[cr-india] Community Radio and Disasters

[George Lessard]

Disasters: Is Your Station Ready?
http://www.rwonline.com/reference-room/special-report/02_rwrf_disaster.shtml

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Disaster planning put to good use
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0OUK/is_10_10/ai_n6220517

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MediaDisasterPrep.com: This site, which specializes in "helping 
broadcasters bring order to chaos," is run by Don Watson, a veteran 
broadcast consultant. Here you will find articles and tips.

This FREE website was created to help broadcasters who may never 
before have faced a challenge this complex or dynamic. In the weeks 
and months to come, we hope to offer tips for analyzing threats, 
evaluating risks, creating preparedness & response strategies and 
implementing action plans to assure the safety of your personnel, the 
integrity of your assets and the continuity of your operations

  MediaDisaterPrep.com was created BY broadcasters FOR broadcasters; 
our experts are regularly quoted in the industry's most respected 
publications, and lead disaster preparedness and contingency planning 
seminars for broadcast professionals from around the world.
http://www.mediadisasterprep.com/

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Contingency Planning Overview: Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations
The Need For Contingency Planning

In spite of vigilant efforts to control loss and minimize accidents, 
some hazards are not within your control. Accidents can and do occur, 
and when they occur, our natural instinct is survival in the face of 
potentially crippling accidental losses. The most effective and 
logical way to survive an accident is to prepare in advance. 
Businesses unfamiliar with proper crisis management procedures may 
even compound an already unfavorable situation. Prior planning can 
prevent poor performance, once an accident happens.

Another external factor influencing the decision to implement a plan 
is the potential for loss of public good will. The longer a facility 
is closed, the greater the risk that another station will capture 
some of your listening or viewing audience.

Consider, too, the potential for public liability and injury to 
employees. Employers have a duty to provide a safe work environment, 
and are responsible for injuries to workers under the workers' 
compensation system. A business may also be liable for third party 
claims from injury to the members of the public. This is why some 
insurance companies advocate that some type of preparedness system be 
in place.

http://www.nab-aon.com/Risk_Management/rm_ContingencyPlanning.jsp

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Disasters Don't Have to Be Disastrous: A Step-by-Step Community 
Prevention and Disaster Relief Guide for Broadcasters. 1998. 12 pp. 
Free. Copies can be requested from Jennifer Livengood, National 
Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N Street, N.W., Washington, DC 
20036; (202) 429-5448; (202) 429-5410.
For broadcasters, natural disasters pose the challenge of staying on 
the air, if circumstances allow, in order to provide important 
information regarding news, weather, safety, survival, recovery, and 
other essential communications. This guidebook for broadcasters 
provides tips for building a disaster-resistant community, 
identifying risks, undertaking prevention planning, keeping a 
community informed during a disaster, working with local or state 
offices of emergency management, gathering information, understanding 
the types of information people need, creating a disaster 
communications plan, and broadcasting through a crisis. It also 
provides guidance on what to do after a disaster, including finding 
out what assistance is available, drawing attention to opportunities 
for aid, and organizing a relief drive. It includes scripts for 
several public service announcements stations can use to help people 
prepare for such events.

Via
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/maro99/maro99d.htm

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Understanding Vulnerability: South Asian Perspectives. John Twigg and 
Mihir R. Bhatt, Editors. 1998. 84 pp. $25.00, plus $5.00 shipping. 
Copies can be purchased from Stylus Publishing, LLC, P.O. Box 605, 
Herndon, VA 20172-0605; (800) 232-0223 or (703) 661-1581; fax: (703) 
661-1501.
This book was published under the auspices of Duryog Nivaran, a 
network of individuals and organizations working in South Asia to 
promote disaster mitigation (see the Observer, Vol. XX, No. 5, p. 
11). A combined effort of Duryog Nivaran and the Intermediate 
Technology Development Group in the United Kingdom, Understanding 
Vulnerability focuses on the issues that determine exposure to 
natural disasters in this region. It includes case studies of poor 
women in India who face a wide range of natural and human-caused 
hazards; Nepali villagers who live under the permanent threat of 
mountain floods and landslides; and village society in Sri Lanka's 
Dry Zone, for which drought is a persistent hazard. The final essay 
discusses ways of understanding vulnerability by learning from 
vulnerable people.

Via
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/maro99/maro99d.htm

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