Please choose a public emergency event that has occurred in the last two weeks and, focusing on one of the emergency management phases – mitigation, preparedness, response or recovery– write a one- two page summary, sort of like a situation report or SITREP, of how you might improve on the situation. Your SITREP should include a brief overview of the event along with your analysis, lessons learned and recommendations.
The summary should be submitted using 12 point Times New Roman font and double spaced.
The public Emergency event I choose is Astro World Tour with Travis Scott and the Mass casualty event that took place. The phase I want to focus on a preparedness. Ive provided a link of one article but you can look for more to help with the summary, also to find information about the steps taken to prepare for this event. I also provided some background.
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COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Comprehensive Emergency Management is the concept which ensures that all aspects of anticipating, minimizing the risks from, preparing for and recovering from, an emergency are systematically addressed. The generic planning process previously referenced underscores the most common approach to effectively dealing with emergencies and is embodied in the logic of Comprehensive Emergency Management as a concept. Comprehensive Emergency Management consists of four phases: •Mitigation; •Preparedness; •Response; and, •Recovery.
FOUR PHASES OF EMERGENCY PLANNING These four phases are the cornerstones to a Comprehensive Emergency Management Planning effort. Each phase will be discussed in detail in subsequent chapters. Within each phase, certain types of emergency plans will be created or certain analysis called for. In each of these sub-areas it is the six steps of the generic planning process which will provide the framework for ensuring each subcomponent remains up to date and relevant. In this fashion, the overall purpose of Comprehensive Emergency Management is achieved and retained at a relevant and functional level.
MITIGATION Mitigation involves identifying potential hazards faced by a community and assessing possible impacts. By employing risk management techniques it may be possible to reduce, deflect or altogether avoid possible impact.
PREPAREDNESS Preparedness is what most people commonly associate with an emergency plan. It is the phase where response agencies prepare through training and equipment procurement for the event of likely emergencies. Hazard-specific preparedness plans will be developed for specific emergencies while managers prepare to exercise critical decision making in a highly compressed environment and timeframe. Inventories of the items possibly needed to be called upon are also compiled.
RESPONSE Response is the phase where the Preparedness Plan is executed. Trained and exercised staff should automatically deploy knowing just what to do, based on a properly prepared plan. The response aspect is crisis management and will only be as successful as the effort put into the preparedness phase. The response is not the time to be conducting preparedness-type activities such as compiling lists of providers of generators or heavy equipment. This information must be at one’s fingertips for immediate reference.
RECOVERY Recovery is the most prolonged aspect of Comprehensive Emergency Management. A critical aspect of recovery is ensuring the continued provision of the services normally provided by local governments. Some residents will be impacted more or less than others and those residents will want service levels restored to as close to normal as possible as soon as is practical. Accounts payable and receivable, for example, will need to continue so careful thought needs to be given to critical business functions. This will be in addition to the coordination of other recovery events such as post-emergency building evaluation and accounting for residents. Each aspect of Comprehensive Emergency Management forms a complete chapter and will be thoroughly reviewed in turn.
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