Risks and safety culture in civil protection

Abstract

This work aims to stress the concept of a safety culture in the sense that each us is an emergency responder, the first one to respond, and the more prepared we are, with better training and awareness, the better we will perform. This applies even to the relationship between us and the emergency responders. All this will improve the likelihood of surviving an accident. If there is an accident, anywhere at any time, each of us is alone. And the bigger the accident the longer we are alone. There is no firefighter, no policeman, no doctor nearby, so it is very important to be competent, in other words, to know how to react, to want to react and to be able to react. It is a basic requirement to understand the phenomenon, to appreciate the consequences arising from the way we act and realize that we have to perform according to the situation - before, during and after its occurrence. In brief, let resilience not just be a word; let it be a concept that belongs to the wider definition of the Safety Culture.