Unit 1 - 5 DM

Hazards and Disasters are mainly classified as

• Physical and chemical

• Natural and Human induced

• Physical and Human

• Physical and Human

Disaster is an event arising out of

• Result of hazard event

• Causes of hazard event

• Causes of disaster event

• All of the above

Industrial hazards comes under the category of:

• Natural hazards

• Human induced hazards

• Meteorological hazard

• Wild fire hazard

Who shall be the first responders in disaster management situation?

• Central Government

• Community

• Local Government

• State Government

Structural and Non-structural measures are elements of high category of Risk Reduction measures

• Socio-economic measures

• Physical measures

• Environmental measures

• Post disaster measures

The primary goal of a disaster preparedness plan is:

• To protect the population

• To protect valuable resources

• To keep communications lines open

• To protect environmental health personnel

What is called for the manuals that identify the role of each officer in State for managing the natural disasters?

• State Relief Manuals

• State Environmental Protection Manuals

• State Disaster Manuals

• State Protection Manuals

Full form of DDMA –

• District Disaster Management Authority

• District Disease Manage Authority

• District Dam Manage Authority

• District Duck Management Authority

Which of the following group of people are more vulnerable in the event of a disaster?

• Men, boys, old people

• Men, Women, boys

• Women, children, Old people

• None of these

High vulnerability and high hazard are associated with

• Low disaster risk

• Medium disaster risk

• High disaster risk

• None of these