Today I had a chance to talk to staff members at a major hospital, a massage school, a hardware warehouse, an airport, a restaurant and a real estate office with a hundred agents. What did they all have in common? they were scheduling an Emergency Preparedness meeting. Everyone needs an emergency preparedness meeting a couple of times a year and some companies have never had one.
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What should you do in the event of an emergency?
In an earthquake should you:
A. Get under something sturdy
B. Get in the door way
C. Run
When I was a kid we were trained to get in the doorway or under something. After a few decades of studying the results of this training what the experts found out, was that people were being smashed by doors in earthquakes because they were in the doorway. Smashed fingers, door knobs in the temple etc.. has lead experts to change the advice and the answer to the multiple choice question is
A. Get under something sturdy.
Many people just do not know what to do to get started and so they never get started. I advise you to get a 2 minute “keep me alive bag” so you have at least begun. Take a gallon size zip lock bag, add band-aids and any prescription medicine you need, goto the pantry and add peanut butter, crackers and water. Now put this bag under the seat in your car so you can reach it in the event you are pinned in your car and you can not move, you will be able to stay alive. A little more effort and you can put together something like the Grab and go bag pictured below.
This is an example of a 3 day kit for 2 people. It can be used by one person for six days also.
