Student Tribune
Celebrate National Preparedness Month
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 Wednesday, September 12 from 12 noon to 1 pm in The
Forum Room, Building 3, Room 130 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
08/28/2018