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AT WORK AND SCHOOL
Like individuals and families, schools,
daycare providers, workplaces, neighborhoods and apartment
buildings should all have site-specific emergency plans.
Ask about plans at the places where your family spends the most
time: work, school and other places you frequent. If none exist,
consider volunteering to help develop one. You will be better
prepared to safely reunite your family and loved ones during an
emergency if you think ahead, and communicate with others in
advance.
Neighborhoods and Apartment Buildings
A community working together during an emergency makes sense.
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Talk to your neighbors
about how you can work together during an
emergency.
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Find out if anyone has specialized
equipment like a power generator, or expertise such
as medical knowledge, that might help in a crisis.
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Decide who will
check on elderly
or disabled neighbors.
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Make back-up plans for
children in case you can't get home in an emergency.
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Sharing plans and
communicating in
advance is a good strategy.
Schools and Daycare
If you are a parent, or guardian of an elderly or disabled
adult, make sure schools and daycare providers have emergency
response plans.
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Ask how they will
communicate
with families during a crisis.
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Ask if they
store
adequate food, water and other basic supplies.
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Find out if they are
prepared
to "shelter-in-place" if need be, and where they plan to go
if they must get away.
Employers
If you are an employer, make sure your workplace has a building
evacuation plan that is regularly practiced.
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Take a critical look at your
heating, ventilation and air conditioning system to
determine if it is secure or if it could feasibly be
upgraded to better filter potential contaminants, and be
sure you know how to turn it off if you need to.
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Think about what to do if your employees
can't go home.
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Make sure you have appropriate
supplies on hand.
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