Individual Emergency Preparedness edit
What is Individual Emergency Preparedness? edit
Individual Emergency Preparedness are the measures taken by ordinary individuals (citizens) to prepare for unexpected emergencies. Unexpected emergencies can be natural or man-made. Examples of natural emergencies are severe weather events such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, as well as medical emergencies like heart attacks, strokes, injuries as a result of accidents, etc. Examples of man-made emergencies are terrorist attacks, active shooter incidents, employee violence, home invasions, assault, rape, robbery, car jacking, and vehicle accidents. These can happen to individuals and does happen more frequently than most people realize. Be prepared by educating yourself and increasing your situational awareness.
There are several additional levels of emergency planning and preparation that can affect people at the individual level. Federal, state, and local governments create emergency preparedness plans that include both disaster preparation and response plans. Businesses create emergency preparedness plans designed foremost to protect lives and property, and then to mitigate business continuity risks.
There are several organizations you can go to for information on how to prepare, respond to, and recover from most commonly experience unexpected events.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) edit
FEMA's Mission edit
FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards.[1]
FEMA's Document and Resource Library literally has thousands of documents and publications that address the full spectrum of emergency preparedness planning. The site can be a bit overwhelming due to the number of audiences FEMA produces publications.
Ready.gov edit
The U.S. government the Ready Campaign in February 2003. Ready is a National public service campaign designed to educate and empower the American people to prepare for, respond to and mitigate emergencies, including natural and man-made disasters. The goal of the campaign is to promote preparedness through public involvement.
Ready and its Spanish language version Listo ask individuals to do four key things: (1) stay informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses (2) make a family emergency plan and (3) build an emergency supply kit, and (4) get involved in your community by taking action to prepare for emergencies.[2]
Ready.gov has a huge library of resources to help people prepare for virtually any unexpected emergency. It also includes a section of educational materials for kids, parents, and educators that includes reference material and games.
Prepper Skills edit
Prepper Skills - www.prepper-skills.com - offers free content designed to promote emergency preparedness. Prepper Skills is a private company created to help people educate themselves in emergency preparedness in order to protect themselves and their families. It was created by retired U.S. Special Operations veterans to transfer their knowledge in crisis planning and survival skills to people who may not possess such knowledge. Its primary goal is to reduce the devastating effects that unexpected events (e.g. hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, active shooter situations, and many other unexpected events) can have on people by encouraging them to think about these possibilities, then create an action plan that mitigates their personal risk. This is accomplished by providing high-quality content (instructional articles and videos) designed to provide emergency planning advice and guidance.
Prepper Skills also has a Reference Library with free, downloadable publications to help educate people and help them prepare for a wide variety of unexpected emergencies.