Tips Regarding Campus Emergency Prepardness

By Margaret Hill


All members of institutions need to be equipped with the necessary skills to apply in the event they are confronted with dangerous situations. Responding to various perilous situations is of paramount importance, and therefore students as well as staff and generally entire college stakes need to take time to learn how to cope with such situations. Here are the key steps to follow in ensuring Campus Emergency Prepardness.

Preparing for such events involves adhering to various steps. Firstly, is ensuring there is optimum awareness. This is quite an obvious step, in that if people are properly aware of an impending criminal activity or emergency, they will be at a position to keep safe and also strive to mitigate the menace. It is imperative to avoid risky places, or employ mechanisms of avoiding danger such as staying as a group or pairs, parking at safe and lighted designations, being very vigilant especially at crowded public areas, and also taking note of all exits.

Step two is always feeding dependable personnel with any information about any questionable dealings or words by suspicious-looking people. If reports by a leading emergency agency based in United States are anything to go by, people who intend to wreck havoc by using weaponry are more likely to unknowingly announce their intentions, through weird doings or also words they speak. Such signs should therefore be critically taken into account.

This is because it is these signs that can result in the containment of a serious security threat. Therefore, in case you suspect anything to be peculiar and threat to security, consider informing someone reliable about it, and learn of their thought on the same. Consult any security guard, adviser or generally any acquaintance.

After sharing the information, you should also talk about it. Engage reasonable stakes in what should be done, to avert the crisis. Talk to people around you, for instance friends and relatives, colleagues, roommates, etc. You may also consider asking your faculty to spend some time in your class to discuss what to do, and extensively dig into the various options that there may be, for the classroom. People will thus contribute freely, and in the long run, a viable solution can be arrived at.

After the engagements and the solution formulated, the next consequent step is acting. It is very important to learn how to act in respect to a certain circumstance or situation. Running, hiding or fighting back are the three options of arresting emergencies, depending on the particular situation. Many security agencies based across USA have all endorsed these three as very efficient ways to maneuver emergencies. You can either run away from danger or if it is not possible, depending on the nature of the situation, you can hide.

Hiding should however be done in a safe, lockable and preferable silent place, with minimal activity. When these two steps are not possible, then you can consider fighting back. This is however very difficult and risky, since the gunman might outweigh you. You can use all your strength or any nearby item to disarm and neutralize the culprit.

Conclusively, proper disaster and emergency management skills are of significant importance to everybody living in and around populated settings such as universities and colleges. By knowing how to navigate through emergencies, safety is assured and instances of violence are also reduced drastically.




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