HOW TO CONDUCT

AN EARTHQUAKE

DRILL IN SCHOOL

OBJECTIVES

1. To ensure the safety of parents, students,

teachers and staff during and after a

damaging earthquake.

2. To help school administrators and their

disaster action groups to design a specific

response plan of the school for

earthquake.

OBJECTIVES

3. To test various elements of the response

plan designed by the School Disaster

Management Committee (SMDC)

4. To train teachers, school staff and student

on how to practice proper action and

response during earthquakes, and

STAGE 1

PLANNING/ORGANIZING

THE EARTHQUAKE DRILL

A. Form a School Disaster

Management Committee

MEMBERS OF THE SDMC

SHOULD EVALUATE THE SCHOOL

1. Have the following information available yearly.

2. Acquire the most recent school ground lay out or plan/map.

3. Obtain a building lay out/floor plan for each building.

B. Members of the SDMC

should

conduct Building Watching

Exercise

1. Observe hazardous areas and practices

within the school premises.

2. Suggest correction or improvement of

current set up.

3. Asses the structural integrity of the school

building

STAGE 2

DEVELOPING THE SCHOOL

EARTHQUAKE

EVACUATION PLAN

After identifying the safe and unsafe spots, the next

step is to develop the School Earthquake Evacuation

Plan

1. The School Earthquake Evaluation Plan should have provision.

2. Determine if there is sufficient open spaces for all.

3. Consider number of students.

4. Each class should have a assigned specific evacuation site.

5. Determine the flow of traffic.

6. Indicate by arrows, the flow of student

evacuation.

7. Prepare final evacuation route and orient all

the teachers and school staff about this.

8. Prepare Earthquake Survival Kits.

9. Prepare First Aid Kit

STAGE 3

ORIENTATION PRIOR TO

THE CONDUCT OF

EARTHQUAKE DRILL

A. Prepare the students a week before the

scheduled earthquake drill. For each class,

instruct the homeroom adviser to do the

following

1. Allot a specific time for lecture

2. Conduct a classroom observation activity.

⚫ Draw floor plan of classroom

⚫ Identify the safe spot in the classroom

⚫ Identify dangerous spots

⚫ When dangerous areas have been identified, ask the students what to do to correct it.

3. Introduce to the student the suggested

evacuation route.

4. Introduce to the student the assigned open

space.

5. Assign somebody who will be in charge in

making sure that the door is open during

the shaking.

B. THE MAIN CONCERN

DURING AN ONGOING

SHAKING IS HOW TO

PROTECT ONESELF

1. Give specific instruction on what to do

during an earthquake

⚫ Introduce duck, cover and hold

➢ Take cover

➢ Watch out for falling objects

➢ Keep calm, do not panic

2. Give specific instruction about what to do

as soon as the shaking stops

⚫ Be alert

⚫ Listen to teachers instruction

⚫ Walk out of the classroom in orderly

manner

⚫ While walking along corridor to the

nearest exit of the building, be alert for

falling debris

⚫ Don’t talk, don’t go back, don’t bring

things

⚫ Don’t run, don’t push

⚫ Quietly proceed to the evacuation area

⚫ Never go back to the building

3. For the teachers, make sure all students

are accounted for once in the designed

evacuation area

STAGE 4

ACTUAL CONDUCT OF

EARTHQUAKE DRILL

1. Prior to the scheduled drill, inform

neighborhood regarding the drill.

2. Identify and assign observers.

3. For the actual drill.

Assumption

⚫ 1 minute strong shaking signified by 1

minute siren or bell

⚫ Person should not stand

⚫Building may have damage but no collapse.

⚫No immediate assistance is available.

⚫Possible injuries, fear, panic among students

and teachers.

➢Give instructions/ reiterate the what to do’s

➢Once the siren is heard.

➢Participant should perform one minute

duck, cover and hold

➢ After the one minute siren, student should proceed to designated area

➢ Teacher should make a head count

4. While the drill is ongoing, observers should take note on the performance of the teachers and students

5. Observers will give there comment

6. To be effective, earthquake drill should be done regularly

PHASES OF AN

EARTHQUAKE DRILL

PHASE 1 ALARMA pre-arranged signal such as

siren/bell should be known to

all. During the drill, the

siren/bell indicates

earthquake/shaking. Students

and teachers will be alerted by

the signal.

PHASE 2 RESPONSEWhile the siren/bell is ongoing,

everyone should move away

from window, glass or light

fixtures. In this phase every one

should perform “duck, cover and

hold” under desk, tables or

chairs. Remain in this position

until shaking stops

PHASE 3 EVACUATIONOnce the “shaking” stops,

teachers and students should

evacuate the school building

and proceed using pre-

determined routes to go to

identified evacuation area.

PHASE 4 ASSEMBLYAt the designated evacuation

area, student must be

grouped together according to

the class where they belong

PHASE 5 HEAD COUNTTeachers should check and

make sure all students are all

accounted for.

PHASE 6 EVALUATIONAn evaluation of the drill must

be conducted to identify

problems encountered during

the drill and how this can be

corrected in the future

earthquake drills.

EARTHQUAKE DRILL EVALUATION FORM

Place of drill__________________ Date______________________

Time evacuation Started_________ Time Evacuation Ended_______

Evaluator:____________________ Location During the drill______

• Is the siren loud enough to be heard by all the drill participants? Yes/No If no, please elaborate_________________________________

• Did the drill participants practice the “Duck, Hold and Cover” technique during the alarm phase (while the siren is being sounded)? Yes/ No

If No, please elaborate_______________________________________

3. Did the drill participants evacuate during the Alarm Phase or waited for the siren to stop before evacuating? Yes/No If no please elaborate__________________________________________________

4. Did the drill participants follow their designated evacuation area?

Yes/No If No, please elaborate___________________________

5. Did drill participants (A) run, (B) walk casually or (C) or walk faster

than the normal during the evacuation phase? Please specify A,B, C

6. Did the drill participants bring bring any first aid kit or any item

noticeable during evacuation phase? Yes/No If No please

elaborate_______________________________________________

7. Did the drill participants conduct the head count during the head

count phase? Yes/No If No please elaborate_____________

8. Is the evacuation area big enough to accommodate the evacuees?

Yes/No If No please elaborate___________________________

9. Any other problems observed during the drill that might need to be

addressed? Please elaborate________________________________

10. How long did it take for all the drill participants to vacate the

building and time to reach the designated area__________________

11. Did the drill participants (A) stay in evacuation area, (B) move to

other place, ( C ) went back to the building without instruction?

Please specify A, B, C

12. Observed number of drill participants (estimate will do)__________

13. Any untoward incident observed during the

drill?__________________________________________________

INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM

(ICS)

-

- is a management system used to organize emergency

response and designed to offer scalable response to

incidents of any magnitude.

- is designed to grow and shrink along with the incident ,

allowing more resources to be smoothly added when

required or released when no longer needed.

-provides a way of coordinating the efforts of agencies and

resources as they work together toward safely responding ,

controlling and mitigating and emergency incident.

-ensures that efforts are coordinated to efficiently

provide emergency services and aid to victims of

disasters.

- Operations of all kinds must have a system and an

organization to be successful.

- used for all hazards and has been proven effective for

responding to all types of incident.

(Hazardous materials, Fire , Mass Casualty Incidents,

Natural Disasters, Pest Eradication Programs, Planned

Events , Epidemics, Accidents, Crime Related and

Terrorism.)

ICS is implemented at the early stages of incident.

Guiding Principles

-vital component of disaster management at all DCC levels

-tool for command, control and coordination response.

-on scene management concept.

-means of determining resources at operational level.

-observes unity and chain of command.

-organization is flexible and modular.

-span of control should be from 5-7 teams.

-should an event require the activation of the Disaster

Operation Center / Emergency Operations Center, the ICS

must be integrated with it.

In the event of emergency, the following

steps should be followed:

H- Hazard Identification

E- Evaluate Response

A- Assemble Work Zone

R- Run the Incident

T- Terminate the incident

Key Players:

-Incident Commander

-Safety

-Information

-Liaison

-Planning

-Operations

-Logistics

-Finance and Admin-

Who should be the Incident

Commander?

-rapid / slow onset of natural disaster – LCE or designated officer.

-rapid onset natural disaster

a.two or more barangay - Mayor

b. two or more Municipalities- Governor

-Man-made/Technological – First on scene responder

Con’t

-transfer of command will be triggered when there is a

threat to life, environment and properties.

-absence of LCE, trained IC personnel takes place.

-LCE assumes symbolic IC if not qualified; designated

representative of agency concerned acts as IC.