Community Group Newsletter 4: Groups with Meeting Places

This is the fourth of four e-mails prior to the ShakeOut and the topic for today is

GROUPS WITH REGULAR MEETING PLACES OR PROPERTIES

People need to be concerned about the risk involved in being in the places that they spend the most time. It follows for most people that they need to look firstly at their houses and secondly at their workplaces. After that it may be that a community group meeting place or property may feature high on the list, and especially so if it is an overnight venue.

If this is the case then the group should consider actions to reduce risk as if it were a regular home. Some ideas can be found at

http://www.eq-iq.org.nz/eq-intro/eq-beprep/eq-beprep-before/eq-beprep-before-qs-over.aspx and follow links to each item to get detail

and

http://www.getthru.govt.nz/web/GetThru.nsf/web/BOWN-7GY5TP?OpenDocument for ideas about finding safe places to get to in a shake.

Look after your members and shake-proof your meeting places.

Best wishes for your ShakeOut. Dont forget to get some photos or videos and add them to the website to share with others.

Chris Manuel
West Coast ShakeOut Coordinator
www.shakeout.org.nz

The information in this e-mail is the opinion of the author, after significant research. If you are making decisions based upon it, please take the time to follow the links and check up on the details that will affect your decision. Copies of this and previous e-mails will be available shortly on the website http://www.shakeout.org.nz, so if you have only just registered you can see what you have missed.