Emergency management

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. According to FEMA, its mission is to “support United States citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards” (FEMA, 2015). Some of FEMA’s primary goals and objectives in regards to natural disasters include providing timely disaster

Nursing Homes did meet federal regulations for emergency plans and training at the time, many plans lacked sufficient detail recommended by disaster preparedness experts and there was a big lack of collaboration with outside State and local emergency agencies in development of these plans. To mitigate these gaps under the recommendation of DHSS, CMS published a check list for LTC facilities that provided guidance for development of stronger emergency operation plans that met those higher standards

Prior to the devastating September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, the level of preparedness of local and federal first response agencies including Fire Department of New York (FDNY), the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), and the Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) was not well organized (Kean & Hamilton, 2004). According to the Kean and Hamilton (2004) on 9/11 commission report, the following explain their prior preparedness. First, the PAPD did

In the event of a natural disaster emergency, it is the agencies responsibility to contact homeland security, red cross, and other non-profit organizations looking to provide assistance. October 29, 2017 at about 8 pm, hurricane Sandy hit the United States. Before high winds, and flooding

welfare and protection of the general public. The goal of public safety officials is to provide protection and prevention of dangers affecting the public like crimes, man-made disasters, and natural disasters. One such person who fits the mold of an emergency manager or public safety official is Mr. Eugene Holley. Mr. Holley has been involved in many disasters and crisis situations, one event in particular was Hurricane Sandy. Mr. Eugene Holley

Major types of Emergencies are the following -evacuation -explosion and bomb alerts -external emergencies and natural disasters, such as: • explosion • fire • flood • hazardous chemical spill • storm • traffic accident -internal emergencies, such as: • loss of power • loss of water supply • structural collapse -security emergencies, such as: • armed robberies • intruders • disturbed persons -serious injury events. Examples of emergencies includes • Bomb threats and suspected devices • Death

Emergency Preparedness: Planning for Disaster Response Karoline H. Maes Thomas Jefferson University College of Nursing Abstract For many years the population suffers with unpreparedness during an emergency. Disasters occur all around the world and health care executives need to guarantee that their organization develops an all-hazards emergency plan relevant to the type of organization and their location. Also, regulation and implementation of an effective plan that provides the best outcome

Attacks such as 9/11 and other recent disasters have forced organizations to become more proactive rather than waiting for an emergency to happen and then responding afterwards which leads to astronomical costs and fines to companies. The approach to risk management in organizations is looking more extensively at their technology infrastructure and deciding the best ways to recovery of data and making sure the employees can still work. Organizations have greater awareness of the importance of recovery

for each element. The system is basically designed on a cause effect relationship. One thing happens because of another which leads to a result (Haight, 2012). This model was used to develop an emergency action plan for a small community surrounding a gas station. The first step to any emergency action plan is to conduct a hazard assessment and the best way conduct to do that is to conduct a walk-through of the facility or area (Haight, 2012). In this scenario, our facility is a service station

capture the world’s attention and through its devastating effects, reinforce the importance of strengthening public health emergency preparedness and response efforts. A disaster, in public health terms, is a destructive event that results in the need for a wide range of emergency resources to assist those who are effected by the event (Geale, 2012). Thus, public health emergency preparedness and response is “the capacity of the public health and health care systems, communities, and individual, to