Description:
The “Get Ready” website from the National Emergencies Management Agency provides information on risks in New Zealand as well as advice on how to prepare for an emergency. It is designed in a simple and appealing way with pictures and videos that also address children. The website describes different types of hazards such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, storms, tsunamis, and volcanic activity and how to prepare for them, encounter them and what to do once they have occurred. The different areas of life at work, school and home are highlighted and for each of these places there is guidance on how to identify risks and create your own emergency plan. The focus is on knowing the dangers, being prepared, and engaging in preparing oneself, one's entourage and one's society for crises.
The solution could help to address the following needs of first responders and authorities:
Improve preparedness level among citizens
Improve autonomy, coping abilities, and proactiveness of citizens
Communicate with or alert citizens