We cater for the following Disaster Management Services

  • Institutional Capacity Development
  • Preparedness and Early Warning Systems
  • Disaster Assessment and Mobilisation
  • Response Planning and Implementation
  • Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Scope of Services We are able to participate in prevention, emergence response and training for handling the following disasters minimizing risk to life, property and investments
  • Floods
  • Fire
  • Droughts
  • Epidemics
  • Accidents
  • Industrial disasters

Our operations are designed towards

  • Ensuring preparedness for the Nation for any disaster occurrence
  • Coordinating warning, emergency response and relief operations in major emergency events
  • Encouraging and supporting mitigation measures
  • Providing training in all areas of disaster management
  • Promoting a greater national awareness for disaster management issues through
  • public education and awareness
  • Conducting hazard identification assessments and research
  • Establishing and maintaining mutual assistance and co-operation agreements amongst partner agencies and international donor organizations.

Scope of Services

Scope of Services We are able to participate in prevention, emergence response and training for handling the following disasters minimizing risk to life, property and investments

Support Services

Hexagon Technologies and Project Enterprises uses qualified technical specialists to support all disaster management solutions in the field and to reduce the risk of loss or damages.

They are assisted with by work teams and sufficient equipment and machinery to handle any disasters arising.

We utilise satelite technologies, Geographic Information System and other technological applications to predict occurrence, assess the extent of damage caused, or to forecast the further spread of any disaster to other areas, as well as to gain vital information for search and rescue operations.

Interventions

Disasters are managed in a parallel series of activities rather than in a sequence of actions. The different strands of activities or actions continue side by side, expanding or contracting as needed.

For example, immediately after a disaster event - such as a flood - the "relief and response" strand will expand to cope with the immediate effects of the disaster. But as time passes, the "recovery and rehabilitation" strand - including prevention to mitigate against possible future disasters - will expand to address the rehabilitation needs of the affected community. In the case of droughts, for example, drought relief, recovery and mitigation may often occur at the same time.

Community involvement is always part of our disaster management approach. Community awareness of disasters can greatly reduce the overall costs of such events. In Laingsburg in 1981 people had not previously experienced severe flooding and were therefore completely unprepared when a severe flood hit the town. As a result of this unpreparedness, 104 lives were lost during the flood. By contrast, the floods which struck Ladysmith in 1994 caused relatively little loss of life.

This was largely because the low-lying areas around Ladysmith are frequently flooded and the risk of disasters is higher. The community is therefore better prepared for the disaster and better able to limit its effects. To us awareness includes all the people concerned and not merely officials.