Muireann-understanding Emergencies, Warnings and Risks

Emergency

noun
A serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.

An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation

if we were to take Covid-19 as an example of how would this project help people in an emergency situation by intervening in some cases. By warning the person about the risks.

Warning

noun

something that makes you understand there is possible dangers or problems, especially one in the future.

we need to make suitable warnings for each member who looks at the app or website by taking into account their location and how it can affect what type of warning is issued each country should be abiding by what is being said by their own government is issuing or what local councils are saying and not what other countries are facing or being able to filter through the fake news.

Risk

noun

the possibility of something bad happening.

Risk is the potential for uncontrolled loss of something of value. Values (such as physical health, social status, emotional well-being, or financial wealth) can be gained or lost when taking risk resulting from a given action. To have people understand the risks and made aware it is much more likely that they will not take it if advised otherwise. It is about informing the person to make their own educated decision with all the facts and statistics given to them and understanding if they were to do anything it's at their own risk.

there are different levels of risks for different age categories so we have to make sure when designing it that we add location age gender and health issues to better understand a person's risk

It is vital when making a public warning system to understand what these words mean as you have to asses the types of emergencies, warnings and risks that are required for each case.