: The main form of communication.  The plan designates the order in which
 The best and intended method of communicatn organizations plan to move through available
between parties. communications systems until contact can be
established..
ALTERNATE PLAN  In the general plan, it is important to understand the
order in which you would plan to use various
 “every other, be used instead, substitute” (Merriam-
communication systems and the agreed-upon
Webster)
method between groups.
 Alternate: If the primary fails, this is your secondary
form of communication.
METHODOLOGY
 Common but less-optimal method of but is capable
of accomplishing the task. Often monitored  The method requires the author to determine the
concurrently with primary means. different parties that need to communicate and
then determine, if possible, the best four forms of
communication between each of those parties.
CONTINGENCY PLAN
 PACE also designates the order in which an
 “may but is not certain or possible to occur,
element will move through available
something liable to happen or eventual as an
communications systems until contact can be
adjunct or result of something else” (Merriam-
established with the desired distant element(s).
Webster)
 Ideally, each method will be completely separate
 Contingency: Tertiary method of communication.
and independent of the other systems of
 Method will not be as fast/ easy/ inexpensive/
communication. For each method, the receiver
convenient as the first two methods but is capable of
must first sense which one the sender is using and
accomplishing the task. Often (but undesirably) the
then respond.
receiver rarely monitors this method.
 Once an organization has agreed upon the
general plan, detailed operational planning must
EMERGENCY PLAN follow. In the detailed plan, you can then designate
 ”unforseen cicumstance that need immediate action, the radio channel or talk group to be used if using
urgenct need” (Merriam-Webster) radios, the satellite phone numbers to be called.
 Emergency: If all else fails, this is the worst case When you know what systems will be used the
option. It is usually ugly, but will get a message PACE Plan ensures everyone agrees on which
across. systems to monitor and in the correct order as the
 method of last resort and typically has significant higher level of communications fail.
Delays, costs, and/or impacts. Often only monitored  Emergency Management and Communications
when the other means fail. Managers should coordinate the development of
PACE plans for the many different functions and

departments within your organization to ensure
that Incident Command and clinical staff can
maintain critical communication links. Plans must
reflect the training, equipment status, and true
capabilities of the organization. If a clinical team
has a disaster plan but team members are
untrained, lack the proper equipment or contact
information they will not be effective in an
emergency.
 Departmental PACE plans should be coordinated
with Emergency Management and the
Communications Team. It is critical that individual
departments nest their plan within the larger
Emergency Plan and with the coordination of the
organization’s communications team to ensure
that the resources are in place to execute the plan
and reduce unnecessary duplication of assets.
CONCLUSION
 Developing comprehensive PACE plans will not
ensure perfect communications in a disaster, but
helps to clear some of the fog and friction found in
every emergency situation.
 The most important part of the PACE plan is the
act of planning itself.
 P.A.C.E. planning is about mitigating risk by
developing 3 back up plans. If the Primary plan
doesn’t work, go to the Alternate. If the Alternate
doesn’t work, do the Contingency Plan. If that fails,
then accomplish you mission with the Emergency
plan. P.A.C.E. Planning isn’t rocket science, but it
is a simple and effective tool you can use to
ensure that you accomplish your mission and get
the job done.

EMERGENCY DRILLS
INTRODUCTION potential to occur in your community. For

 Emergency drills are an important part of workplace example, if you live in an area that is susceptible
safety. By practising emergency procedures, you to wildfires, choose a wildfire-related scenario
can ensure that your employees know what to do in for your drill. If you live in a coastal community,
the event of a real emergency. This topic will discuss choose a hurricane-related scenario.
the importance of workplace emergency drills and 2. Make sure the scenario is achievable. The goal
exercises and provide tips for planning and of a mock emergency drill is to test your
conducting a successful drill or exercise. organization’s readiness, not to see how well it
can respond to an impossible situation. Choose
a challenging but achievable scenario, and
Emergency Drill
ensure all participants understand the
 An emergency drill is a procedure carried out to
parameters of the drill.
practice how a building or organization would
3. Involve as many people as possible. A mock
respond to an unexpected event. Emergency drills
emergency drill is an opportunity to test your
are designed to test the response of individuals and
organization’s response plan, but it’s also an
groups to a simulated crisis, such as a fire, severe
opportunity to educate and engage your
weather event, or terrorist attack. The goal of an
community. Invite first responders, local officials,
emergency drill is to ensure that everyone knows
media, and the general public to participate in
what to do in the event of an actual emergency.
the drill. The more people you involve, the more
 Emergency drills should be conducted regularly, and
realistic the experience will be.
participants should be given clear instructions on
4. Debrief after the drill. Once the drill is over, take
what to do in the event of an emergency. The drill
some time to debrief all of the participants.
should be designed to test the response of
Discuss what went well and what could be
individuals and groups to a simulated crisis, such as
improved upon. Use the feedback to revise your
a fire, severe weather event, or terrorist attack. The
organization’s emergency response plan.
goal of an emergency drill is to ensure that everyone
knows what to do in the event of an actual
emergency. Emergency Drills
 Evacuation and shelter-in-place drills are
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE? scheduled throughout the year to ensure the
readiness of the campus community in
 Emergency drills are important because they
responding to any type of crisis that requires
help employees to be prepared for a real
building occupants to evacuate a building or to
emergency. In the event of an actual emergency,
seek protective shelter inside of a building.
it is important that employees know what to do
Evacuation and sheltering-in-place are the
and where to go. By practising emergency
inverse of one another. You evacuate a building
procedures in a drill, employees can become
when the conditions inside the building present a
familiar with the steps they need to take to stay
hazard to human life, health or safety. If the
safe.
conditions outside of a building presented a
hazard to human life, health or safety, one would
DESIGNING AN EMERGENCY DRILL
reverse the evacuation steps and shelter inside
 A well-designed mock emergency drill can help a building.
your organization assess its readiness and
identify areas that need improvement. But not all 1. Emergency Evacuation drills include alarm
mock drills are created equal. To be effective, a activation to ensure fire protection and reliability,
mock drill should be based on a realistic along with an orderly, disciplined evacuation,
scenario that has the potential to occur in your followed by a thorough inspection of the building to
community. immediately rectify any code related issues. Finally,
an on-site discussion is held with students, staff and
How to Conduct a Successful E-Drill? faculty to evaluate and improve, when necessary,
1. Choose a scenario that is relevant to your the performance and efficacy of these drills.
community. A mock emergency drill should be
based on a realistic scenario that has the

2. Shelter-in-place drills are a tactical response to a  An effective workplace emergency drill should be
possible chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or based on a well-developed plan that considers your
natural disaster. They are designed to provide a workplace’s specific needs. It should be designed to
place of refuge for people and to give them a level of test your emergency procedures’ effectiveness and
physical, emotional and mental comfort. During a allow employees to practice their roles in an
shelter-in-place drill, building occupants are directed emergency situation.
to pre-designated “shelter areas” within a building.  When developing your workplace emergency drill
plan, there are several factors that you need to
Types of Emergency Drills consider:
 Many types of emergency drills can be o The type of emergencies that could occur in
conducted in the workplace. Some of the most your workplace
common include fire drills, earthquake drills, and o The location of your workplace
tornado drills. It is important for employers to o The number of employees in your workplace
choose the right type of drill for their workplace o The ability of your employees to evacuate
based on the hazards present. the premises safely
o The availability of emergency services
❒ Fire drills  When developing your workplace emergency drill
 are one of the most common types of plan, it is important to keep the following points in
emergency drills conducted in the mind:
workplace. They are designed to ensure o All employees should clearly state and
that everyone in the building knows what understand the purpose of the drill.
to do in the event of a fire. The drill o The drill should be conducted at a time
should include evacuating the building, when employees are not expecting it.
using the stairs, and assembling in a o Employees should be given enough time to
designated area. evacuate the premises safely.
o The drill should be conducted in a realistic
❒ Earthquake drills manner and as close to a real emergency
 are another common type of emergency situation as possible.
drill conducted in the workplace. These  When conducting a workplace emergency drill, it is
drills are designed to ensure that important to debrief your employees afterwards. This
everyone in the building knows what to will allow you to identify any areas where
do during an earthquake. The drill should improvements can be made. It will also provide
include evacuating the building, using the
employees with the opportunity to raise any
stairs, and assembling in a designated
area. concerns they may have about the drill or the
emergency procedures.
❒ Tornado drills  Simulating a real event is necessary to polish your
 are another common type of emergency disaster plans. “An organization that fails to plan,
drill conducted in the workplace. These is planning to fail”.
drills are designed to ensure that  Use tabletop exercises to evaluate your evacuation
everyone in the building knows what to procedures with your emergency team. You can test
do during a tornado. The drill should for potential glitches and find unaddressed
include evacuating the building, using the complications by running hypothetical scenarios.
stairs, and assembling in a designated  “Work through the process of what an event will
area. entail and what resources you need to bring to bear.
Anticipate how people are going to go evacuate,
where they should go, and how you’re going to
Factors To Consider In Workplace Emergency Drills communicate this to them.”
 It is important for employers to choose the right type
of emergency drill for their workplace. The type of
drill should be based on the hazards present in the
workplace. By conducting the proper type of drill,
employers can ensure that their employees are
prepared in the event of an emergency.

Teachers:
 Bring everyone indoors
 Ensure exterior doors are locked
 Increase situational awareness
 Take attendance
 Business as usual inside the
classroom
LOCKDOWN
Locks, Lights, Out of Sight
 Lockdown is activated when there is a threat
inside the school building. Creates a time barrier
Students:
 Immediately move away from the theat
 Get to a safe area-classroom or away from the
school
 Stay out of sight
 Maintain silence
Teachers:
 Immediately bring students in to the classroom
LOCKOUT
 Lock the classroom door
Secure the Perimeter
 Cover interior windows, lights out
 Lockout is activated when there is an unsafe
situation outside the school building. Designated  Move away from sight
personnel are assigned to secure the exterior  Maintain silence
doors to the building.  Wait for First Responders to open
the door
Students:  Take attendance, account for
 Return and remain inside the school building students
 Business as usual inside the classroom

TEAM RESPONSE EVACUATE! TO THE ANNOUNCED LOCATION
Activate School Emergency Team (SET) Students:
 Team response is activated when there is a  Bring your phone
medical emergency or some non threatening  Leave your stuff behind
incident that requires staff to control movement  Follow instructions
inside the school
Teacher:
Students:  Lead evacuation to location
 Immediately return to their classrooms  Take attendance
 Notify if missing, extra or injured students
Teachers:
 Return to classrooms HOLD! IN YOUR CLASSROOM. CLEAR THE HALLS
 Take attendance, account for students Students:
 Increased situational awareness  Remain in the classroom until the “All Clear” is
 Business as usual inside classroom announced
DUCK- COVER- HOLD ON Teacher:

Earthquake  Close and lock classroom door
 Business as usual
Students:  Take attendance
 Get under a desk, table or hard surface
 Stay away from windows and other objects that
could fall CONCLUSION
 Wait for evacuation instructions from teacher  Emergency drills are an important part of
workplace safety. By knowing what type of drill to
Teacher: conduct and how to execute it effectively, you can
 Get under a desk, table or hard surface minimize the risk of injury or death in the event of
 Stay away from windows and other objects that a real emergency. Make sure your workplace is
could fall prepared for any potential emergency by
 Assess the damage, determine if it is safe to conducting regular drills with your team. If you’re
evacuate not sure where to start, our guide on emergency
 Grab emergency attendance roster and drills will help get you started. Stay safe!
emergency supplies
 Take roll, account for students
SHELTER-IN-PLACE
Remain in doors
 air contaminate or threat requiring staff and
community to remain in doors
Students:
 Follow the instructions of teacher
 Be ready to move
Teachers:
 Cancel outside activities
 Move students to interior
rooms
 Seal windows door if
necessary
 Take attendance, account
for students

MEDICAL TRAUMA- PATIENT ASSESSMENT
VITAL SIGNS  Solicit any signs of systemic infection or

inflammation in the presence of fever, or elevated
Objective significantly above the individual's normal
temperature.
Vital Signs
 Enhances the First Responder's ability to take
NORMAL BODY TEMPERATURE
the vital signs of the patient which includes the
temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, perfusion  Measured in degree Celsius or Centigrade (ºC)
and the mental status of the patient. This lesson and degree Fahrenheit (ºF)
provides the knowledge and skills to properly  Varies on gender, recent activity, food and fluid
perform the initial assessment. consumption, time of day, and, in women, the
stage of the menstrual cycle.
 Vitals or VS is used to measure the body’s basic  36.5 degrees C (or Celsius) or 97.8 degrees F
functions. (or Fahrenheit) to 37.2 degrees C or 99
 These measurements are taken to help assess the degrees F for a healthy adult.
general physical health of a person, give clues to
possible diseases, and show progress toward MEASUREMENT TEMPERATURE
recovery.  Thermometer is a device that measures
 The normal ranges for a person’s vital signs vary temperature or a temperature gradient.
with age, weight, gender, and overall health.
Body Temperature Site
5 primary vital signs (5VS)  Oral (Mouth) 36.8 °C (98.2 °F)
 Body Temperature  Rectal (Rectum) 37.5 °C (99.5 °F)
 Pulse Rate/Heart Rate (HR)  Axillary (Armpit) 36.5 °C (97.7 °F)
 Breathing Rate/Respiratory Rate (RR)  Tympanic (Ear) 37.5 °C (99.5 °F)
 Blood Pressure (BP)  Temporal (Forehead) 36.5 °C (97.7 °F)
 Pulse Oximetry (SpO2)
Temp Abnormalities
6th, 7th & 8th Vital Signs  Hypothermia is the condition of having an
 Level of Consciousness abnormally low body temperature, typically one
 Pupillary Reaction that is dangerously low. <36.5°C
 Pain  Hyperthermia is the condition of having a body
 Skin Condition temperature greatly above normal. >37.2°C
 Capillary Refill
 Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
 Blood Glucose Level (CBG)
Additional Vital Signs

 Height & Weight
 Outlook (Mental Status)
 Urinary Output
 Capnograph
 Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) HEART RATE
 Pulse Rate or Heart Rate (HR) is the rate at which
the heart beats while pumping blood through the
BODY TEMPERATURE
arteries. Its rate is usually measured either at the
 Indication of core body temperature is normally wrist or the ankle and is recorded as beats per
tightly controlled (thermoregulation) as it affects the minute.
rate of chemical reactions.
 Establish a baseline for the individual's normal body
temperature for the site and measuring conditions.

PULSE RATE Pulse Abnormalities
 Pulsus alterans strong pulse followed by a
Normal Heart Rate(beats per minute) weak pulse over and over (progressive systolic
Newborn (0-3 m) 100-150 bpm heart failure).
 Pulsus bigeminus gallop rhythm (hoofbeats).
Infant (3-6 m) 90-120 bpm
 Pulsus bisferiens 2 pulse to each beat instead
Infant (6-12 m) 80-120 bpm
of 1 (aortic valve disease).
Children (1-10) 70-130 bpm
 Pulsus tardus er parvus or anacrotic pulse
Children (>10)Adult 60-100 bpm slow than normal tactile pulse (stiff aortic valve).
Trained Athletes 40-60 bpm  Pulsus paradoxus cannot be detected at radial
artery during respiration cause by exaggerated
Strength of Pulse decrease in BP during inspiration (cardiac or
0 Absent respiratory condition)
1 Barely palpable  Tachycardia elevated resting heart rate
2 Easily palpable  Bradycardia decreased resting heart rate
3 Full  Pulsatile intrinsic physiology of systole and
4 Aneurysmal or Bounding pulse diastole
 Collapsing pulse (hyperdynamic circulation)
MEASUREMENT & SITE PR
 Palpate on pulses counting 1 minute
 Auscultate directly on the chest RESPIRATION RATE
 RR is the number of breaths (inhalation-exhalation
cycles) taken within a minute.
 Eupnea normal RR
 Tachypnea increased RR
 Bradypnea lower-than-normal RR
NORMAL RESPIRATORY RATE
Age Group Age Breaths per

minute
Newborn 0-6 weeks 30-60 cycles per
minute
Infant 6 weeks to 6 25-40 cpm
months
Toddler 1 to 3 years 20-30 cpm
Young Children 3 to 6 years 20-25 cpm
Older Children 10 to 14 years 15-20 cpm
Young Adult 14 to 18 years
Palpable Site Adult 18 years and 12-20 cpm
above
 Temporal (forehead)  Apical (chest)
 Facial (lower jaw)  Femoral (inner thigh)
MEASUREMENT RR
 Carotid (neck)  Popliteal (behind the
 Axillary (armpit) knee)  Human respiration rate is measured when a
 Brachial (arm)  Tibialis posterior person is at rest and involves counting the
 Radial (lateral wrist) (ankle) number of breaths for one minute by counting
 Dorsalis pedis (top of how many times the chest rises.
 Ulnar (medial wrist)
foot)

RR Abnormalities Age Diastole Systole
 Apnea cessation of breathing Infant 65 mmHg 95 mmHg
 Dyspnea difficulty or discomfort during Child 65 mmHg 100 mmHg
breathing Adult 60-80 mmHg 90-120 mmHg
 Hyperpnea increased depth in breathing
 Tachypnea abnormal rapid Diastole Systole
 Hypopnea overly shallow breathing or low Ventricles of Fill with blood Left ventricle
respiratory rate the heart contract
 Bradypnea abnormally slow Blood Vessels Relaxed Contracted
 Orthopnea shortness of breath (lying flat)
 Platypnea shortness of breath (breathlessness)
BP MEASUREMENT
relieved by lying down, worsen when sitting or
standing up  Arterial pressure is most commonly measured
via a sphygmomanometer, which historically
 Biot’s respiration quick and shallow
used the height of a column of mercury to reflect
inspirations followed by periods of apnea
the circulating pressure or a dial in an aneroid.
BLOOD PRESSURE POINTS

 Cheyne-Stokes respiration progressive deep
and sometimes faster breathing, followed by a  Listen with the stethoscope to the brachial
gradual decrease that results in a temporary artery at the antecubital area of the elbow and
stop in breathing or apnea slowly releases the pressure in the cuff.
 “Whooshing" or pounding (1st Korotkoff
sound) – systolic blood pressure. Further
 Kussmaul breathing hyperventilation tend to release cuff pressure until no sound can be
be rapid and relatively shallow heard (5th Korotkoff sound) – diastolic arterial
pressure.
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BLOOD PRESSURE
 BP is the pressure exerted by circulating blood upon
the walls of blood vessels.
 Refers to the arterial pressure in the systemic
circulation.
 Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of
the systolic (maximum) pressure
over diastolic (minimum) pressure.
 Measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg).
BP Abnormalities
NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE
Category Systolic, mm Diastolic, mm
 Systole is the part of the cardiac
Hg Hg
cycle when the ventricles contract.
Hypotension <90 < 60
 120 mmHg
Desired 90-119 60-79
Prehypertension 120-139 80-89
 Diastole is the part of the cardiac Stage 1
140-159 90-99
cycle when the heart refills with hypertension
blood following systole contraction. Stage 2
160-179 100-109
 80 mmHg hypertension
Hypertensive
≥ 180 ≥ 110
emergency
Isolated systolic
≥ 140 < 90
hypertension

 Hypotension is the abnormally low blood Abnormalities in O2 Saturation
pressure, which is considered too low only if  Hypoxemia is normally low level of oxygen in
noticeable symptoms are present. Low Blood the blood. More specifically, it is oxygen
Pressure. deficiency in arterial blood.
 Orthostatic hypotension is also called  Hypoxia, hypoxiation or anoxemia is a
postural hypotension results from a condition in which the body or a region of the
sudden change in body position. Usually body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply.
standing up from suddenly from a Pulse Ox Limitations
seated or lying position.  A falsely high or falsely low reading will occur
 Neurologic syncope is an inappropriate when hemoglobin binds to something other than
drop of blood pressure while standing oxygen:
up.  Hemoglobin has a higher affinity to
 Hypertension is a pathological increase in carbon monoxide than oxygen, and a
blood pressure. High Blood Pressure. high reading may occur despite the
 Essential hypertension (primary patient actually being hypoxemic. In
hypertension or idiopathic hypertension) cases of carbon monoxide poisoning,
is the form of hypertension that by this inaccuracy may delay the
definition, has no identifiable cause. recognition of hypoxia (low blood
 Secondary hypertension (inessential oxygen level).
hypertension) is caused by unidentified  Cyanide poisoning gives a high
secondary cause reading, because it reduces oxygen
 Hypertensive crisis is severely elevated extraction from arterial blood. In this
blood pressure (equal to or greater than case, the reading is not false, as arterial
a systolic 180 or diastolic of 110) blood oxygen is indeed high in early
 Hypertensive urgency no organ cyanide poisoning.
damage  Methemoglobinemia characteristically
 Hypertensive emergency direct causes pulse oximetry readings in the
organ damage mid-80s.
 Gestational hypertension or Pre-
eclampsia
 Hypertension in children
LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 Individual’s awareness and understanding of what is
OXYGEN SATURATION happening in his or her surroundings
 Pulse Ox is a non-invasive method for monitoring a o Conscious (sensing, perceiving, and
person's O2 saturation (SpO2 or Saturation of choosing)
peripheral oxygen). o Preconscious (memories that we can
access)
o Unconscious ( memories that we can not
access)
o Non-conscious ( bodily functions without
sensation)
o Subconscious ( “inner child,” self image
formed in early childhood).
PULSE OXYMETRY
 a sensor device is placed on a thin part of the
patient's body, usually a fingertip or earlobe, or
in the case of an infant, across a foot. The
device passes two wavelengths of light through
the body part to a photodetector.

Pupil Reaction Abnormalities
 Anisocoria or unequal pupils
 Sluggish or slow reaction
 Non-reactive
PAIN ASSESSMENT
 Assessed according to multidimensional approach,
determine the following:
o Chronicity
PUPILLARY RESPONSE
o Severity
 Physiological involuntary response of the pupil of the o Quality
eyes to light o Contributing/associated factors
 Important in assessing underlying neurological o Location/distribution or etiology of pain, if
cause identifiable
o Perfusion o Mechanism of injury, if applicable
o Oxygenation o Barriers to pain assessment
o Condition
Pain Assessment Tool
NORMAL PUPILLARY RESPONSE
 Onset of the event. When the pain started
 The pupils are normally round and of
 Provocation or paliation. Any movement,
approximately equal size (Isocoria).
pressure or other external factors make it worse.
 In the absence of any light, the pupils will
 Quality of the pain. Description of the pain.
become fully relaxed and dilated.
 Radiation or region. Where the pain moves to
 Shone the pupils react briskly, simultaneous and
another area
equal to light.
 Severity. The pain score on a scale 0 to 10.
 Time (history). How long the condition has been
going on and how it has changed since onset
Pupils - Equal, Round & Reactive to Light and

Accomodation (PERRLA)
PUPIL SIZE MEASUREMENT

 Dim the ambient light and ask the patient to
fixate a distant target. Using a penlight,
illuminate the right eye from the right side and
the left from the left side.

SKIN CONDITION GLASGOW COMA SCALE
 Assessment of skin color includes patient’s skin  GCS is a neurological scale that give a reliable,
color, temperature, and condition. While evaluating objective way of recording the conscious state of a
the skin, continue to look for bleeding. person for initial as well as subsequent assessment.
 Skin color depends on blood circulating in the  Published in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan J.
vessels of the skin. Skin color also depends on the Jennett, professors of neurosurgery at the University
kind and amount of pigment in the skin. of Glasgow's Institute of Neurological Sciences at
the city's Southern General Hospital, Scotland.
NORMAL SKIN COLOR
 Lightly pigmented individuals normally has a ELEMENTS OF GCS
pink color.  EVM 456
SKIN CONDITIONS
Color Emotion Condition

Red Angry
Pink to Red Aroused or Hot and Flushing
Excited
White Anxious, Cold or Pale and
Fear Clammy
Blue Cold or Extreme
Pale and Dry
Fear GCS INTERPRETATION
Green Severe Anxiety  Generally, brain injury is classified as:
Cold and
or Disgust  Severe, with GCS < 8–9
Clammy
Yellow Extreme Fear  Moderate, GCS 8 or 9–12 (controversial)
 Minor, GCS ≥ 13
COLORED POEM  Movement:
 “When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm
black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm
sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...
when you're born (points to white man) you're
pink, when you grow up you're white, when
you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're
blue, when you die you're green and you dare
call me colored”
CAPILLARY REFILL
 Nail Blach Test or Capillary Refill Test (CRT) is a
rapid test used for assessing the blood flow through
peripheral tissues.
 It's a quick test performed on the nail beds as an
indicator of tissue perfusion (the amount of blood
flow to tissue) and dehydration.
BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL
ASSESSING SKIN CONDITION  A mean of checking the blood sugar or glucose level
at any one time.
 Skin touching with the wrist or the back of the
 Glucose meter or glucometer is used to determine
hand.
the approximate concentration of glucose in the
 Skin turgor
blood.
 Capillary refill is the ability of the circulatory
system to restore blood to refill the capillaries.

Abnormal Blood Glucose Level  Onset, Provocation, Quality, Radiation,
Severity and Time
Blood Glucose Excellent Good Acceptable Poor
Level
Befor mmol/L 4.0 – 6.0 6.1 – 8.1 – 10.0 >10.0
e 8.0
meals
mg/dL 72 – 109 110 - 145 – 180 >180
144
After mmol/L 5.0 – 7.0 7.1 – 10.1 – >13
meals 10.0 13.0
mg/dL 90 – 126 127 – 181 – 234 >235
180
 Hypoglycemia, low blood sugar or glucose,

is when blood sugar decreases to below
normal.
 Hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar is a
condition in which an excessive amount of
glucose circulates in the blood plasma.
HISTORY TAKING
Objective
History Taking
 Enhances the First Responder's ability to
effectively communicate with the patient and
garner important information that determines the
mechanism of injury or nature of illness of the
patient. This lesson provides the knowledge and
skills to properly perform the initial assessment.
Components
 Determining the chief complaint
 Mechanism of injury/nature of illness
 Associated signs and symptoms
 Investigation of the chief complaint
 Past medical history
 Pertinent negatives
Patient History
 Px Hx are pertinent information obtained in order to
formulate a diagnosis of the patient and utilized as
basis for providing medical care to the patient.
Components of Px Hx
 Signs and symptoms
 Sign is something you see in a patient
 Symptom is what patient tell you how they
feel
 Chief Complaint is usually the symptom that is
bothering the patient the most.
 OPQRST Questions

EMERGENCY ACTION PRINCIPLE II. Primary Assessment
Objective Primary assessment for all patient situations

Patient Assessment 1. Level of consciousness or LOC (AVPU)
 Enhances the First Responder's ability to 2. ABCs
evaluate a scene for potential hazards, to 3. Identifying life threats
determine the number of patients, whether 4. Determine Mechanism or Injury (MOI) or Nature
additional help is necessary, and to evaluate the of Illness (NOI)
mechanism of injury or nature of illness. 5. Assessment of vital functions
 This lesson provides the knowledge and skills to 6. Initial general impression (GI)
properly perform the initial assessment. In this
session, the student will learn about forming a 1. LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
general impression, determining
responsiveness, and assessing the airway, Painful stimulus
breathing, and circulation. Students will discuss o Pinch earlobe
how to determine priorities of patient care. o Press down on bone above eye
 This lesson also teaches the knowledge and o Pinch neck muscle
skills required to continue the assessment and
management of the ill or injured patient. Mental status oriented to:
o Person
EMERGENCY ACTION PRINCIPLE (EAP) o Place
1. Scene-Size Up o Time
2. Primary Assessment o Event
3. Interventions
4. Secondary Assessment 2. ABC
5. Reassessment
I. Scene-Size Up
 Quick assessment of the scene and surroundings
 Scene management
o Impact of the environment
o Addressing hazards
o Violence
o Need for additional or specialized resources 3. IDENTIFY LIFE THREATS
o Standard precautions (BSI PPE)  Perform rapid scan
o Multiple patient situations (Triage/MCI)  Determine need for C-Spine Immobilization
 Transport decision (Pre-Hospital Care Strategies)
SAFETY FIRST  “Load and Go”
 Make sure safety is priority before entering the  “Stay and Play” (“Treat and Run”)
scene. Never become a victim.  “Scoop and Run”
 Look for potential hazards.
 When parking a unit, park it in a place that will Transport Decision
offer great safety.
 Talk to law enforcement before entering the ❒ “Load and Go”
scene, especially if it is a crime scene.  The process of packaging a patient and
 Assess the safety of the patient(s) and loading them onto an ambulance to be
bystanders. Move bystanders if necessary. taken to hospital.
 Wear proper PPE and follow BSI techniques.  Criteria: Under the following
 Evaluate the need for additional resources. circumstances a patient must always be
Contact dispatch if need more help. a load and go:
 When there are multiple patients, call for help  Altered Level of Consciousness.
and begin triage before beginning patient care.  Any compromise to the Airway.

 Any compromise to the
Breathing.
 Any compromise to the
Circulation.
 Life threatening injury is found

 Continue life support
 Stabilize any major injuries as quickly as
possible
 Administer Oxygen
 Load patient into stretcher or any means EMS Phases
of transport 1. Detection
 Transport to medical facility 2. Reporting
3. Response
❒ “Stay and Play” 4. On-Scene Care
 The approach of pre-hospital trauma 5. Care in Transit
care in which the patient receives 6. Transfer to Definitive Care
treatment and/or stabilization on scene
before being transported to the hospital.
 Research found effective in treating out-
of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), in
which immediate care is delivered on site
rather than during transport to the
emergency department (ED). (Westafer
et. al., JAMA 2020 Sep 15)
 On-scene resuscitation for OHCA
increases survival rate, is dismal and
transport may interrupt or reduce the
quality of chest compressions.
 EMS agencies should compare their
protocols and outcomes with those of EMS Phases: 1. Detection
high-performing systems, paying  The first vital aspect in the case of an
particular attention to intra-arrest emergency is the detection of the problem, the
transport. extent of the problem, and identifying ways in
which people on site can protect themselves
from any danger around them. This role is
usually undertaken by civilians who are often the
first responders in such situations.
EMS Phases: 2. Reporting

 After the first responders have identified the
problem and taken measures to protect
themselves and others, they will call in for
❒ “Scoop and Run” professional help, explain the situation, and
 Patient is transported as fast as possible provide their location after which an emergency
to the hospital without trying to stabilize medical dispatch is sent to the scene.
him at the scene.
 Administering only Basic Life Support EMS Phases: 3. Response
(BLS) at the trauma site before rushing  Calling for help is not the end of the first
patients to a hospital while they are still responders’ duty. While awaiting professional
in their “platinum minutes” help, the civilians are required to try to the most
of their ability to administer first aid to those that
need it.

EMS Phases: 4. On-Scene Care 4. DETERMINE MOI AND NOI
 This is usually the first role performed by the  Nature of Illness is the cause or what affects the
professional medics. The Emergency Medical sickness.
Services (EMS) staff on arrival provide as much  Mechanism of Injury or how the traumatic injury
medical care as they possibly can on the scene. occur.
EMS Phases: 5. Care in Transport NOI: Medical

 When a patient needs much more specialized  Determine history of the patient
care than can be offered on the scene, EMS  Similarities of NOI and MOI
staff transport them to the hospital. While in  Talk with bystanders and family members
transit, the EMS staff continue to utilize the  Use senses to check for clues
medical equipment attached to their mode of
transport to help the patient and administer as
much medical care as possible. MOI: Trauma
 Injuries that can potentially lead to serious
EMS Phases: 6. Transfer to Definitive Care outcomes.
 This usually is the stage at which emergency  Easily injured areas: brain, spinal cord and eyes
medical personnel conclude their roles. At this
 Factors to evaluate
point, the patient is already at the hospital  Amount of force applied to the body
whereby they can receive the appropriate
 Length of time the force was applied
medical care, personalized to their needs. The
 Areas of the body that are involved
EMS staff hand the patient over to the doctors
and await the next dispatch.
6. GENERAL IMPRESSION
 How ill the patient is.
 The Golden Period is the time from injury to
 Specific information:
definitive care.
 Location
 Treatment of shock and traumatic injuries
 Gender
should occur.
 Age (rough)
 Aim to assess, stabilize, package, and begin
 Level of distress
transport within 10 minutes (“Platinum 10”).
 Gestalt of GI:
 Behavior
 Breathing
 Appearance of the skin
IV. Secondary Assessment
MEDICAL
o History Taking
o Focused assessment of pain
o Assessment of vital signs (VS)
o Detailed Physical examination
TRAUMA
o Performing a rapid full-body scan (RTA) or
o Head-to-Toe Examination
o Focused assessment of pain
o Assessment of vital signs (VS)
o Detailed Physical examination
HISTORY TAKING
 SAMPLE History
 OPQRST

RTA Boxing DCAP-BTLS 5. Reassessment
 Reassess patients and monitor condition while
waiting for professional help, en route or in transit
Category Minutes Interval

Critical or Emergency Every 5 minutes or necessary
Urgent or Non-critical Every 10 minutes
Emergent or Non-Urgent Every 15 to 30 minutes
Special Challenges
 Silence  Depression
 Overly-talkative  Confused
 Multiple symptoms  Limited cognitive
 Anxiety abilities
FOCUSED ASSESSMENT ON PAIN  Anger and hostility  Language barriers
 Intoxication  Hearing problems
 Crying  Visual impairments
EMERGENCY ACTION PRINCIPLE

1. Scene Size-Up
2. Primary Assessment
3. Interventions
4. Secondary Assessment
5. Reassessment
Physical Assessment: MEDICAL

1. Scene Size-Up
a. Scene Safety
b. Nature of Illness
c. Number of Patients
d. Require Additional Help
e. C-Spine Stabilization
a. General Impression
b. Responsiveness/Level of
Consciousness
c. CAB
Vital Signs d. Chief Complaint/Apparent Life Threats
e. Patient Priority/Patient Transport Priority
Detailed Physical Exam
 Individual body parts examined for signs of illness or a. Focused History
injury i. Signs and Symptoms
 Performed for: ii. Allergies
o Trauma with significant MOI iii. Medications
o Unresponsive medical patients iv. Past Pertinent History
o Not all patients require a detailed PE v. Last Oral Intake
vi. Events Leading to Present
Illness
b. Focused Physical Examination

i. IPPA

c. Baseline Vital Signs
4. Reassessment
Physical Assessment: TRAUMA

1. Scene Size-Up
a. Scene Safety
b. Mechanism of Injury
c. Number of Patients
d. Require Additional Help
e. C-Spine Stabilization
a. General Impression
b. Responsiveness/Level of
Consciousness
c. Apparent Life Threats
d. CAB
e. Patient Priority/Patient Transport Priority
a. Focused Physical Examination or Rapid
Trauma Assessment
b. Detailed Physical Examination

i. Head
ii. Neck
iii. Chest
iv. Abdomen/Pelvis
v. Extremities
vi. Posterior
4. Reassessment

TRAUMA OVERVIEW
Trauma Objectives: Newton’s Law of Motion

 In every action there is an equal and opposite
Soft Tissue Injuries reaction.
 Reviews the cardiovascular system and teaches
the management of soft tissue injuries and
burns. Techniques of dressing and bandaging
wounds will also be taught in this lesson.
Bleeding
 Describes the care of the patient with internal
and external bleeding. Techniques of dressing
and bandaging wounds will also be taught in this
lesson.
MECHANISM OF INJURY
Recognition and Care for Shock  Easily injured areas:
 Reviews the cardiovascular system, teaches o Brain
how to recognize the signs and symptoms of o spinal cord
shock, and the management and care for shock. o eyes
Muscle and Bone Injuries  Factors to evaluate

 Reviews the anatomy of and injuries to the o Amount of force applied to the body
musculoskeletal system. Presents information o Length of time the force was applied
about injuries of the skeletal system. Reviews o Areas of the body that are involved
the anatomy of the nervous system and the
skeletal system.
Head and Spinal Injuries

 Reviews the anatomy of and injuries to nervous
system. Presents information about injuries of
the nervous system. Reviews the anatomy of the
nervous system and the skeletal system.
Discusses injuries to the spine and head,
including the mechanism of injury, signs and
symptoms of injury, and assessment.
Chest and Abdomen Injuries

 Reviews the anatomy of and injuries to
anatomical systems within the chest (thorax)
and abdomen. Presents information particularly
about injuries of the cardiovascular, respiratory,
digestive, endocrine, urinary and reproductive
system. Reviews the anatomy of the nervous
system and the skeletal system. Discusses
injuries to the chest and abdomen, including the
mechanism of injury, signs and symptoms of
injury, and assessment particular to internal
bleeding.

Trauma Classification by type of force applied
 Blunt Trauma (blunt injury, non-penetrating or
blunt force trauma) physical trauma by a blunt
force
 Contusion
 Abrasions
 Lacerations
 Bone fractures
 Penetrating Trauma pierces the skin and

enters a tissue of the body, creating an opening.
 Puncture and penetration
Bleeding
ASSESSMENT
FALL
BLOOD VESSELS
Trauma Classification to the Parts of the Body
 Polytrauma
 Head injuries
 Chest trauma CHARACTERISTICS OF EXTERNAL BLEEDING
 Abdominal trauma
 Extremity trauma

Bandages and Dressings Shock Position
Bandages Dressings
 Adhesive  Non-adherent
 Fabric Tape  Sterile gauze
 Field bandage  ABD dressing
 Roller bandage  Roller gauze
 Triangular  Oval eye
 Vasilinized gauze
 Telfa pad
 Adaptic pads
 Xeroform gauze
Bleeding Control
Soft-Tissue Injuries
ABRASION
LACERATION

PENETRATING FRACTURE
CONTUSION
AVULSION AMPUTATION
SPRAIN (LIGAMENT)
BLAST
STRAIN (MUSCLES)
DISLOCATION

BURN Head and Spine Injuries
Immobilize and Splint

CRANIAL INJURY Concussion vs. Contusion
Concussion
 Mildtraumatic brain injury (a simple disturbance)
in brain function with no resulting brain damage
 There is no actual interference within
the structure of the brain.
 Main symptoms are headaches and dizziness.
INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE
EPIDURAL
Contusion
 Deep bruising to the brain tissue which can
cause haemorrhaging, the evidence of which
can be found in the spinal fluid.
 Symptoms of blurred vision, disorientation,
unsteadiness whilst walking, vomiting and
slurred speech, which can ultimately develop
into a coma.
SUBDURAL
INTRACEREBRAL

LIFTING, MOVING AND POSITIONING PATIENTS
Objective  "We will move in that specific direction when I

 Provides students with knowledge of body say, 'Move.'"
mechanics, lifting and carrying techniques, and  "We will stop moving when I say, 'Stop.'"
principles of moving patients.  "We will lower when I say, 'Lower.'"
Body Mechanics Lifting

 Body Mechanics is the proper use of the body to  In lifting:
prevent injury and to facilitate lifting and moving. o Shoulder girdle
 To move patients without injury, you need to learn aligned over
proper techniques. pelvis.
 Correct body mechanics, grips, and devices are o Hands held close
important to legs.
o Force goes
Manual Handling Considerations essentially
straight down
spinal column.
o Very little strain
occurs.
Lifting rules to prevent injuries

 Position your feet properly on a firm, level
surface and positioned shoulder-width apart.
 Use your legs, not your back to do the lifting.
 DO NOT compensate when lifting with one hand.
AVOID leaning to either side. Keep your back
straight and locked.
 Keep the weight close to the body, or as close
as possible. This allows you to use your legs
❒ Object rather than your back while lifting. The farther
 What is the weight? the weight is from your body, the greater your
 Do you require additional help in lifting? chance of injury.
 Keep your back straight. Flex your knees and
❒ Limitations lean from the hips, not the waist. If you are
 Physical characteristics of each person? walking backward down stairs, ask a helper to
 Physical limitations both you and steady your back.
partner?
 Similar strength and height can lift and
carry together more easily.
❒ Communications
 Make a plan.
 Communicate plan for lifting and
carrying.
 Continue communicate during the
process to make the move comfortable
for the patient and safe for the EMTs.
COMMUNICATE
 "We will lift when I say, 'Lift.'"
 "We will stop lifting when I say, 'Stop.'"

Power Whatyamacallit? NON-URGENT MOVES
 The required treatment can only be performed if
patient is moved.
 Factors at scene cause patient decline.
EMERGENCY MOVES
 The scene is hazardous.
 Care of life-threatening conditions requires Patient-Carrying Devices
repositioning.
 You must reach your patient. WHEELED STRETCHER/COT
SCOOP STRETCHER/ORTHOPEDIC STRETCHER
FLEXIBLE STRETCHERS
 Fabric or Evac Sheet
URGENT MOVES
 The required treatment can only be performed if
patient is moved.
 SKED Stretcher
 Factors at scene cause patient decline.

 Vacuum Mattress or VacMat RECOVERY POSITION
 Reeves Stretcher
Geriatric Considerations
PORTABLE STRETCHER
 Folding Stretcher Kyphosis Spondylosis
Bariatric Considerations
STOKES OR BASKET STRETCHER/LITTER
Medical Restraints
ANATOMICAL POSITIONS  Apply restraint to each extremity.
 Assess circulation after restraints are applied.

MCI- TRIAGE
MCI Triage and Operations o Currently, the SALT triage system is the only
one that meets the Model Uniform Core
General Learning Objectives Criteria
Triage
Mass Casualty Incident (MCI)
Provide nursing students with instruction about:  A mass casualty incident (often shortened to MCI
 different types of triage. and sometimes called a multiple-casualty
 method of conducting a verbal interview to incident or multiple-casualty situation) is any
assess a patient's health status incident in which emergency medical services
 how to offer recommendations for treatment and resources, such as personnel and equipment, are
referral. overwhelmed by the number and severity
of casualties.
Knowledge of operational roles and responsibilities of  Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) defined as an
the Nurse to ensure patient, public, and personnel safety incident where the number of patients (or the rate of
in an event of a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). their arrival to a medical facility) overwhelms local
resources (and the ability to immediately supplement
Principles of START Triage them).
 Risks and responsibilities of emergency
response MCI vs MCS
 Risks and responsibilities of transport  Mass Casualty Incidents are distinguished from
Multiple Casualty Situations by available resources:
SAVE o with Mass Casualties, resources for each
 Safe patient evacuation patient are limited,
 Criteria for utilizing air medical response o whereas with Multiple Casualties, full
resources can be brought to bear on each
individual patient.
Etymology of the word Triage
 The French word “trier”, the origin of the word
CAUSES OF MCI
“triage”, was originally applied to a process of
sorting, probably around 1792, by Baron  Radiation exposure (disaster)
Dominique Jean Larrey, Surgeon in Chief to  Dirty bomb
Napoleon's Imperial Guard.  Bioterrorism
 Larrey was credited with designing a flying  Chemical weapons
ambulance: the Ambulance Volante.  Mass shooting
 Natural Disaster (e.g. Hurricane, Earthquake,
Background of Triage Tornado, Tsunami, etc)
 Used by first responders to quickly classify victims  Unintentional large-scale incident (e.g. building
during a mass casualty incident (MCI) based on the collapse, train derailment, etc)
severity of their injury  Major pandemic
 Unlike standard medical triage, MCI triage is more  Explosions
utilitarian (i.e. the greatest good for the greatest
number of people) MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT (MCI)
 Multiple triage systems exist, however evidence
regarding their effectiveness is lacking. Boston Marathon
 In an effort to update and standardize MCI triage, bombings
the Model Uniform Core Criteria (MUCC) were April 16, 2013
created as a national guideline for MCI triage
o These criteria have been endorsed by all
major national shareholders, including
NAEMSP, ACEP, ACS, NAEMT, NASEMSO,
AMA, CDC, and others.

Principles: Triage Classification Triage Classification: Deceased
 Minor (GREEN)  Priority 0: No Priority, Expectant, Morgue,
 Delayed (YELLOW) Unsalvageable
 Immediate (RED)  Color Code Black
 Deceased (BLACK)  Symbol Ankh or Cross
3R’s Action
 Retreat
 Severely injured likey to die of injuries
 Reassess
 In life-threatening medical crisis that they are
 Radio
unlikely to survive given the care available
 Treatment is usually palliative, such as being given
Triage Classification: MINOR painkillers, to reduce suffering.
 Priority 3: Low Priority, Walking Wounded, Non-
Urgent, Dismissed SALT Triage
 Color Code Green
 Sort, Assess, Life-saving interventions, Treatment
 Symbol Ambulance Marked X
and/or Transport
 Product of a CDC Sponsored working group to
propose a standardized triage method. The
guideline, entitled SALT triage, was developed
 Relatively low priority. Capable of walking.
based on the best available science and consensus
 These patients are conscious and breathing with
opinion.
only relatively minor injuries.
 Usually called upon to assist in treatment,
evacuation or other tasks.
 Are not evacuated until all immediate and delayed
have been evacuated
Triage Classification: Delayed

 Priority 2: Medium Priority, Emergent,
Stable,Observation
 Color Code Yellow
 Symbol Turtle
 Currently in stable condition but require medical

assistance and placed under observation.
 Medical evacuation is delayed until all immediates
have been transported.
START System
Triage Classification: Immediate  Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment
 Priority 1: High Priority, Urgent, Critical, Cannot  A triage method used by first responders to quickly
Wait classify victims during a mass casualty incident (MCI)
 Color Code Red based on the severity of their injury.
 Symbol Rabbit  The method was developed in 1983 by the staff
members of Hoag Hospital and Newport Beach Fire
Department in California, and is currently widely
used in the United States.
 Require immediate life-saving treatment to survive
 Have a chance of survival if transferred immediatelty
to definitve care

START Rapid Assessment
 Yes Respirations
 30/min (bpm) - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 < 30/min (bpm) - check Perfusion
 Radial Pulse Absent OR Capillary Refill > 2
seconds - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 Control Bleeding - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 Radial Pulse Present OR Capillary Refill < 2
seconds - Check Mental Status
 Unable to follow simple command -
IMMEDIATE (RED)
 Follows Simple Command - DELAYED
(YELLOW)
STEPS:  No Respirations
1. Make sure you are safe. Your Personal Safety is  Reposition or Open the Airway
utmost priority.  No Repiration - DECEASED (BLACK)
2. Speak loudly and ask people to stand up and walk  Respirations - IMMEDIATE (RED)
towards you.
3. Guide ambulatory patient. Those Able to walk
JumpSTART
relocate to a certain area
 The JumpSTART Pediatric Triage MCI triage tool
 Minor (Green)
(usually shortened to JumpSTART) is a variation of
4. Non-ambulatory patients are then assessed
the START triage system.
 Delayed (Yellow)
 Specific for triaging children in disasters.
 Red (Immediate)
 JumpSTART was created in 1995 and modified in
 Deceased / Expectant / Unsalvageable
2001 by Dr. Lou Romig, a pediatric emergency and
(Black)
disaster physician working at Miami Children's
Hospital.
Rapid Assessment
1. Able to walk relocate to a certain area

 Minor (Green)
2. Non-ambulatory patients are then assessed

 Delayed (Yellow)
 Red (Immediate)
 Deceased / Expectant / Unsalvageable
(Black)

 No Respirations Three categories:
 Reposition or Open the Airway  Those who will die regardless of care
 Respirations - IMMEDIATE (RED)  Those who will survive whether or not they
 No Repiration - Check Pulse receive care
 No Pulse - DECEASED (BLACK)  Those who will benefit from limited immediate
 Yes Pulse - 5 Rescue Breaths field interventions
 Still No Respirations -
DECEASED (BLACK) Triage
 Respirations - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 Yes Respirations
 < 15 or > 45/min (bpm) - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 15-45/min (bpm) - check Perfusion
 Pulse Absent OR Capillary Refill Time
(CRT) > 2 seconds - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 Control Bleeding - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 Pulse Present OR CRT < 2 seconds -
Check Mental Status
 Inappropriate - IMMEDIATE (RED)
 Appropriate - DELAYED (YELLOW
Combined START-JumpSTART Triage Algorithm
SAVE
 Secondary Assessment of Victim Endpoint
 Applies after patients have been triaged with
START/jumpStart
 Designed for appropriation of limited resources for
most gain in immediate on-scene care situations

Emergency Triage 7. A 57-year-old female has a deformed tibia and
fibula. She is oriented with respirations of 20 and
a pulse of about 100.
TRIAGE QUICK TEST
DELAYED
1. A 14-year-old male with a broken arm walking
o This patient does not fall into the walking
around the scene.
wounded category and doesn’t have outward
signs of shock, elevated respirations or an
MINOR
altered mental status. This makes her yellow.
o This patient is walking around the scene with
what appears to be an isolated extremity injury.
8. A 16-year-old female who is ambulatory and says
This would be a green status as “walking
she is "OK."
wounded.”
MINOR
2. A 36-year-old man is unresponsive with brain
o Walking wouned is green. Remember that
matter showing.
secondary triage will catch any hidden injuries.
DECEASED
9. A 42-year-old woman with no obvious injuries
o This patient is deceased and therefore given
and without a carotid pulse.
black status. This is a non-survivable wound.
DECEASED
3. A responsive 34-year-old female has pale, moist
o Resuscitation isn’t performed in a multiple
skin and respirations of 32/minute.
casualty situation. This patient is deceased.
IMMEDIATE
10. A 19-year-old male with 2nd and 3rd degree
o Rapid respiration and signs of shock place this
burns over about 80 percent of his body.
patient in the red category.
Respirations 24 and pulse about 120.
4. An unresponsive male patient has snoring

DELAYED
respirations. His breathing improves when you
o This patient is critical (and may not survive). The
open his airway.
patient doesn’t fit the criteria for green or red.
While it seems contradictory, yellow is a spot
IMMEDIATE
that meets the triage criteria and doesn’t take
o If a patient with airway problems responds to
the resources for a more salvageable red tagged
minimal interventions, then he is placed in the
patient.
red category
5. A 66-year-old male patient is sitting on the Limitations and Considerations

ground. His eyes are open, but he can't answer  Critical patients are vulnerable.
or follow directions.  Trauma measures are problematic.
 Categories do not differentiate among injury
IMMEDIATE severities and survival probabilities, and are invalid
o The patient can’t follow instructions and has an based on categorical definitions and evacuation
altered mental status, which places him in the priorities
red category.  Protocol doesn’t change to consider or address the
size of incident, resources, and injury severities and
6. A 50-year-old man has bilateral fractured femurs. prioritization within its categories whether it is 30,
He has a faint radial pulse and a respiratory rate 300, 3,000
of 24.  Resulting in inconsistent tagging and
prioritizing/ordering of casualties and substantial
IMMEDIATE overtriage
o The patient falls into the red category because
of the signs of shock (faint radial pulse).

REMEMBER DURING TRIAGE TELEPHONE TRIAGE
 The process of managing a patient’s call to the office
Manage scene before managing the patient. to determine the urgency of the medical issue, the
 How many patients? level of provider who should respond, the
 How many ambulances do I need to call in? appropriate location for the patient to be seen (if
 What information needed so that it can be necessary), and the timing of appointment
integrated to the scene more smoothly? scheduling.
 Where to enter from?
 Which hospital to send the patients? Triage Nurse
 Which medical facility is appropriate to receive  A nursing professional that helps patients determine
the patients? what type of care they need over the phone. They
often provide a cursory assessment of the patients
Look at those quiet patients before looking at the and help them decide if they need to seek
noisy ones. emergency treatment, make an appointment with a
 Noisy patients already triaged themselves with a doctor, or treat themselves at home.
patent airway, still perfusing and conscious  Crisis hotlines
mental status.  Physician offices
 “As long as a patient shouts he/she is still alive.”  Trauma centers
 Assess the quiet first and before moving with the  Hospitals
noisy ones.  Outpatient care facilities
 Poison control centers
Triage Tagging
 Unlike nurses who get to assess their patients
physically, telephone triage nurses don’t have that
type of luxury.
 Educate patients about managing their
symptoms
 Gather all the necessary information about
your patients, such as their height, weight,
and age
 Schedule consultations and refer to
specialists
 Provide support to medical response teams
when they are bringing patients to hospitals
 Assess the severity of the patient’s health
condition
TELEPHONE TRIAGE

Triaging Calls Patient Safety Strategy
 Utilize written policies and protocols for office and
1. Gather the Right Information clinical staff to follow when triaging calls and
o Name and basic demographics providing advice. Conduct periodic chart audits to
o Brief medical history ensure that policies and protocols are followed.
o Description of the illness Review the guidelines annually and revise as
o Chief complaint circumstances warrant.
 Train staff regarding questions to ask the caller and
2. Ask Relevant Questions when to refer a call to the physician immediately.
o life-threatening emergency or urgent problem The physician will then know that if he or she is
o follow-up questions should detect less urgent summoned to take a call, the patient has an urgent
issues and mild symptoms or emergent need.
 Practice Telephone Triage Scenarios. Help your
3. Confirm Understanding newest triagers improve their skills by practicing
o repeat a brief synopsis back to the patient to telephone triage scenarios before they get on the
confirm that they heard everything correctly line with real patients. Choose a range of scenarios,
and go over the possible outcomes of each call. This
4. Use Verbal Cues practice will help your triage team be more confident
o listen closely to the caller’s tone of voice, level and composed when they need to make decisions in
of concern, and level of anxiety while they real time.
speak  Instruct staff members to follow the advice protocols
and check with the doctor first if there is any doubt
5. When in Doubt, See the Patient about proper instructions or advice. Failure to do so
o don’t be held accountable for turning a patient may be considered the practice of medicine and
away if they had a severe problem practicing beyond their scope of practice.
 Require that staff members refer calls directly to the
6. Give Instructions for Call-Backs physician if a patient calls a second time with a
o encourage to call back if the condition gets complaint that was not resolved by previous
worse telephone advice.
 Require an in-person examination if a patient calls a
7. Document Telephone Interactions third time with a complaint that was not resolved by
o “if it’s not recorded, it wasn’t done” previous telephone advice.
 Document all calls in which medical information or
o advice is provided. Documentation should include
the date, time, patient’s name, name of caller as well
TRIAGE SYSTEM as his or her relationship to the patient, complaints,
concerns, questions, and the advice given.
 Document critical negative information that helped
determine the advice provided. i.e.: “Mother stated
the child has no fever, no lethargy, or neck stiffness,
has a good appetite and is taking fluids.”
 Document the reasoning behind any deviations from
the written protocols.
 End all calls by providing patient instructions on
when to call back or seek emergency care if
symptoms worsen or persist.
 If your hospital is having trouble keeping up with the
pace of phone calls, it may be time to hire a medical
call center. This will ensure you have the bandwidth
to thoroughly speak with all callers and reduce the
chance of triage error.

GO BAG
Grab and Go Kit

 After an emergency, you may need to survive on
your own for several days.
 Being prepared means having your own food, water
and other supplies to last for several days.
 A disaster supplies kit is a collection of basic items
your household may need in the event of an
emergency.
TIP:
 Rotate items annually.
 Making sure the clothes you have stored still fit!
Foods are still edible and far from the date of
expiration.
 Equipments or items are still in maximum
working conditions
How should I store my kit?

 Store these items in something that is portable
and easily carried, like a backpack or
tub/suitcase with wheels.
 Keep this kit in a designated place and have it
ready in case you have to leave your home
quickly.
 Make sure all family members know where the
kit is kept.
What other places should I have a kit?

Work
 Be prepared to shelter at work for at least 24
hours. Your work kit should include food, water
and other necessities like medicines, as well as
comfortable walking shoes, stored in a “grab and
go” case.
Car
 In case you get stranded, keep a kit of
emergency supplies in your car.

FIRE SAFETY
Fire Safety & Prevention  Make sure all power strips and extension cords
are tested and approved by a laboratory such as
Objectives UL (Underwriter’s Laboratories)
 To educate participants on how to avoid fires  Electrical Connections and Electrical Faults
and fire related injuries. have been the top cause of fires in Metro Manila
with an average of 53.85% of the total number of
 To create awareness of fire deaths and injuries
fires yearly. What are the general causes of
and their common causes.
Electrical fires?
 To inform participants of their personal
 Use of substandard materials
responsibility toward fire safety and injury
 Wrong Installation Practices
prevention.
 Malpractice in actual use
 Improper maintenance Practices
INTRODUCTION
 BFP NHQ 2023 January-February 1,984 fire UNATTENDED COOKING OR CANDLES
incidents (GMA News 2023 March 2, BFP Spokes
 Never leave an open stove or lit candle
SUPT. A. Atienza )
unattended. Unlike other causes, unattended
 Most common cause is electrical ignition
cooking/candles involves the presence of active
 About 500 LGU no fire trucks and active fire stations.
fire. Leaving it unattended can lead to serious
accidents.
MOST COMMON CAUSE
1. Electrical Connections 6. Flammable Chemicals COOKING FIRES
2. Cooking Fire 7. Combustible Gases  Cooking is usually associated with Gas. We
3. Open Pit Flames 8. Arson know that Fire and Gas, if not controlled properly,
is not a good.
4. Candles 9. Fireworks
 Pay attention to what you’re cooking.
5. Cigarettes 10. Ignition Sparks  If you leave the room, turn off the stove.
 Don’t cook if you’re sleepy or if you’re impaired.
Faulty Electrical Connections / Electrical  Keep flammable items away from heat sources.
Overloading  Clean your stovetop frequently to avoid grease
build up.
Electrical ignition
 which is related to the use of appliances, old CANDLES
wiring and extension wires as well as poor Unattended candles are a leading fire cause.
maintenance of electrical wiring.
Candle safety tips:
Poor/Damaged Wire Quality.  Use flameless candles.
 Electrical Overloading occurs when the current  When you leave the room, blow out the candle.
being passed through the wires exceed the  Keep anything that could burn at least a foot
capacity limit the wires can handle; this can heat away
up the wires and melt, leading to fire.  Don’t set the candles on anything combustible.
 Fires can start when the candle burns
ELECTRICAL SAFETY down to the base.
 Do not overload electrical sockets.
 Do not run cords under rugs or furniture. GREASE FIRES
 They can become worn, overheat, and  Always have the matching lid nearby!
cause a fire.  If you have a small grease fire you can
 Avoid putting cords against walls or across smother it with the lid.
doorways.
 Use power strips equipped with overload NEVER PUT WATER ON A GREASE FIRE
protection. Nearly half of all home fires originate in the kitchen

SMOKING Fire Calls Causes
 Cigarettes can smolder for hours.
 Don’t smoke inside. Nick’s Lechon, UI Phinma
 Discard smoking materials in a fire safe o Gas Vapor
container.
Molo Boulevard
 Use a proper, heavy ashtray which won’t tip
o Faulty Wire Connection (Tapping)
easily. Don’t improvise!
 Don’t smoke in bed.
McDonalds Marymart
 Don’t smoke if you’re tired, taking medications,
o Grease
or if you’ve been drinking or are otherwise
impaired.
Veterans Village
 After a party, check indoor and outdoor furniture
o Candle
and cushions for smoldering cigarette butts.
FIRE (Sunog, Apoy, Kalayo)

FLAMMABLE CHEMICALS
ELEMENTS IN FIRE SAFETY

Some chemicals can ignite and explode if not stored
properly
FIRE TETRAHEDRON
 Fuel
 The fire triangle was changed to a fire tetrahedron to
 Solvents
reflect this fourth element. A tetrahedron can be
 Cleaning agents
described as a pyramid which is a solid having four
 Thinners
plane faces. Essentially all four elements must be
 Adhesives
present for fire to occur, fuel, heat, oxygen, and a
 Paints
chemical chain reaction.
 Other liquids (alcohol, acetone, celluloids etc.)
 Make sure to always store flammable liquids in

their approved containers.
 Seal them properly and place them in the proper
location with the moderate temperature
indicated in its packaging.
FLAMMABLES
 Flammable gas - flammable range in air at
20 °C and a standard pressure of 101.3 kPa.
 Flammable liquid - flash point of not more than
93 °C.
 Flammable solids - readily combustible, or may
cause or contribute to fire through friction.

ACTIVE FIRE PROTECTION
 Active fire protection (AFP) is an integral part of fire
protection. AFP is characterized by items and/or
systems, which require a certain amount of motion
and response in order to work, contrary to passive
fire protection.
 All AFP systems are required to be installed and
maintained in accordance with strict guidelines in
order to maintain compliance with the local building
code and the fire code.
 AFP works alongside modern architectural designs
and construction materials and fire safety education
to prevent, retard, and suppress structural fires.
EXAMPLE OF HEAT TRANSFER
PASSIVE FIRE PROTECTION
 Passive fire protection (PFP) is components or
systems of a building or structure that slows or
impedes the spread of the effects of fire or smoke
without system activation, and usually without
movement.
 Contain a fire to the compartment of fire origin
 Slow a fire from spreading from the compartment of
fire origin
 Slow the heating of structural members
 Prevent the spread of fire through intentional
openings (e.g., doors, HVAC ducts) in fire rated
FIRE PROTECTION
assemblies by the use of a fire rated closure (e.g.,
fire door, fire damper)
ACTIVE (AFP)
 Prevent the spread of fire through penetrations (e.g.,
 Manual
holes in fire walls through which building systems
 Fire Blanket
such as plumbing pipes or electrical cables pass) in
 Fire Extinguisher
fire rated assemblies by the use of fire stops
 Standpipe
 Automatic Escape Routes

 Sprinkler system  When the smoke alarm sounds, you may only have
 Gaseous clean agent seconds or minutes to escape safely.
 Foam suppresion system  Have a meeting place for everyone to gather outside.
 Expansion (low, Medium, High)  Plan two ways out, in case one way is filled with
 Electronically controlled smoke or fire.
 Know your escape routes and practice them.
PASSIVE (AFP)
 Fire-resistance rated walls Fire Drills
 Fire-resistant glass  A simulation of evacuation that helps prepare
 Fire-resistance rated floors participants for an emergency situation
 Occupancy separation
 Closures (fire dampers) FIRE CODE of the Philippines
 Firestops  The Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of
 Grease ducts RA 9514, or the Fire Code of the Philippines, serves
 Cable coating as the framework that guides the BFP in the
 Spray fireproofing implementation of the law to ensure public safety
 Fireproof cladding and to promote economic development through the
 Enclosures prevention and suppression of all kinds of
destructive fires.
DepEd Memo Fire & Earthquake Drills SMOKE
 DepEd Order No. 53, s. 2022 - Mandatory  Carbon monoxide (CO) Poisoning caused by
Unannounced Earthquake and Fire Drills in Schools, inhaling combustion fumes. CO replaces the
requiring all public elementary and secondary oxygen (O2) in red blood cells preventing O2
schools to conduct unannounced earthquake and from reaching your tissues and organs.
fire drills every first and third week of every month.  Breathing smoke can kill you!
(Office of the Undersecretary for Operations  Smoke is toxic.
(OUOPS)  If you must escape through smoke,
 Get Low and Go under the smoke.
SMOKE ALARMS/DETECTORS
 An electronic fire-protection device that CARBON MONOXIDE (CO) POISONING
automatically senses the presence of smoke, as  High levels of CO can be fatal, causing death
a key indication of fire, and sounds a warning within minutes.
 Ionization
 Photoelectric
 combination
ALARM PLACEMENT AND MAINTENANCE

 Make sure you can hear the alarm in every
place in your home.
 They should be loud enough to wake you from
sleep.
 Check once a month.
 Change batteries once a year.
 Replace every 10 years.
Fire Alarms Detectors

SPRINKLER SYSTEM Smothering:
 An active fire protection method, consisting of a  limiting oxygen by preventing air from reaching the
water supply system providing adequate seat of the fire to allow the combustion process to
pressure and flowrate to a water distribution reduce the oxygen content in the confined
piping system, to which fire sprinklers are atmosphere until it extinguishes itself
connected.
SMOTHERING THE FIRE
A. Dry pipe systems  If the oxygen supply to the burning material can
 Dry pipe valve (a specialized type of check be sufficiently reduced, burning will cease.
valve) Prevent fresh air from reaching the seat of the
fire, allowing the combustion to reduce the
B. Wet pipe sprinkler systems oxygen content in the confined atmosphere until
 Automatic sprinklers and automatic alarm it extinguishes itself, for example by:
check valve  Snuffing out candles
 Smothering a pan with a fire blanket
EXTINGUISHING FIRE  Wrapping a person in a fire blanket
 Applying a blanket of foam over the
burning surface, thus separating the fuel
FIRE CONTROL MEASURES
from the air
 Cooling
 Smothering can also be achieved by removing
 Smothering
the oxygen in the atmosphere, thus
 Starving
extinguishing the fire, for example, by:
 Interrupting the Chain Reaction  Introducing carbon dioxide (CO2) to the
immediate vicinity of the fire
 Introducing an inert gas to the
Cooling: immediate vicinity of the fire, such as
 limiting temperature by increasing the rate at which through systems installed to protect
heat is lost from the burning material computer server rooms
COOLING THE FIRE Starving:

 One of the most common methods of  limiting fuel by removing potential fuel from the
extinguishing a fire is by cooling with water. vicinity of the fire, removing the fire from the mass of
 The rate at which heat is lost from the fire may combustible materials or by dividing the burning
be greater than the rate of heat production and material into smaller fires that can be extinguished
the fire will die away. more easily
 When water is applied, it undergoes changes as
it absorbs heat from the fire: STARVING THE FIRE
 Its temperature will rise  In some cases, a fire can be extinguished simply
 It may evaporate (boil) by removing the fuel source. This may be
 It may react chemically with the burning accomplished in a number of ways, such as
material stopping the flow of liquid or gaseous fuel,
 The properties of a good cooling agent are removing solid fuel in the path of the fire or
therefore: allowing the fire to burn until all of the fuel is
 High specific heat capacity (thermal consumed.
capacity)  Fires can be starved of fuel by removing
 High latent heat of vaporisation potential fuel from the vicinity of the fire, for
 High heat of decomposition example:
 Water is a good cooling agent because of its  Back burning forestry fires
high thermal capacity and latent heat of  Draining fuel from burning oil tanks
vaporisation. This, combined with the fact it is  Removing cargo from a ship's hold
available in large quantities, makes it by far the  Creating firebreaks in peat, heathland
most widely useful fire extinguishing agent. and forest fires

 Removing vehicles in the proximity of
the fire
 Creating firebreaks in thatch roofs
 Removing tyres not affected by the fire
from a tyre dump
Interrupting:
 inhibiting the chemical chain reaction by applying
extinguishing media to the fire that inhibit the
chemical chain reaction at the molecular level)
INTERRUPTING THE FIRE

 Dry powder, Bromochlorodifluoromethane (BCF)
and other halon extinguishers work by releasing
atoms that interrupt the chemical chain reaction.
They also create an inert gas barrier.
Parts of a Fire Extinguishers
Fire Extinguishers
 A fire extinguisher is a handheld active fire
protection device usually filled with a dry or wet
chemical used to extinguish or control small fires,
often in emergencies.
 It is not intended for use on an out-of-control fire that
could endanger the user (i.e., no escape route,
smoke, explosion hazard, etc.), or otherwise
requires resources, and/or expertise of a fire brigade.
Classification Fire Extinguishers
Other Types of Extinguishers

7. Make sure it is full, this can be done by just lifting the
extinguisher or you can weigh it
MOUNTING
1. Extinguisher Cabinet: mounted to the surface of
the wall, semi-recessed into the wall, or fully-
recessed into the wall. Can include a break-front
panel that has proven to be a deterrent to theft and FIREXT (FE)
tampering as to access the extinguisher requires
actually breaking the panel which would produce
sounds and possibly alert individuals nearby that
someone is tampering.
2. Hanger: specifically designed for the type of
extinguisher being mounted, which typically comes
with the extinguisher.
3. Bracket: a strap-type bracket that helps ensure that
the extinguisher does not become dislodged.
4. Signage and location visible from near and far away,
from different angles, and that signs protrude 90°
from the mounting wall making them highly visible
from both sides, especially if the cabinet is recessed
into the wall.
5. No permeant structure, an open door, or anything
piled that obstructs the view of the sign. Fire is FAST!
6. These signs are often made of corrosion resistant  There is little time to escape. It only takes
materials so they can be used in indoor and outdoor minutes for thick black smoke to fill your home
areas. Select models come with glow in the dark
properties so the extinguisher can be identified in Fire is DEADLY!
dark areas, at night, or in blackout situations.s  Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than
flames do
MAINTENANCE
1. Perform a monthly fire extinguisher inspection. Fire is DARK!
2. Confirm the extinguisher is visible, unobstructed,  Fire isn’t bright, it’s pitch black. Fire starts bright,
and in its designated location. but quicly produces black smoke and complete
3. Make sure everyone can easily access the fire darkness
extinguisher.
4. Verify the locking pin is intact and the tamper seal is Smoke is POISONOUS
unbroken.  Get low to the ground and go under the smoke
5. Ensure the pressure gauge is in the operable range to your exit to escape through smoke. GET LOW
or position. AND GO!
6. Examine the extinguisher for obvious physical
damage, corrosion, leakage, or clogged nozzle.

Fire is HOT! o Being on the ground floor and near an exit will
 Heat is more threatening than flames. Room make your escape easier.
temperature can rise to over 1,000˚F (537.778˚C)
at eye level
American Sign Language (ASL)
Fire can be SILENT!
 If there is a fire, pull the fire alarm on your way
to nofity everyone inside, the fire department
and the neighbors
Fight Fire with Fire!

 PASS Please House Emergency
 Use fire extinguisher on small firesonly
Fire Fighting is for Fire Fighters!

 When in doubt, get out!
Danger Call
Fire Nurse Disabled
Hurt/Pain Help Firefighter
Fire Safety for PWDs

 Have smoke alarms on every level of your home,
inside bedrooms and outside sleeping areas.
Interconnect your alarms, so when one sounds, they
all sound.
 If you are deaf or hard of hearing, use smoke alarms (tap wrist) Stuck/Trapped Victim
with a vibrating pad, flashing light or strobe light. PARAMEDIC
These accessories start when your alarm sounds.
 Test your alarms every month.
 Plan your escape around your activities
o Know two ways out of every room.
o If possible, live near an exit.
o You’ll be safest on the ground floor if you live
in an apartment building.
o If you live in a multistory home, sleep on the
first floor.

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UN STRATEGIES ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

WORLD CONFERENCE FOR DISASTER RISK Mitigation

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IMPLEMENTATION UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

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10. Each country bears the primary responsibility for

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 Use knowledge, innovation and education to

The Disaster Risk Management Model for SD from CGSS

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Principles Disaster Recovery and Rehabilitation

Recovery and rehabilitation is most effective:

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Hazard, exposure and vulnerability drive direct risk

Figure shows the common understanding that

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1.4.7. “The future we want”

B. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)

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Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote

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Sendai Framework for DRR 2015–2030 Global Goals

SEVEN TARGETS TO ACHIEVE BY 2030

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Objective  The following factors are often considered:

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SUMMARY: WHAT IS THE GREATEST RISK?

Examples of HVA Tools

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 HRVA may seem complicated, but in practice, it

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INTRODUCTION potential to occur in your community. For

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DUCK- COVER- HOLD ON Teacher:

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VITAL SIGNS  Solicit any signs of systemic infection or

Additional Vital Signs

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NORMAL RESPIRATORY RATE

Age Group Age Breaths per

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BLOOD PRESSURE POINTS

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Pupils - Equal, Round & Reactive to Light and

PUPIL SIZE MEASUREMENT

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Color Emotion Condition

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 Hypoglycemia, low blood sugar or glucose,

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Objective Primary assessment for all patient situations