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 ALARM
A 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 RESPONSE
While 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 EVACUATION
Once 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 ASSEMBLY
At the designated evacuation
area, student must be
grouped together according to
the class where they belong
PHASE 5 HEAD COUNT
Teachers should check and
make sure all students are all
accounted for.
 PHASE 6 EVALUATION
An 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.