Preparedness & Safety
Alerts, shelter, and what is left afterwards
Understanding official warnings, protecting yourself from blast and glass, and the hazards that remain once it appears to be over — including why you never touch what might be unexploded ordnance.
Free
10 lessons
46 min
Open to everybody. No account, no payment.
Watch the course as a film
Lessons
- 01 Know what your country's warning sounds like 5 min
- 02 Where to shelter is a national question 5 min
- 03 During an alert 4 min
- 04 Blast, glass, and the two seconds afterwards 5 min
- 05 Damaged buildings stay dangerous 4 min
- 06 Suspicious objects and unexploded ordnance 5 min
- 07 After the all-clear 4 min
- 08 Reporting what you saw, safely 5 min
- 09 If somebody is missing 4 min
- 10 Afterwards, including the part nobody plans for 5 min
The other free courses
- The first hours of a crisis
- Family emergency preparedness
- First aid: what the reading covers
- At a road collision
- Drowning and rescue in water
- Severe bleeding
- Unresponsive
- Burns
- Heart attack and stroke
- Seizures and collapse
- Anaphylaxis and overdose
- Heat and cold
- Psychological first aid
- Earthquake
- Flood
- Fire and evacuation
- A chemical release
- An attack in a public place
- Unexploded ordnance and mines
- A radiological incident
- Evacuating people who cannot leave on their own
- Plague: recognising it early and protecting yourself
The rest of the Academy
Everything else the association teaches is in the Academy, free in exactly the same way: no account, no payment. Investigation and evidence, digital safety, open-source research and verification, alongside the first-aid and preparedness material here.
Open the AcademyUPA educational materials are intended for general preparedness and educational purposes. In an emergency, always follow current instructions from local authorities and emergency services. Country-specific procedures may differ.