The public believes that the availability of more communications tools and training on how to respond during particular natural disasters and severe weather events (48% each) as well as an investment in response vehicles that can navigate through inclement weather conditions (47%) would help to improve safety outcomes.
What do you believe would make your local public safety and emergency management agencies more prepared to serve the community during a natural disaster/severe weather event?
CONCLUSION
This survey identified public perceptions about severe weather preparedness - both on a community and personal level. The insights within this report can help inform natural disaster and severe weather planning, public education strategies and communication protocols. While emergency management professionals and public safety agencies play a vital role in preparedness and response, community members play a role in safety, too, and can do their part to keep safe by creating severe weather emergency plans for themselves and their families. The public can ensure they are connected to the right notification methods from trusted sources. At the same time, emergency managers must also meet residents where they are to ensure timely, effective communication when it counts most. It is also critical that first responders have the appropriate tools and resources to reach community members during natural disasters, including those with access and functional needs. Agency cross collaboration in advance and in the midst of severe weather events will ensure that police, fire and EMS professionals are able to respond swiftly and successfully when natural disasters strike. Motorola Solutions offers communities a myriad of technologies to help during natural disasters including mission-critical radio infrastructure and devices and 9-1-1 command center software, video security and land mobile radios. Its Rave Mobile Safety platform also addresses challenges and opportunities outlined in this report including multimodal emergency communication capabilities (mass notification, email, phone, signage, texts), mobile safety apps and 9-1-1 safety profiles.
More communications tools (e.g., mass notifications) to reach the public
48 %
Better training on how to respond during particular natural disaster and severe weather events
48 %
Vehicles that can navigate through weather conditions
47 %
Better equipment (e.g., radios, 9-1-1 systems) to more readily communicate with other first responders
45 %
More awareness of the particular needs of specific community members
40 %
Offering an access and functional needs registry
25 %
1 % Other
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The independent market research firm Researchscape conducted this survey. Respondents were 1,000 members of the public aged 18 and over in the United States. The survey was conducted in May 2023.
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