What type of content is the emergency response guide?

Its core is a practical-oriented tool content. Depending on the applicable scenarios, it will also superimpose three attributes: public science popularization, industry standards, and internal management. There is no absolutely unified standard for classification.

What we usually come into contact with the most are emergency guides with public science attributes, such as the fire escape guide posted in the corridor of the community and the norovirus household emergency response guide issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are all of this type - they will not tell you too much about the principles of fire combustion and virus pathogenic mechanisms. They will first give you practical actions, just like a simplified version of the recipe when you are cooking. Just follow the step by step when encountering something. During last year's flood season in southern China, many communities issued guides for escaping from underground garages. They also specially marked the optimal point of force for smashing a car window as a striking red circle. Even girls with weak strength could use it to find the right position, which is very practical.

If placed in professional fields such as industry and medical care, the nature of emergency response guidelines changes and becomes more of a mandatory industry standard. For example, the hazardous chemical leakage emergency guide posted in the production area of ​​a chemical plant must be reviewed and filed by the safety supervision department. Each step of operation has a clear division of rights and responsibilities. If the operation is wrong, it will not only result in ineffective disposal, but also may lead to corresponding legal liability. At this time, it is no longer ordinary science content, but is essentially a subset of industry operating standards.

There are also many internal emergency guides for enterprises, such as the Internet company's core server failure emergency response guide and the restaurant chain's food contamination emergency response guide. They are typical internal management tools and are only open to internal employees. They are essentially a lightweight version of the enterprise's emergency response SOP. The purpose is to allow front-line employees to minimize losses when encountering emergencies without waiting for approval at all levels.

There are now many differences in its classification in the content industry. Those who work on popular science content think that emergency guides for the public are a branch of popular science content, those who work on compliance think that professional emergency guides belong to the category of normative documents, and those who work on business operations think that internal guidelines belong to management documents. In fact, all of these opinions are valid, but everyone enters into different scenarios.

To put it bluntly, to judge whether a piece of content is an emergency response guide, you don’t have to worry about its classification label at all. When you encounter a corresponding emergency situation, you can pick it up and use it, and can quickly reduce risks and losses. Then it is a qualified emergency response guide, which is also the core value of this type of content.