SlopeWatch conducts workshops and training sessions to communities to help them start up slope monitoring programs.
AWARENESS & EDUCATION WORKSHOPS
“PROTECTING YOUR SLOPES AND YOUR COMMUNITY - MONITORING & MAINTAINING SLOPES”
Our half-day workshop provides an introduction to how slopes are made, how landslides happen, key concepts that can help you better understand how to protect slopes, and what to do when you’re caught in a landslide.
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TRAINING WORKSHOPS
“SETTING UP A SLOPE MONITORING GROUP”
Our one-day session provides steps, guidelines and how-to’s on how to set up an effective slope monitoring program with local authority involvement. Slope safety is not just about communities only; it involves the cooperation of your local leaders, your government representatives, and various government agencies.
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HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT NEW HILLSIDE DEVELOPMENTS?
Our focus is mainly on slope safety and landslide risk reduction (aka safety of lives and property), but there are various groups that can assist you if you have questions on land use and development planning. Let us know and we’ll connect you with the right people who can help.
SlopeWatch is not an advocacy on land use
We encourage developers and slope contractors to explain the slope design and construction processes to communities in public engagements and for authorities to reassure residents on compliance of slope development requirements. Beyond that, we don’t provide advocacy services on other matters of land use and development control. Our priority is slope safety, period.
SlopeWatch does not actively conduct rounds of slope monitoring around the country
We teach members of the public on how to monitor and look out for signs of landslides wherever they may be and to whom they should report. After that, it’s up the responsibility of each person to be detect and report anything amiss to the authorities. Should you run into difficulties in reporting, SlopeWatch can help.
Who do I contact to report on a failing slope?
Slopes may belong to any owner—your neighbour, a government institution, a private company or even to you—but the first line of reporting is to your local authority. But make sure you call the Engineering Department of the local authority. They will direct you to the owner of the slope. The Public Works Department can also guide you as well. But in a landslide emergency, always call 999.
