Emergency Preparedness: At Home

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Emergency PreparednessAt Home At Work

• Trina von Waldner, PharmD
• Director, Postgraduate Continuing Education
• College of Pharmacy

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Be Ready!

• Prepare an emergency kit.
• Include a kit for your car
• Create an emergency plan.
• Include an evacuation plan.
• Be informed know what disasters could affect
  you
• Get involved Volunteer!

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• Get a Kit
• Make a Plan
• Be Informed
• Get Involved

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Your Emergency Kit

• Food and Water
• First Aid Supplies
• Radio, Flashlight, Batteries
• Protective Gear
• Money
• Medications
• Specials Concerns
• infants, elderly, pets

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Food and Water

• 3 gallons of water per person in the home
• 3 day supply of non-perishable foods
• Manual can opener
• Plan for special needs elderly, infants
• Dont forget pets
• Rotate supplies every 6 months.
• Keep things you and your family eat!
• Emergency Rations

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Medications

• Keep a list of all your medications
• Refill prescriptions while you still have a
  14-day supply left
• Do not store medications in your emergency kit
• Wear a Medic-Alert Bracelet

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Other Health Items

• Whistle to call for help
• Face mask
• Hand sanitizer
• Chlorine bleach (dropper)
• Fire extinguisher
• First aid kit
• Basic first aid information

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For the Long Term

• Other Important items
• Keys, Glasses
• Basic tools
• Important legal documents
• Personal items
• Clothing bedding (seasonal changes)
• Personal hygiene supplies
• Toys, games, puzzles

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Make a Plan!

• Family Communications Plan
• Know where family members are
• Know how to contact family members
• Neighborhood Meeting Place
• Out-of-Town Contact
• Record of Family Health Information
• Family physician
• Pharmacy

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Evacuation Planning

• Plan for evacuating home
• Fire, gas leak, nearby incident
• Plan for evacuating work
• Work from home
• Shelter in place
• Disease outbreak, facility destruction
• Plan for evacuating your city or state

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Be Informed!
What Natural Disasters can strike Athens-Clarke
County?

• Tornadoes
• Floods
• Wildfire
• Drought

• Heat Waves
• Blackouts
• Winter Storms
• Earthquakes

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Man Made Disasters

• Accidental
• Train Derailment
• Chemical Spill
• Explosion / Fire
• Mass Casualty
• Construction Incident

• Intentional
• Chemical
• Biological
• Radiological
• Nuclear
• Explosive

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Get Involved!

• Volunteers needed
• At your worksite
• In your community
• For your State and Country
• Many opportunities available
• Volunteers and families treated first

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Same Rules Apply

• Get a Kit
• Have an emergency kit at your work site
• Make a Plan
• Have a plan for disaster or emergencies
• Be Informed
• Know your work site hazards
• Volunteer
• Lead the planning at work

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Ready at Work

• Potential building hazards
• Flood risk
• Chemicals
• Explosion / fire
• How to handle or where to get information
• Who to contact and how
• Building evacuation plan

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Prepare at Work

• What if you could not leave work?
• Site egress blocked
• Potential exposure
• What if you could not get to work?
• Work from home
• Use of technology
• Means of communication

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Volunteer!

• How many volunteers are needed on the UGA campus?
• Campus Population gt40,000
• For Natural Disaster 100 to 200
• For Terrorism Event 300 to 500
• What types of volunteers are needed?
• Citizen volunteers
• Public Safety volunteers
• Medical volunteers

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Informational Links

• http//www.ready.gov/index.html
• http//www.fema.gov/areyouready/
• http//www.ready.ga.gov/Prepare
• http//www.redcross.org/
• www.citizencorps.gov/programs/cert.shtm
• http//www.nsc.org/