Bandecchi, Anna Elisa

Casagli, N.

Ceccatelli, M.

Fontanelli, K.

Gambacciani, L.

Gracchi, T.

Lotti, A.

Marini, F.

Masi, Elena Benedetta

Morelli, S.

Pastonchi, Laura

Pazzi, V.

Valori, L.

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Geophysical Research AbstractsVol. 20, EGU2018-15669, 2018EGU General Assembly 2018© Author(s) 2018. CC Attribution 4.0 license.A multidimensional and interdisciplinary strategy for geo-hydrologicalrisk reduction oriented towards minorsStefano Morelli (1), Veronica Pazzi (1), Anna Elisa Bandecchi (1), Luca Valori (2), Luca Gambacciani (2), MattiaCeccatelli (1), Teresa Gracchi (1), Federico Marini (1), Elena Benedetta Masi (1), Laura Pastonchi (1), AlessiaLotti (1), Katia Fontanelli (1), and Nicola Casagli (1)(1) University of Firenze, Department of Earth Sciences, Montespertoli (Firenze), Italy (stefano.morelli@unifi.it), (2) INAIL,Istituto Nazionale per l’assicurazione contro gli infortuni sul lavoro, Direzione regionale ToscanaOne of the targets of the Sendai Framework is to reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruptionof basic services, in particular educational facilities, developing their resilience. In this perspective, we involved40 school (Central Italy) in a three-year project, which aims at assessing the real safety to which all the schooloccupants (students, teachers and auxiliary personnel) are subjected. This project was structured in three com-plementary lines of work: 1) improvement of the school buildings safety; 2) improvement of school occupantsawareness; 3) improvement of the measures for the minors protection within the Territorial Civil Protection Plans.The first one consists in rapid and low cost instrumental surveys on built structures that are combined with theobservation of all natural features possibly related to local geo-hydrological risks, as well as the ordinary habitsand the planned behaviours in case of emergency. The compendium of the main results, which is represented bythe Geohazard Safety Classification (GSC), and a list of technical recommendations, is useful to inform the officialsecurity managers that can implement the existing risk assessment documents of their school building and relatedemergency plans. The second line of work consists in increasing and improving the geological risks awareness ofthe students through both the involvement during the survey and the administration of questionnaires focused onthe local geo-hydrological risk perception. Therefore, the questionnaires help to assess the current resilience degreethat is included in the GSC definition and are conceived as a didactic instrument, since they allow students to reflecton these problems. All the questionnaires are calibrated for age groups. Some unbiased and expert school educatorscollaborated in assessing and testing them in advance. After the results delivery, a public meeting was held eachyear. All the interested teachers, concerned operators, security supervisors and school managers were involved. Thegoals of the meetings were: a) to explain the executed working methods, b) to have an open discussion about thepriorities of school security, c) to convey ideas that will serve the professional growth of teachers and the process oftransmission to students during their educational path in addition to the planned practice exercise like evacuations.Finally, since the full management of emergencies in a school must necessarily be linked to the territorial civilprotection plans, the third line of work consists in verifying, in some sample municipalities throughout Italy, theminimum standards for the protection of minors during emergencies. This was realized opening a dialogue withthe public administrations and looking for the presence of some specific "indicators" in their plans and operativeactivities. This analytical process had also the function: i) to sensitise the local institutions of adopting suitablemeasures for the protection of minors in emergency within the Civil Protection Plans; ii) to promote a culture ofsafety and risk prevention, in which children are considered active subjects; iii) to disseminate the contents of thealready existing guidelines concerning the minors’ rights; iv) to highlight good practices already experimented byinstitutions.

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