• Develop a health facility emergency risk management programme.

• Promote safety and security of health workers in emergencies on an institutional and national level.

• Conduct regular training exercises on emergencies to maintain and update skills and knowledge.

• Develop an emergency preparedness plan for your health facility and integrate it into local health emergency and community emergency plans.

• Continually test and update emergency response plans at every level.

Architects and Engineers

• Ensure that the element of safety is incorporated into the design for health facilities and hospitals.

• Participate in assessing the safety of health facilities against various types of emergencies.

• Advocate for the importance of ensuring that hospitals are safe from disasters.

Communities

• Support your local health facilities’ efforts to implement emergency plans.

• Integrate those plans with the community plans for what you should do in an emergency.

• Support economic and political initiatives to strengthen your health facilities.

• Demand that health facilities in your area be built and kept safe.

International Agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

• Identify your specialized niche and share your knowledge and expertise to make health facilities safe and prepared.

• Build on existing interagency mechanisms and strategic partnerships to strengthen health facility preparedness.