The Module is intended to equip you with knowledge
and skills in explaining the meaning of Vulnerability.
After going through this module, you are expected
to:
1. define vulnerability;
2. determine what makes a community vulnerable or not;
3. assess events situations delicately to identify
vulnerability level and coping capacity and ability; and
4. manage personal beliefs through knowing the
importance of identifying exposure and vulnerability to
disaster.
Vulnerability can determine the ability of a
person or a group to predict, cope with, resist
and recover from the effects of a natural or
human-induced threat.
As vulnerability increases, it means that the
population is at greater risk of suffering from
a severe natural danger.
What’s In
Direction: Spot the hazard. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
2. Give at least three (3) potential scenarios
from each picture that can occur due to the
presence of hazard?
What’s New
Inspection Time!!
Direction: Since being safe and protected is the number one GOAL of every
family, let us conduct an ocular inspection of your house and backyard to ensure
your family’s safety against hazards and disasters.
Follow the steps below:
1. Tour around your house including the backyard and assess if there is/ are
hazards observed in your house.
2. As much as possible, make a list of all the hazards that you will be observed.
3. Using all the hazards that you listed, determine what could be the possible
events that may put you and your family at risks.
4. Who among the family members are prone or susceptible to the listed
hazards?
5. Identify the reasons why that member of that family is vulnerable.
Guide Questions:
1. Based on your assessment from the tour that you made, how will
you define vulnerability in your own words?
2. After knowing the hazards in your house, what is your plan of action
to avoid harm?
What is It
Vulnerability Defined
Vulnerability is a state of being at risk. According to
Republic Act 10121 also known as ‘Philippine Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010’,
vulnerability is defined as the characteristics and
circumstances of a community, system or resource that
make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.
With all the identified hazard at home, there is a possibility
that some family members might be susceptible or prone to
the accident due to the presence of hazard.
Vulnerability is also situation specific. This means that if a
specific province is prone to earthquake, it does not mean that all
localities on that province is vulnerable to it. The vulnerability of
different towns or cities or even provinces differ in the way
they prepare for the hazard and the amount and type of
resources they have in order prevent and manage it. To lessen
vulnerability means to make the community prepared and ready
for the possible damaging effect of the hazard. This further means
that to make the community less vulnerable, it must be resilient.
So, to develop resiliency at home, you should first identify the
hazards and be prepared all the time for the possible outcome
and respond immediately.
Moreover, it is also hazard specific. A
community that is vulnerable to
earthquake hazard does not
necessarily mean that it is also
vulnerable to typhoons. Hazards have
different traits that can influence the
disasters possible to happen.
What I Have Learned
Direction: Based on the story given in “What’s more” activity, answer the
following questions briefly.
1. If you are going to base your definition of vulnerability on the story given,
how will you define it?
2. Could it be possible that both students are exposed to the same hazard, but
they can have different level of vulnerability? Explain how.
3. Vulnerability situation specific or hazard specific? Explain.
4. Cite your realization/s about the importance of knowing one’s capability,
strength, and exposure to hazards.
