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Rescue Olympics: Teaching the People How to Survive

Rescue Olympics – RescueLympics
2011 document no. 1

RESCUE OLYMPICS

OBJECTIVES:

Promote widespread awareness of the significance of Life-Saving and Self Rescue among young to old, male and female members of the population

Increase the chances of the members of the population for safety, survival

Increase fingertip knowledge, knowhow, basic skills in avoidance of danger situations and minimization of risks in their own immediate environment and in the community as a whole.

Sustain the awareness campaign

Raise public consciousness of global problems of loss of life and injury arising from unsafe practices, hazards in the environment among other important considerations.

Engage in continuing, improved information and education campaign to increase level of the public’s preparedness and attunement to forecasts of disaster, emergencies and other unforeseen hazardous events – natural or human-made

Combine, pool talent, resources, time, commitments in order to effect successful life saving undertakings in limited conditions.

Expose Rescue Teams and Individual Rescuer to new methods and techniques and Increase knowledge, proficiency in Search, in Rescue, Life Saving and Recovery

Develop bonding and camaraderie between and among Rescue Teams

Create a functional, interactive-cooperative network among Rescue Teams and the Individual Members of the various participating Rescue Teams

Challenge trained rescue - emergency service personnel and bring them to world class fitness and proficiency.

Strongly encourage private sector participation in promoting and evolving Search, Rescue-Life Saving and Recovery

“During time of calamity, disaster, Run! Do not think of any other considerations. Save your life, save yourself.” – Sec. Voltaire T. Gazmin, Department of National Defense

“Be prepared for calamity, Be prepared for disaster. Prepare a survival kit consisting of first aid, your important documents, etc.” – Philippine media, Private Corporate and Public Sector agency advocates for preparedness

It can never be enough to exhort people to run. It is not enough to admonish people to be prepared and gather things into a “rescue kit” and run, escape danger when disaster comes.

It is very important to introduce specific ideas, actions, skills, concepts to the entire population slowly, gradually what it will be required to be able to save one’s self from harm and danger before the onset of and during a disaster as well as after the catastrophe has occurred.

However, it is most exceedingly also important that the population has access to public warning systems.

METHODOLOGY:

Conduct nationwide Search for Finalists for Rescue Olympics through the following intramurals:

• Bureau of Fire Inter-Regional Rescue Competition
• Fire Brigade Volunteers Rescue Competition
• Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Civilian Rescue Team Competitions 
• Conduct the National Championship Competitions for the best Rescue Team in the main event called Rescue Olympics 

ELIMINATIONS:

The skilled Rescue Teams shall qualify and participate in various challenges each year. The following are the games or challenges:

1. Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped below ground
2. Extrication of Victim-Casualty on water
3. Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped at high angle

Each team shall consist of six player-members:

1. The Team Leader
2. Medic
3. Two Technical Rescue Personnel; and,
4. One Personnel in charge of admin support to operations.

During RECUELYMPICS, the Teams are presented several and unique conditions that challenge their capability to immediately and on-the-spot, form a Rescue Operational Plan (Rescue OP) and successfully extricate the casualty in the allotted time.

The scenarios include the following:

• 30 minutes Complex Rescue
• 20 minutes Equipment No Holds Barred
• 20 minutes Equipment By Selection Only
• 10 minutes Race Against Time

GAME CATEGORIES

1 – Urban Rescue
2 – Water Borne Rescue
3 – Air Borne Rescue
4 – Mass Casualty Incident Rescue
5 – Highlands / Mountain Rescue

SAFETY - RESCUE SKILL COMPETITIONS:

Low Angle Rescue

Victim Extraction
Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Underground River Triage

Water Borne Rescue
Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Water Borne Triage

Air Borne Rescue

Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Air Borne Triage

High Angle Rescue
Rope Transfer
Rappelling
Rope Ascending
Triage
Mid-Air Rope Transfer
Wall Climb
Mountain Climb

Mass Casualty Incident Rescue
Life Saving Individual
Life Saving Group
Triage

Other competitions

CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS - ALL CATEGORIES

Champion Rescue Team (First Place)
First Runner Up Rescue Team (Second Place)
Second Runner Up Rescue Team (Third Place)
Best in Overall Water Rescue Award
Best in Overall Ground Rescue Award
Best in High Altitude Rescue Award

CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS

Best in Life Saving Individual
Best in Life Saving Group
Best in Underground River Triage
Other Ground, Water and High Altitude Rescue AwardsBest in Triage

Best in Extraction
Best in Cave Triage
Best in Rope Transfer Award
Best in Rappelling Award
Best in Rope Ascending Award
Best in Mid-Air Rope Transfer Award
Awards for Other Various competition events

Related Topics:

Political Pressure on Fire and Rescue Executives - 2011 Philippine Paper

Acknowledgments:

The template of the Rescue Olympics Urban Rescue Category for Metro Manila draws nearly its entire contest concept and rules from the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the United States and Leon County, State of Florida Rescue policies and procedures - Glossary of important terms.

To all of the individuals and organizations that provided useful ideas and concepts that cannot all be named here the authors would like to express their heartfelt gratitude.

July 5, 2014

Centre Humanes + Societas

centrehumanes@gmail.com

communitysafetysummit@yahoo.com

asiacommunications@msn.com

09212261611 09162728844 09174760651

Rescue education campaign

Rescue Olympics – RescueLympics

2014 version no. 2

Rescue is a universal concern. simply defined it is bringing a besieged, endangered human or any other living form (referred to as Victim or Casualty) to more safer place and circumstances.

RESCUE OLYMPICS

INTRODUCTION

There are about 29,000-35,000 highly trained individuals in the Philippines alone that are especially trained in rescue. Only about 10% of these individuals are able to participate in saving lives, safeguarding individuals or clusters of people in a community except during severe emergencies that affect their own life and that of their immediate neighborhood.

Within a universe of a 100,000,000 population, these rescue-trained experts will be no match to the coming of major disasters even within their own communities alone considering the ratio of roughly 1:3500.

There is a need therefore to promote and sustain an effort to teach everyone from young to old, males and females, at least the idea of self-rescue.

It is basically not enough to state, “Be prepared for calamity, Be prepared for disaster. Prepare a survival kit consisting of first aid, your important documents, etc.” No it is not enough. It is very important to introduce specific ideas, actions, skills, concepts to the entire population slowly, gradually what it will be required to be able to save one’s self from harm and danger before the onset of and during a disaster as well as after the catastrophe has occurred.

This is the basic vision and the fundamental mission of Rescue Olympics. Centre di Humanes et Societas Inc. believed since 1992 that the numerous highly trained individuals who are capable of conducting rescue, can be converted into virtual teachers of the public and serve as models in their own communities as well.

During the devastation by Yolanda in Tacloban and other parts of the country, especially those that were trained in rescue, had 100% personal survival including those of their own families. This can happen to average citizens, if given the chance to learn how to save themselves. Rescue Olympics determines to do just that.

To accomplish this, a nationwide challenge seeks to pit rescue teams and compete in skills and competence improvement games and challenges. RESCUELYMPICS will be held annually in games designed to heighten the alertness, confidence and expertise.

In essence therefore, Rescue Olympics, designed as a training tool for rescuers nationwide, will be an educational device and forum for our citizenry across the whole country. If broadcast and heard in real time and over and over again on national television and radio, printed on broadsheets and tabloids repeatedly, the concepts will little by little sink in, to the minds of our people and hopefully give them several second chances of enjoying life again, even after chilling and truly dangerous disasters.

SIMULATION

The special characteristic of the Rescue Olympics is that it will simulate or create a mock up of broad range mobilization of several rescue teams to form a rescue task force that will play the role of components of the same task force to attempt on a per team basis the rescue of the designated victim / casualty / patient.

NATIONWIDE CHALLENGE ELIMINATIONS

The skilled Rescue Teams shall qualify and participate in various challenges each year. The following are the games or challenges:

1. Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped below ground
2. Extrication of Victim-Casualty on water
3. Extrication of Victim-Casualty trapped at high angle

Each team shall consist of six player-members:

1. The Team Leader
2. Medic
3. Two Technical Rescue Personnel; and,
4. One Personnel in charge of admin support to operations.

During RESCUELYMPICS, the Teams are presented several and unique conditions that challenge their capability to immediately and on-the-spot, form a Rescue Operational Plan (Rescue OP) and successfully extricate the casualty in the allotted time.

The scenarios include the following:

30 minutes Complex Rescue - The team performs a Triage and rescue three victims two of whose conditions worsened from an air line crash.

• 20 minutes Equipment No Holds Barred – No limit to the types of Rescue Equipment will be used to rescue one stable and entrapped victim.
• 20 minutes Equipment By Selection Only – Rescue that focuses only on very small tools and will not allow the use of sophisticated Rescue Equipment.
• 10 minutes Race Against Time – The teams perform a rescue of a victim whose condition has severely deteriorated and has only a few minutes left to live before being transferred to a medical facility.

GENERAL GOALS AND RULE ASSUMPTIONS

The project is proprietary to the Resource Recovery Movement and Executive Safety section of Centre di Humanes et Societas Inc., the Kampo Uno Rescue in partnership with BGen. Santiago Laguna of the Republic of the Philippines Bureau of fire protection and emergency rescue service (designated government lead First Responder) as well as the Office of Chairman, Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) as continuing joint pursuit with that agency for survival from risks brought about disasters.

The project originally determined to achieve the goal of assisting the first responder agency of acquiring adequate and improved communication base radio and portable hand sets as well as safety gear during rescue missions.

The objective is to challenge rescue - emergency service personnel to bring them to world class fitness and proficiency.

It also aims to raise the public consciousness of the global problems of demise and injury arising from unsafe practices, hazards in the environment among other important considerations.

Because it is a public event, it aims to promote the concept of self-rescue among the citizens and therefore increase their chances of safety, survival, avoidance of danger situations and minimization of risks in their own immediate environment and in the community as a whole.

The simulated nature of the competitions also seek to educate the public of the need to combine, pool talent, resources, time, commitments in order to effect successful life saving undertakings in limited conditions.

The proprietor does not reserve exclusive rights in the implementation of these games. A main implementor may be an independent organization coming from outside of the proprietor organization.

General rules and regulations are as follows:

The main implementor may be an independent organization instead of the proprietor under the rule that any proceeds from the annual event shall be shared between the Major Event Sponsor-Implementor and the proprietor on the following basis calculated from gross receipts:

First responder agency and
Major Event Sponsor-Implementor       - 80%
Proprietor                                - 20%

The main implementor shall engage the services of a reputable accounting-auditing firm to act as the accountant-comptroller for the event.

Proprietary owners of Rescue Olympics (RescueLympics) will raffle the final set of Judges selected and provided to the proprietor by the Major Event Sponsor-Implementor.

Contestants shall pass the Registration process to be considered contenders in the Rescue Olympics (RescueLympics).

Winners (Rescue Team) shall be provided incentive and recognition by the Major Event Sponsor-Implementor, first responder agency, the MMDA and other cooperating authorities.

Shown in the following Sections are the Contest Rules of the Rescue Olympics.

1 – URBAN RESCUE COMPETITIONS

2 – WATER BORNE RESCUE COMPETITIONS

3 – AIR BORNE RESCUE COMPETITIONS

4 – MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT RESCUE COMPETITIONS

5 – HIGHLANDS / MOUNTAIN RESCUE COMPETITIONS

Acknowledgments:

The template of the Rescue Olympics Urban Rescue Category for Metro Manila draws nearly its entire contest concept and rules from the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the United States and Leon County, State of Florida Rescue policies and procedures - Glossary of important terms.

To all of the individuals and organizations that provided useful ideas and concepts that cannot all be named here the authors would like to express their heartfelt gratitude.

July 5, 2014

Centre Humanes + Societas

centrehumanes@gmail.com

communitysafetysummit@yahoo.com

asiacommunications@msn.com

09212261611 09162728844 09174760651

Poster under theme:

 #YolandaPH
#BureauofFireProtection 

#MMDA

#Philippines

#Rescue

#safety

#survival

How can you help your shopping centers and stores in your community?

Store Security Plan and Procedure

· The first priority of the store and the authorities in the community should be the prevention of egress for any kind of robbery in band groups or individual criminal that will cause potential losses and damage to the store or its store owners. From the store proper, to any kind of parking area, all points of egress for the perpetrators must be stopped.

· The store can install a system of effective security road blocks to deter perpetrators from exiting the premises during escape after a criminal act.

· Alongside locking down the perpetrators of a robbery or similar group, is immediate neutralization and demobilization, thereby preventing the same perpetrators from causing further harm and damage to life and property within the mall premises.

·  A similarly important security procedure is to place the entire the store or similar facility in NCRPO under heightened alert, considerably increase target hardening for an indefinite extended period once that facility receives a bomb threat. All measures may be taken to prevent, coopt and interdict any criminal act that will follow. After about more than one (1) month, the security may be eased however for practical purposes, random alert and heightened security may be called by the security manager.

·  The security guards that fled the scene of the robbery should be interviewed thoroughly by the SPD and be given authorized leave with pay by the store-PSAs employing them.

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The Community-Based Safety, Peace and Security Secretariat entertains all manner of suggestions, recommendations, comments for keeping shopping areas and stores more safe from crime.If you have any topics to discuss please contact us or email at the communitysafetysummit@yahoo.com or call us at +6325058107 or mobile +6391747606451.

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Greetings to Everyone!!!

Safety on the road

Recently, one of the buses of Don Mariano Transit figured in an accident where it is reported that 18 people died (see photo below).

Photo Credit: Manila Bulletin, December 16, 2013 by Michael Varcas

The attention of everyone, especially our government officials, is most earnestly called towards past proposals, suggestions, recommendations, encouragement, admonitions, for making transport safety a key concern of the public sector.

At this time, whether or not the Philippine Government under Pres. Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino the 3rd will listen to all these unsolicited advice will be the determinant of the future of public safety on the streets of the country, sea and ocean lanes, and the Philippine air ways.

One of the hundreds of proposals on transport safety became a certified legislation of the Ramos Administration in 1994-1995. It was an executive order draft that instead was forwarded with strong endorsement by former President Fidel V. Ramos to the two houses of Congress to be made into Law due to the inclusion of a component providing for changes in users' fees and charges in the transportation industry.

Because Congress holds the power of the purse and is the only one mandated to create taxes, fees and charges that will be levied upon the public, Congress was the last stop of the proposal for transport safety. Under the late Pres. Corazon Aquino, the same proposal was submitted to Malacanang because of the need for a Philippine council on Safety - or any kind of agency concerned with Safety in general.

If we look at our Philippine Government's structure, there is a myriad of government units, offices, bureaus on safety. From the Department of Labor, Health, National Defense, Transportation and Communications, and the list goes on and on. Despite this however, or because of too many duplicating functions, there is a seeming confusion as to who will be responsible for this and that concern on Safety.

Hundreds of world, international, regional Conventions, conferences and Workshops are held all over the the globe on Safety. The United Nations, cognizant of the value and importance of the universal concern of Safety, has elevated its status consistently from low to a very high Category under the UN Structure.

Therefore a single agency, unifying at least a wide array of safety concerns and lessening the duplication and conflicts of functions of too many agencies under the bureaucracy was proposed.

Out of these proposals, at least one was favored to become law: the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) Act that came about due to the strong wording by Malacanang stating that the proposed law was part of its certified legislative agenda for the period.

That certified priority legislation under the Ramos administration, became law. Secretary Vicente Rivera, past head of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) disclosed that former Congressman Manuel A. Roxas III and Senator Franklin D. Drilon were very instrumental in making the draft bill become law.

During her tenure in Malacanang, the late Philippine President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, appointed a lady by the name of Emilia Boncodin to the post of Director at the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

Eventually, Ms. Boncodin rose in the ranks and became Assistant Secretary, Undersecretary and yet was the source of complaints from too many sectors due to her insistence on ten percent (10%) commission or kickback for herself when it became her turn to be the one to release the payments to government service providers. When the supplier-contractors could not produce the cash, Ms. Boncodin will hold the payment hostage in return for a post-dated cheque or any other debt instrument, bank note that will ensure her 10% kickback will be paid.

However enormous and tremendous were the monies earned by this Boncodin in the past due to the immense, uncontrollable power of hostaging and illegal detention of the DBM, Boncodin refused and returned the enacted and signed (by President Ramos) Law creating the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to Congress.

Her reason was that DBM did not have Fifty Million Philippine Pesos (Php50-M) to cover the operationalization of the NTSB into a functional office. While amassing more than a few billions in office, Boncodin refused to fund Php50-M for the NTSB Law.  More  >  >