Activity Sheet

Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction

For this task, you need to do the following:

1. Identify a public building that you want to inspect. It could be your school building, your city or
municipal hall or the public market near or nearest to your place of residence.
2. Inspect the building in terms of the minimum standards and requirements set by the law for the
regulation and management of buildings in the country. While the law is the basis, you are required to
use your own sense of judgement when you evaluate the public building.
3. Make a checklist of your inspection.
4. After you have completed your inspection and made your overall assessment of the public building,
identify the reasons why the public building meets or does not meet adequate environmental safeguards.
You can do this by conducting interviews with your city or municipal engineer for the city hall or
municipal hall and the public market, or with the head of the physical plant division or department of
your school or your university.
You can ask questions about general problems relating to compliance or noncompliance with the
National Building Code by public and/or school authorities. Your interviews must also lead you to the
general problems relating to the enforcement or lack of enforcement law.
5. Consolidating your building inspection results and data from your interviews, what are your policy
recommendations to the Philippine Government to address the country’s vulnerability to disaster
especially in the area of the implementation of building codes.
6. Your policy recommendations will be assessed based on the following rubric:

Criteria 3 2 1
Problem Shows understanding of the Shows limited Show limited
Identification main problems in the story understanding of some of understanding of the
the problems in the story most of the problems in
the story.
Analysis and Provides a discerning and Provides a thorough Provides an incomplete
Evaluation Problems thorough problem analysis of analysis of some of the analysis of the problems
all the problems presented problems identified identified.
Recommendations Based on the evidence Based on limited evidence Recommendations not
supported problem analysis problem analysis; with based on well- grounded
and well balanced arguments; unbalanced argument problem analysis
sound, feasible and relevant
recommendations
Relevance/ With appropriate connections With appropriate identified With inappropriate
connection to Lesson between identified problems problems and concepts connection between
and the concepts studied in studied in class but problems identified and
class somewhat unclear the concepts studied in
class
Writing Mechanics Shows clarity, conciseness Shows clarity of ideas; some Unclear writing; poor
and correctness; writing is grammar or spelling errors, grammar and
free of grammar and spelling lacks organization organization
errors

Deadline: February 4, 2019. First period in the morning.

Checklist:

Items for Building Inspection Yes No

Is the building’s location safe, or at safe distance from streams or bodies of water
and/or sources of water considered to be polluted, from a volcano or volcanic site,
and/or any other building considered to be a potential source of fire or explosion

Is the building clean and well- maintained?

Are there damaged portions or sections in the building? Please note signs of damage
from fire or earthquake, typhoons or any fortuitous event.)

Are the exterior walls and openings, interior walls and enclosures, floors, exits, stairs,
and roofs constructed with safe materials?

Is the building located at a safe distance from the public streets or alleys?

Does the building observe adequate environment safeguard?

Is there enough number of emergency exits in the building?

Does the building have “adequate” ventilation system?

Are there fire- extinguishing units installed in the building?

Overall, does the building meet adequate environmental safeguards?