Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds Would you know what to do in an emergency? Are you prepared for the unexpected? What would happen if you couldn’t go home or you found yourself stranded abroad? In today’s uncertain world, keeping yourself and others safe is important, as is a good understanding of how likely an emergency situation is to occur. You can control how prepared you are, and this may help you if you’re ever involved in an emergency. Emergencies happen daily worldwide. However, hearing about them depends on your location and the circumstances of the emergency. This course has been designed to help you as an individual develop your own personal resilience and to understand the what ifs.
Skip to 0 minutes and 53 seconds The course takes you through the steps of planning how to deal with them, explains how to prioritise them, and hopefully will help lessen the effects to you, your family, and your community. Within the course, we look at the likelihood and consequences of the types of emergencies you may encounter from threats including terrorism and cyber to the hazards such as flood and health pandemics. We look at how to assess the risk so you can understand likelihood. We then ask you to consider the consequences on you and your local community. The course shows you how to plan and take responsibility for your own personal safety, particularly within your home. Do you know how to get out in an emergency?
Skip to 1 minute and 37 seconds What would you try to save? And who can you go to for help? Throughout the course, you will learn to be prepared, be resilient, and produce an emergency plan to support you in times of need, against most emergencies or situations. This has been produced by the Emergency Planning College who are the UK’s leading centre for organisational resilience, delivering emergency and crisis management, business continuity, cyber resilience, event and public safety training, exercising and consultancy services. Our highly experienced industry leading experts work closely with organisations of all sizes to deliver our services to both public and private sectors in the UK and across the world.