Student Tribune

Celebrating National Preparedness Month-Downtown Campus

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has designated the month of September as Celebrate National Preparedness Month. In the spirit of community preparedness, the Department of Public Safety invites the college community to a brown bag seminar on Monday, September 10 from 12 noon to 1 pm in Room 400 of the Downtown Campus for a presentation on the Emerging Trends in Emergency Preparedness.

Emergencies can occur at any given time and your ability to successfully navigate the unknown rests primarily on your personal level of preparedness.

Topics for discussion include:
• How you should apply an "All Hazards Approach" to emergency preparedness.
• How best to prepare for potential/actual power outages.
• Shelters: When are shelters your best option.
• Emergency Medical Care: What to do when the hospital emergency room can't accommodate you?
• Weather Reports: What do they really tell you and how well do you understand them.
• Weather Radios: Should you own one and if so which one should you own.
• Hazardous Travel: How best to navigate hazardous travel conditions and when it is best to stay where you are and not travel.
• How to construct both stationary and travel friendly "Go-Kits."
• Emergency Communications: Do you know how best to communicate and obtain information when cellular or landline service are unreliable and/or inoperable?
• Websites and Apps: Where can you receive additional information and training?

For additional information regarding the above presentation or to receive individual, group, or Department training on Active Threat, Emergency Communications, and Emergency Preparedness please contact MCC Public Safety Emergency Manager Chuck DiSalvo via e-mail at cdisalvo@monroecc.edu or via extension x2926.
DiSalvo, Charles
Public Safety
09/05/2018

DiSalvo, Charles
Public Safety
08/28/2018