Disaster Risk Management Practices and Readiness for Disasters among Selected Schools in City of Biñan, Laguna, Philippines
Araceli Cerdeña Corpuz

Abstract
Everyone must be prepared as disasters can happen anywhere – at home, at the workplace or at school. Disaster plans should be in place to at least lessen the impact of disasters on peoples’ lives especially. This descriptive-correlation study involved thirty (30) schools in City of Biñan, Laguna. The schools have very high level of implementation of disaster risk management practices for earthquakes, high level of implementation of disaster risk management practices for fires and floods, and high level of readiness for disasters. Schools with land area of one hectare and above had higher level of implementation of disaster risk management practices for earthquakes. Private schools and those with land area of 1-2 hectares had higher level of implementation of disaster risk management practices for fires. Private schools have higher level of implementation of disaster risk management practices for floods and have higher level of readiness for disasters than public schools. The higher is the schools’ level of implementation of disaster risk management practices, the higher is their level of readiness for disasters.

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