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I was asked to reflect on aspects of CEM and to show how it captures the aspects of PPD-8. CEM stands for comprehensive emergency management, which is being prepared for emergency situations and carrying out operations to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover from any emergencies or disasters. Overall, CEM has a lot to do with the creation of emergency operation plans (EOP). This includes the activation of incident command systems (ICS). This is a tool used for command, control and coordination of emergency response. It is also a set of personnel, policies, procedures, and facilities that can be integrated into a common organized group to improve emergency response operations of all types. One of the goals of CEM is to make effective preparedness …show more content…

The well-known phases are mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Mitigation consists of activities that allow us to decrease the negative effects of disasters. This can be as simple as finding out whether a homeowner lives in a flood zone and preparing for it. Each phase of emergency management leads to the next phase. The preparedness phase consists of making plans for different disasters. Response is known as the immediate reaction to the disaster. How a person responds to an event can greatly affect the population, environment, and government. Recovery begins initially after an emergency situation. This phase deals a lot with helping a community re-establish essential functions and re-construction efforts. Sometimes this requires a massive amount of coordination and man power to pull a community back together. Even the smallest disaster can have a huge impact on the population, the environment, and the government. When using comprehensive emergency management it is important to consider all possible impacts.
PPD-8 is a policy directive from the president of the United States of America that simply asks for federal agencies to work together as a whole and with the entire community to improve emergency preparedness. He basically made this policy to help towards preparedness activities going on in everyday life. When I say everyone it can mean the regular every day working Americans, business owners, schools etc. One of the ways that this policy reflects on CEM is that it is a very wide view policy. It is trying to use everyone to help be more prepared for all kinds of disasters throughout the

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