PSE Theme B: The responsible individual in their environment 2nde

Module B.2: Major Risks.

Notionals Analyze a risk.

Methodological Analyze and relate information.
Objectives
Implement preventive and protective measures in response to a
Educational
risk.

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General objective: To adopt behaviors to manage risky situations.
Skills developed Self-assessment scale
A B C D
Activity 1: Analyze a starting situation
ü I am capable of identifying a risk, its causes and its
consequences.
ü I am able to formulate a problem.
Activity 2: identify a major risk
ü I am able to define a major risk, a hazard, and a stake.
ü I am able to characterize major risks based on
situations taking into account the uncertainties and stakes.
ü I am able to identify the two families of major risks.
ü I am able to identify the two criteria that characterize the
major risks.
Activity 3: Major risks at the local level
ü I am able to identify major risks in my
department and my municipality.
ü I am able to identify information related to risks
majors of my municipality.
Activité 4 : Les conduites à tenir face à un risque majeur
ü I am able to identify the actions to take in case of an alert to the
population.
ü I am able to detect a public alert in the face of a
risk.
ü I am able to identify protective and safety measures.
set up in case of risks.

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 PSE Theme B: The responsible individual in their environment 2nde
Module B.2.: Major risks.

Focus on... the flood risk in the Belfort urban area.

Montbéliard-Héricourt-Delle

The urban area of Belfort-Montbéliard is a territory

densely populated with more than 300,000 inhabitants.
It is the most significant flood risk area of the
Franche-Comté region. Its overall vulnerability is
important due to the artificialization of watersheds.
The Belfort-Montbéliard urban area has been
designated as Important Risk Territory. In terms of
concerning issues, it is characterized by 89,673 people
potentially threatened, with risks having
impacts on 68,408 jobs.
The flood of February 1990 is a reference flood on the
watershed of the Savoureuse due to the combination of heavy rains and the sudden melting of a thick
snowy cloak on the Vosges.
The flood peak was reached in Belfort at noon on 15/02/1990 (209 m)3and at 4:00 PM near the
confluence with the Allan in the agglomeration of the Montbéliard region. The reaction times of the courses
Floodwaters are very fast, making flood forecasts very difficult, if not impossible. The damage
the consequences of this flood were significant.
The Peugeot-Sochaux site was severely affected directly by the damage to its
installations, and indirectly by a loss of activity related to the blockage of communication routes. At
overall, the damage estimate including material losses and those related to unperformed work, amounts to
are raised to more than 180 million euros for the industrial sector.
The elected officials in the sector are very active: protection works, dynamic slowdown,
improvements in risk culture and prevention in a broad sense have been planned.
This has made it possible to build a real policy for combating floods, particularly in the sector.
from the Montbéliard agglomeration located in the heart of a complex hydrographic junction.
Document 1: The risks of flooding in Franche-Comté.According to [Link]
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Activity 1: Analyze a starting situation

Objectif : Analyser une situation à risque.

1. Identify the elements of the situation (document 1) by completing the following diagram.

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2. Formulate the problem of the situation based on your previous analysis.

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 Activity 2: identify a major risk

Objective: To characterize and identify the major risk.

The major risk is the possibility of an event of natural or human origin, the effects of which
can involve a large number of people, cause significant damage and
exceed the reaction capacities of society.
The existence of a major risk is related to:
§ On one hand, the presence of an event or hazard, which is the manifestation of a phenomenon.
natural or human (technological);
§ Elsewhere in the existence of stakes, which represent all the people and goods
(having monetary or non-monetary value) that can be affected by a phenomenon. The
The consequences of a major risk on the stakes are measured in terms of vulnerability.
Document 2 : Composante du risque majeur. According to [Link]
major

1. In document 5, underline the definition of major risk.

In document 5, underline in green the definition of a hazard.
3. In document 5, underline in blue the definition of an issue.
4. Complete the diagrams below using the highlighted terms from document 2.

5. Using the previous answers, complete the following equation:

MAJOR RISK =.......................... X ..........................

[Link]éter le tableau ci-dessous en indiquant si la situation est un risque majeur et justifier chaque
response.

Major risk
Situations Justifications
(OUI/NON)

A seismic hazard in the middle of the desert

An earthquake above the San Andreas fault

Andréas, on the California coast, with his
large cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles..)
autour.
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The floods of the urban area of Belfort
Montbéliard (document 1).

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 Two criteria characterize major risk:
• A low frequencydisasters are rare,
• A huge gravitymany victims, significant damage to property and the environment.

Major risks are classified into two families of risks.

Technological risks Natural risks
Related to human activity (called Linked to our natural environment and climate:
anthropic) of industrial origin, nuclear, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
to the transport of hazardous materials, to the avalanches, storms, landslides
dam failure, etc.

Document 3: Major risk families and their [Link] to PSE 2ndeBacPro, ed. Foucher

7. Explain the difference between a natural risk and a technological risk using document 3.
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8. Indicate to which risk family the following risks belong.

Examples Risk family

The heatwave of the summer of 2018 in France.

The chemical explosion on September 21, 2001, at the AZF factory in Toulouse.

The avalanche of 300,000m3snow in the Chamonix valley in the

night of February 9 to 10, 1999.

The Myriam storm of 03/03/2020 in the southwest of France.

The rupture of the Malpasset dam on December 2, 1959 in the

commune of Fréjus in the south of France.

9. Indicate the two criteria that characterize major risks.

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 Activity 3: Major risks at the local level

Objective: Identify major risks at the local level.

[Link] the help of document 4, explain the roles of the mayor of a municipality in terms of protection for its...
administered against major risks.
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In order to prevent major risks, several documents are established at the level of the prefecture and the
town hall of the concerned municipalities. But it is the mayor who is responsible for ensuring the safety of the
population. All these documents can be consulted at the prefecture and town hall (on site or on the website)
internet

Document 4: Prevention within local [Link] to PSE 1eraand Tle BacPro, ed. Foucher

2. From the following website:

[Link]
mune_face_aux_risques/report?codeInsee=90010, indicate the risks that
particularly threaten your department and your municipality.

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 Activity 4: How to act in the face of a major risk

Objective: Identify the actions to be taken in the event of a public alert.

To answer the following questions, go to the Genially with the link

next :

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behaviors to adopt in the face of a major risk

Document 5: The actions to take in the face of major risks.

1. Using document 5, indicate the means put in place to inform about the occurrence of a risk.
major.
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[Link] document 8, explain the process of the two stages of the alert signal.

Alert start: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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End of alert: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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3. Using document 5, identify the safety and protection measures for the population implemented in the
place in case of major risks.
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4. Using document 5, identify the means of information available to the population to know
the actions to be taken in case of risk.
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