What WOULD you do if you had no working plumbing
or sewers for two weeks? What do you do if you have 800 students all needing to go to the bathroom within15 minutes
of evacuating? How will you dispose of human waste for your family or your site? How do you prevent spread
of infection? What if your family needs to shelter-in-place or a school is in a security lockdown with all
of that waste accumulating inside tight airspace? How fast can you set up a privacy shelter? How does your disaster
food plan impact disaster waste management?
These are just some of the questions this two-hour seminar is designed to address. Furthermore,
many people have misconceptions about certain aspects of disaster sanitation that might lead them to do things that are unhealthy,
illegal, and/or very unsafe. This course is designed to help people avoid those typical mistakes in their disaster planning,
and to increase the wisdom and prudence of their actions during a disaster.
Although of necessity there is a fair amount of time spent on the challenging issues regarding
safer management of human urine and feces, the course covers a variety of other and/or related sanitation issues. Participants
will also have an opportunity to work in competitve teams and gain hands-on experience
with setting up sanitation stations and equipment.
