DISASTER
Kenya 's long history of crises- terrorist bombing, traffic accidents, building tragedies and floods has had a major impact on the economy of the country. Ironically the almost 25 history seems to have had no lessons learnt.
We should not always be learners but should learn from past mistakes to reduce the enormous waste of resources and accompanying human misery. Many institutions have continued to entertain inability to learn from hindsight and that is why disasters keep on recurring.
PHAMA Foundation realizes that good management is risk management and has opened up avenues of better risk management and avoidance of major accidents by helping communities to overcome the inhibitions to learning from past experiences. The organization is building the capacity of CBOs to be able to address this phenomenon.
Training
PHAMA Foundation believes that organizations need to be well trained in order to develop acceptable emergency response plans to prepare for natural or manmade disasters. Emergencies occur everyday. With the specter of terrorism, insecurity, fire, earthquake, flood and other nature and manmade disasters, the dangers facing communities, employees, facilities, and operations are perhaps greater than they have been.
To mitigate these threats, organizations must have professionally trained personnel who are able to detect threats and determine what effective measures/ countermeasures to be taken whilst making best use of internal resources as well as external emergency services. Emergency response planning is the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and organized team(s) designed to stabilize the effects of an incident.
Christian Juma of PHAMA Foundation training SPLA, Sudan Police and the community in South Sudan on community Policing
Failure to train, develop, and maintain adequate response plans has always been our undoing as a nation and has resulted in unnecessary damage to property, injury and death of persons. It has even crippled some organizations.
PHAMA Foundation team is staffed with professional trainers who help organizations develop the capability to respond effectively to whatever peril that threatens people property, operations, or the environment. Our trainers have vast hand-on UN Peacekeeping and major industries experience and their unique perils. Many of our partners are involved in the design and development of standards for security technology systems disaster and emergency management. This knowledge is enabling us to stay in the forefront of a rapidly evolving field with new codes, standards, and best practices. Our training includes;
(i) Crime Prevention
- Crime Reduction Basic
- Home Security Domestic Survey
- Community Policing
- Disaster Preparedness
(ii) Terrorism Countermeasures
- Criminal information/intelligence
- Threat analysis
- Operation security
- Personal security
- Physical security
- Authority and jurisdiction
- Planning crisis management
- Performing crisis management
(iii) Bomb Threat Planning & Management
- Introduction to Bomb Threat Planning.
- Bombing history and current trends.
- Bomber Profiles.
- Explosions and its effects.
- Why have a bomb threat plan.
- Risk assessment.
- Responsibility and Liability.
- Facility Vulnerability assessment/ survey.
- Protective measures.
- Contingency plan.
- Evacuation plan.
- Searches.
- Damage control.
- Employee training.
- Managing the emergency.
(iv) Protection against Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Attack
- Introduction to threat
- Agent characteristics
- Detection and equipment
- Decontamination
- Evacuation procedures
- Condone and control of NBC incident
- Responder action
(v) Disaster Preparedeness
- Operational requirements for disaster management
- Contingency planning
- Information needs assessment in disaster management
- Emergency needs assessment
- Capacity building
- Communication skills
- Policy and institutional structures of disaster management
- Action plan
(vi) Fire Management & Control
- Chemistry of fire
- Fire fighting equipments
- Fire fighting agents
- Special risks and hazards
- Fire fighting in a sprinkler building
- Principles of fire fighting
- Rescue operations
(vii) Protection Against Courier and Mail Bombs
- Characteristics of courier delivered device attacks
- Physical security
- Access control
- Active threat awareness
- Distinguishing features of a mail bomb
- Types of mail bombs
- Establishing screening programs
- Response procedures
(viii) Protection Against Vehicle and Large-Scale Bomb
- Characteristics of conventional Large-Scale Vehicle bombs
- Proactive countermeasures
- Suspicious vehicle response
- Types of vehicle attacks
- IEDS installed on target vehicles
- Defense against transit threat
(ix) Post Blast Response Procedure
- Localized bombings
- Localized incident response
- Conventional Large-scale attacks
- Conventional large-scale incident response
