The front-end work for building the simulatoripta.demokritos.gr/pre_emergencies/site...

The front-end work for building the simulator

Zoe Nivolianitou, Vana Synodinou, Apostolos Paralikas

NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”-Lab.of Ind. Safety & Syst. Eng.

Turin meeting, 26 and 27-Feb-2007

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NCSR DEMOS, Torino meeting, 26, 27 Feb-2007

DEMOS’s role in the project

� In the first year, the role of DEMOS in the PRE-EMERGENCIES project has

been the verification of policies of emergency response applied

to both mounting risks (floods) and

sudden risks (tunnel accidents) in the Greek Territory.

� It’s efforts have been devoted to:

• Writing down the operative procedures in case of crisis both among

institutional forces and voluntary organisations and the coordination

among them ;

• Taking interviews and developing indices describing their performance.

• Disseminating Pre-Emergencies project.

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DEMOS’s achievements in the 1st year

1. Collection and analysis of 5 intervention protocols, namely:

a) Road emergency in Egnatia Odos highway

b) Tunnel Emergency in Attiki Odos Athens ring road.

c) Tunnel Emergency in Attiko Metro in Athens

d) Emergency in the construction phase of Attiko Metro in Athens

e) Flooding emergency in the greater Attica region

2. Presentation of the Xenokratis Greek Civil Emergency Plan together with a collective report of protocol analysis

3. Leading of 16 interviews with equivalent Emergency response Organisation

4. Organizing a Greek Conference with the participation of Volunteers’organisations and national Civil Protection Authorities

5. Proposal and evaluation of Indices to be used in the simulator

6. Organisation of a Greek website for promoting Pre-Emergencies in Greece

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intervention protocols

Types of Documents produced

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Interviews taken in Greece

� Several organisations (both volunteers’ and institutional) have been

conducted and 16 of them have been interviewed for their activities

• The profile of these organisations refers both to prevention and to

management crisis and response in the cases of emergencies;

• The main axes of the interviews contain

• Organisation type and size

• Services provided by the organisation pre- and during an emergency

• Description of intervention protocol

• Methods and means of intervention

• Training scheme and co-operation level

• Description of successful and failed operations

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Profile of interviewed organisations

Organizations (16 in number 100%)

Type of organization:

State Body 12.5

Voluntary 68.75

Voluntary+ Municipalities 18.75

Operational Range:

Regional range 43.75

National (and International range) 56.25

Number of active members:

Less than 50 12.5

Between 50-100 18.75

Between 100-1000 31.25

More than 1000 37.5

Type of intervention:

Prevention 6.25

Prevention and Operation 56.25

Operation 31.25

Other 6.25

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Some addresses….

1) General Secretariat for Civil Protection of Greece

General Secretariat for Civil Protection of Greece

Dionissiou Joanna

Email: [email protected]

2) Fire Brigade of Greece

Mr. Stamoulis- Mr. Falaras -Mr. Sotirakos

Email : [email protected]

3) Hellenic Red Cross

I) Nursing Division

Ms Mavraki, Ms L. Tsitsou


II) Social Welfare Division

Ms Papadopoulou, Ms A. Kentistou


III) Samaritans Volunteers Corp of Hellenic Red Cross

Mr. A. Gerassimatos

E-mail: [email protected]

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Reports on the Interviews taken

Transcription

from Greek to

English

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Indices taken from Greek Interviews

Indices evaluated by stakeholders

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Types of indices

The main categories of indices are the following 9 with several sub-chapters:

1. Type of organisation

2. Description of Organisation Role

3. Feed in Communication

4. Description of Intervention

5. Human factors

6. Training

7. Protocols of Intervention

8. Communication with affected people

9. Critical moments of the intervention.

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Evaluation of indices

A first evaluation among the participating organisations has shown that:

1. Type of aid (e.g. Nursing, firefighting etc)

2. Competence of personnel

3. Availability of means

4. Communication capacity

5. Motivation,

6. Protocol existence and

7. Co-ordination of forces

Rank high among the representatives of the various organisations.

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Success Stories

9 success stories reported from the organisations

……. It took us 3 hours from the time we received the report to gather a team of 12 persons as well as the necessary equipment. The team members were selected mainly according to their mountain range experience. They were called in by mobile phone which is the fastest communications means. The meeting point was the toll post on the National Road which we were going to use. The team used 5 members’ private cars which travelled in convoy………

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Greek Conference with Emergency Response Organisations

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Main Conclusions of the Conference (1)

1. The education of the volunteers’ groups’ members should be surveyed by a certified organization either Greek or European.

2. The collaboration with the governmental groups of intervention in the case of an emergency, such as the Police, the Fire Brigades and the Civil Protection Authorities in general, should be established and regulated.

3. An electronic database should be formed containing all data related to volunteers’ groups, organized at prefecture level.

4. The members of all volunteers’ groups should provide a complete personal file containing medical examinations, non-condemn certificate, results of psychological tests, so as to prove their ability to operate correctly within the team.

5. Extensive common fieldwork in the form of simulation exercises should take place all over the country, aiming at the fine-tuning of the operational skills of the different organizations, the closer acquaintance of their members and the formation of a COMMON intervention PROTOCOL.

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Main Conclusions of the Conference (2)

6. Insurance for all volunteers acting in rescuing and/or Forest fire extinction, if these operations are characterized as dangerous.

7. Free use of all public transportation means in the case of an emergency for the certified volunteers and 50% reduction in the case of an exercise.

8. Evaluation of the various volunteers’ groups against criteria such as: members number, members’ certification, intervention capacity either locally or in different locations, even abroad.

9. Enabling the telecommunications among the volunteers’ groups and the competent authorities through common radio frequencies in UHF or VHF

10.Volunteers Identity Card, registered also in the National Registry of volunteers’ groups for quicker and safer identification of members.

11.Special plates for the volunteer groups private cars, also registered also in the National Registry of volunteer groups, for facilitating their moving in the case of an emergency.

12.Creation of web sites for all registered also in the National Registry of volunteer groups aiming at the wide spreading of this mentality and the better communication with equivalent groups all over Europe.

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Analysis of Greek Legislation

� Civil Protection in Greece:

• Law 2344/1995: Creation of the Civil Protection Secretariat, within

the Ministry of Interior

• Law 3013/2002, article 3: Agents of Civil protection in Greece

comprise the Fire Brigades, the Police, the Coast Guards, the

medical intervention, the armed forces, the anti-seismic organisation

and the prefectures.

• Presidential Decree 151/03-06-2004:Internal Organisation Scheme

of the Civil Protection Secretariat.

� Floods:

• Law 3339/10-05-2005: Collaboration protocol between Greece and

Turkey by the creation of a mixed intervention team in cases of

natural disasters.

• Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the

Council on the management of floods (COM(2006)15)

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Flooding in a tri-national point

BOOK “The battle of Evros”: A

model for crisis management in a

region where three national

authorities have to co-operate to

avoid a flooding of the river Evros

disaster.

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The Greek web site: www. ipta.demokritos.gr/pre_emergencies

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DEMOS’s activities in the 2nd year

• Finalization of Indices evaluation and proposal for the simulator.

• Actual Participation in the simulator construction.

• Strengthening of the relationships with the Greek voluntary community through the organisation of a second broader Conference in DEMOS’s premises.

• Participation in the preparation of the scenarios to be used in

• the fieldwork in Italy.

• Actual participation in the fieldwork in Italy.

• Validation of the simulator results by its fine-tuning and application in Greek cases.

• Continue the dissemination activity of the Pre-Emergencies project in Greece (2nd conference in DEMOS).

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