how to make houses of worship safe for congregations
Situation overview
This research is intended to provide directions for engineers, architects, building officials, and property owners to design an underground basement for the San Francisco church. It includes information about the design and construction of shelters in the churches that will protect in response to hazards and threats. Because the security needs and types of installation vary, church officials may select the methods and measures that meet their congregation situations. The use of experts to apply the techniques contained in this piece of research is encouraged. The information contained herein will assist in the design and plan of rooms that may be constructed outside or within the church. These safe rooms will protect the worshipers from a variety of hazards, including storms, violent acts, and earthquakes. Underground rooms may also be designed to protect individuals from seismic waves and attempted robbery, which requires designs to resist forced entry and ballistic effects. This covers a variety of protective options, from low-cost protection to underground rooms. These safe rooms protect against explosives, floods, and earthquakes.
This research focuses on underground rooms as emergency systems, ones that do not provide safety on continuous things. To employ an emergency system requires warning based on the knowledge that a hazardous condition is present. Protection is started as a result of signals from authorities on a release of poisonous materials, visible or indications of a statement, or observed symptoms of exposure in people. Although there are detectors which are automatic for such occurrences, the response may take a long time
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to provide insight on how to make houses of worship safe for congregations. Some many threats and hazards occur daily, which may threaten the life of worshipers. This guide sets plans on how to mitigate emergencies such as tornados, earthquakes, and floods. It will show procedures to be taken to ensure that worshipers are free from those threats. These plans will follow the laws and regulations required by the government in building and constructing. The purpose of the project is to ensure all people within the church feel safe and free while worshipping. These people include the children, the elderly, physically challenged, and the mentally disabled. Good examples will be provided on the practices, and matters will be considered for implementation. Steps will be taken for potential emergencies through the creation of emergency operation plans (EOP). It will discuss actions that will be taken before, during, and after an emergency to lessen the effects on property and loss of life. This action will encourage churches to develop an emergency operation plan.
Concept operations
The federal government and security agency in San Francisco will work together with church officials to make sure those plans are conducted. The government will give license to the church to install safety equipment in the church. It will also coordinate with the security agency to help the engineers and architectures on the measures to take in ensuring the installation of security gears are a success. Architectures will work with designers. Those with functional needs and disabilities will have their structures constructed in the underground basements. The church will also be designed to ensure that they feel comfortable inside and outside it. The county and city of Francisco are in support of san Francesco church decision due to the current trends in earthquakes and insecurity. The primary purpose of these actions is to prevent loss of lives, protect the congregation from attacks, and mitigate property loss and loss of life. Measures will also be taken after the occurrence of an emergency to ensure that the house recovers from the injury. Lockdown will also make the impact less on life.
Organization and assignment of responsibilities
The staffs’ role is to ensure that the congregation is evacuated after the hazard. Priest ensures that all plans go as planned and are thriving. The team selected to take the worshipers to the basement for safety is also required to lock down the san Francesco church and offer security to them. All teams and authorities coordinate with each other to ensure that the plans are a success.
Directions, Control, and Coordination
This section aims to explain and show leadership to be taken in the planning if building san Francesco church. The church priests will have control over all projects undertaken in the church. He will act as the director of the plan. The assistant priest will work together with the priests and other officials to coordinate the operation of the house of worship. The associate priest plays more roles since he will oversee all the activities with the direction and orders from the priest. Reports will be presented to the priest daily. Church members also play a crucial role in giving views and suggestions for the design. Worshipers are part of the communities of San Francesco, and so the plan is in line with the emergency management system. The priest has control over the store, which stores the equipment for the building. Supplies and other resources needed to complete the plan will be controlled by the priest in coordination with the assistance priest.
Information Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination
Information will be collected before and after the threats and hazards to provide a report on crime, radio alert, weather reports, and law enforcement. After the dangers and risks, websites and hotlines will be used to assists in the recovery aspects. Those with shock and mental torture will be helped through mental health agencies. The teams selected by the management will be used to analyses the collected data. The information will be shared with the congregation through public addresses. The priest will be given the information to those who collected, and he will deliver it to the worshipers. It should be shared immediately after it has been analyzed.
Training and Exercise
Few people from the church of worship will be chosen and trained occasionally. Training involves how to mitigate disasters, fast aid services, and accounting. One church member will be trained on accounts and financial records. A team of worshipers will gain the necessary skills of exercise to compart violent attacks in the church. Each person will be told their responsibilities and obligation to the plan. Training and practice aim to accomplish the objectives of the program, which is to mitigate threats and hazards.
Administration, Finance, and Logistics
Managers in different departments will control the administration body in the san Francesco church. Each department will come up with a list of resources it requires and will be accountable for each fund. Records will be presented to the chair of the house of worship every month and will be preserved in the church’s storehouse. Enough resources will be bought and stored in case of any replacement of assets in the future. The congregates will be a source of finance to the plan. They will hold meetings to see who will provide personal properties to be used in the project. Some donations program will also be created to get more finance. Policies will be made on how to keep financial records. The records are crucial as they show transparency and accountability. At the end of every month, thee files will be presented to the congregation for verification. Track resources will also be made every month.
Plan Development and Maintenance
The team will develop a plan on the course of action to accomplish each objective in the hazards and threats. For each earthquake that occurs, the response will be to take the congregation to the basement for safety. A team of four congregants who are chosen as part of the rescue team will undertake these plans. The team accessed this action and saw it feasible to implement. In case the service terrorists attack the church, the team looks down the church and directs the children, elderly, and other worshipers to safety. It would take five minutes for the team to complete this mission. The priest will make these decisions of evacuations, shelter, and lockdown while the assistant priest will work with the team to oversee the plan. After the action, those injured will be attended by the group, which has professionals in the field of medicine. The resources available are the medical kit, which will be present in the basement. Food will also be current and communication facilities in case the emergency takes long to end.
Authorities and References
The committee makes laws from the church official. These laws include; presenting financial records in time, ensuring emergency types of equipment are ready all the time, adhering to call for exercise and pieces of training, reporting any suspicious personnel, and no carrying of weapons in the church. The succession operation and decision making will be interchanged to ensure leadership goes on without their presence.
Functional Annexes
The plan should include the following lists in the technical annexes. The list is made to give guidelines on how what will happen in case an emergency occurs and resources available. In the house of worship, when such an emergency occurs. This list includes:
- Evacuation
- Lockdown
- Shelter in place
- Recovery
- Security
In case an earthquake occurs, or terrorists attack the church, the church will be filled with protection gears to ensure that the earthquake impact does not affect the congregants. Engineers who have enough knowledge of building in an earthquake-prone zone will work to mitigate these threats. The foundation of san Francesco church will have prehispanic layer with thick walls and underground basements, which is resistance to any seismic activities. During cases of terrorist attacks or earthquakes congregation will be evacuated to the shelters in the underground vaults. The entire church will be designed by architectures to itself down during emergencies. Bulletproof windows and doors will be part of church plans for security purposes. Shelters in the basements can accommodate about two hundred congregants. Worshipers with special needs are also considered in putting the accommodations in place. Toilets that can be used with or without physical disabilities will be constructed in the basements. To recover, the san Francesco church is accessible since it will be built to accommodate any changes in the future. Engineers and architectures will work together to ensure this project is a success.
Threats and Hazards
The house of worship threats and hazards are active: active shooter, earthquakes, and severe storms. The planning team identified the threats and compared them. Risks are accessed through the assessment process and a procedure device it occurred that earthquakes are frequent in san Francesco. The magnitude of the occurrence ranged between five and seven. These two magnitudes were known to cause excessive damage to property, especially buildings. First, the earthquakes were accompanied by seismic activity, which would give enough time for the team to warn the congregants in the church to run for safety. The communication authority in the city broadcasted on radios and television provided information scientists. Ut would give enough time for the leaders to warn residents and get prepared. The hazard takes about ten minutes before it disappears. Once the disaster is over, radio can be turned on to listen to the news for fall up effects. Storms and attacks are minor since they do not occur frequently. The plan should, therefore, prioritize disaster such as an earthquake in constructing the house of worship in san Francesco.