The training courses for the next few days fall under Work Package 2: Emergency Response or crisis management. Focused on monitoring and protecting our dikes during special circumstances, especially high water. As far as dike monitoring is concerned, we basically go through the entire process of inspection, diagnosis, prognosis and implementation. We will train from 7-11 October to inspect as dike watchers, using the new dike monitoring app (APP2C), among other things. In training 2, we will train on giving instructions, aimed at dike monitoring and on the implementation of emergency measures. wants to state: the project is a so-called living lab. Training 1: the focus in training 1 is on inspection of the dike, (for inexperienced) dike guards. After a briefing, we will inspect the dike (approx. 2 km) with you (people who will be deployed now or in the future for dike monitoring under special circumstances). You learn to inspect the dike using a prod, among other things, and discuss what is urgent. And you put that damage in the dike monitoring app App2C. We inspect in daylight. Except on October 11, when we have an evening shift where you use a heat camera, among other things. We start in the light and then it slowly gets dark (what do you see). In the appendix you will find 3 sheets with the main points.Training 2: the focus on instructing dike guards, but also on implementing emergency measures. Specific attention to safety.

Clothing: suitable for weather (waterproof-thick-layers-fluorescent-cap-gloves) and good footwear. For emergency measures: helmet, work gloves, safety shoes? Depending on expectations: life jacket and rope, flashlights Shears to cut barbed wire, bolt cutters to open fences