[00:00:00] :  this. This this show is brought to you by safety FM. Warning. The following broadcast contains adult language, adult content, frank safety discussions and stories that might sound unbelievable. But believe me, every one of those stories is true. We didn't start the safety war, but we are going to fight to win it for our families, for our communities, for our workplaces and for our lives the safety war starts. Now. Welcome to the september 1st 2022 edition of Safety Wars. We're talking about disaster preparation month, 2022 this month, like what we've been doing for the last five years in one form or another. I know the podcast just started last year, but before that with all my clients, I used to do something every year, every day. An email a day, something like that for disaster preparation month. What are we going to do? We're gonna talk about disasters for the whole month and probably into october if things go well and we get a lot of good feedback. I'm gonna start off by saying this. If you have any questions, if you have any suggestions, if you would like to have topics uh talked about and discussed on disasters, contact me via social media, whatever platform you're listening on. Um send me an email jim at safety awards dot com or a text message at eight for 5 to 695772. I like to talk about disasters and I label them in four different categories. The first category. And by the way, no one else does this as far as I know, but it's easier for me to discuss. And it's easier for you to understand number one, There are four different types of disasters. No one 0-24 hours. Those are your short term disasters. Maybe you lost power for the night, maybe you had a fire in your workplace, fire in your home, things are back to normal. There was a first aid case, Maybe you had to go to the hospital, maybe there was a car accident, whatever. That's one type of disaster 0-24 that's managed a lot different than category number two, which is 24 to 72 or 96 hours. Somewhere in that range. That is the disaster that our government tells us that the United States government, we should all be prepared for something in that range or there's a disaster. And then you sort of like go and you know, you're hunker down for a couple of days powers out. Then you have category three where that's a longer term disaster Between that 72 or 96 hours and one month is where I put that at one month, you're essentially, that's a different level of disaster preparation. You have to be able to have water, food, resources, whatever you need for 30 days. That's probably where most disaster preparation ends is at 30 days. People are of limited means. And when I say a little limited means that not necessarily not only financial, but what if you're living in a New York City apartment or an LA apartment, 600 square foot, you're not gonna have 30 days or the disaster supplies in that apartment so easy. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it ain't gonna be so easy. And then you have the category four where we all experienced a category for disaster. And what was that? That was the lockdowns. You're also talking about primitive living because after 30 days you got you got some something to handle your in the juvenile as we say on this program. So what does that mean? After, what does, where are we going with this? Each level of disaster, you're going to need a different level of preparation. Category one. The real short term. Okay, you have a first aid kit, you have fire extinguishers. Maybe you have a fallback location where you can go and you know, it's pretty short term, it's gonna impact him. Same thing with Category two. Right? Once you get into category three, you have to do a lot of preparation and then, you know, then you get back to the primitive living slash lockdowns. So before we go on any further, what are we talking about? As far as disasters. First thing you have to do is design define not design, right, define what a disaster is. It's real simple disaster could be almost anything. I asked this all the time when I do disaster response worker training disaster could be anything. It could be a financial disaster. That could be a food disaster. It could be a water disaster. It could be a weather event. It could be a manmade disaster. It could be a nuclear event from either a nuclear weapon, a dirty bomb, a nuclear accident of some sort. It could be a medical, it could be uh for you, if you have a chronic illness, you've been diagnosed with a chronic illness you've been uh diagnosed with or a family member. Also, you've been diagnosed with a uh life altering situation. It could be losing your job. It could be many different things that you could have a disaster with and they all require preparation. But the thing is this, the people start running for disaster preparation stuff real quickly hoarded. I mean, so for example, Superstorm Sandy were, I believe it's the 10th anniversary now for Superstorm Sandy in Northeast, people were not prepared. They never thought something like this would happen like this. And guess what? You couldn't get all different types of supplies. Last year, Hurricane IDa impacted my family with our basement being flooded and it took a long time for us to recover. In some ways, we still have not recovered because I still have a shed load of stuff that I had to go through. My wife gave me an ultimatum mrs safety worse and she said, hey, I want my garage back jimmy. So had to get everything in there recently. That was fairly recently. We had to look back up and get things going again. So it takes a long time to recover today on the news. There was a story where somebody that has still has not had any type of recovery meaningful from hurricane ida because they met their capacity of what they can handle. They had all different situations going on. So it's important for you to go out there to assess what kind of disaster you could have, you analyze, what am I gonna do about it? And three, we're gonna prepare and then we're gonna review it with a small group of people and maybe in my family, maybe a couple of neighbors. And I think we did a couple of weeks ago, a story on quarantining information on emergency response for your family and it could be for your facility also. So we're looking forward to talking about disaster preparation for the month of september and all of our themes are going to have to deal with disasters unless something else comes up. That's all I have for our intro. So welcome to the next month of programming for safety wars. 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