Education and community awareness programmes are grassroots initiatives that can promote caution and safety during disasters through:

Awareness raising
A little effort made towards enlightening the people about the possible threats and ways to prepare before disaster occur will make people to consider the aspect of safety before disasters are occurred.

Unfortunately some of these policies include calling for early evacuation.
Informing the people of prevention measures and how to start evacuating early will be minimizing the number of affected individuals.

Involving grassroots
Local communities may be involved in disaster operation and therefore will minimize the number of people affected.
There is a strong premise for the use of media in increasing people’s participation in disaster management processes. It could include getting time-to-time science based information for the management on the subject.

Double check on instructions can help decrease confusion at the time of disaster.

Workshops on environment: through conducting environmental workshops the issues concerning environment can be taken to the notice of the local communities and thereby make them capable of handling them own.