Emergency Management and Crisis Communications
According to FEMA, Emergency management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. It can also be defined as the process used to prepare and respond to a crisis. There are three key elements of emergency management: leadership, strategic platform, and communication plan (PSHS 6252, Unit 1 Lecture). Along with the key elements are the phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness/prevention, response, and recovery. These all play a major role in emergency management and how to handle crisis situations.
The emergency situations in both cases are hostage takeovers. Eagle Claw was a
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At one point “The question was passed up the chain to Washington, where Secretary of Defense Harold Brown relayed the situation to the national-security adviser, Brzezinski, in the White House. The national-security adviser, who only minutes earlier had been told that all six choppers were refueling and that the mission was preceding as planned, was stunned. So he directed Brown to tell the commanders on the ground that if they were prepared to go ahead with only five choppers, they had White House approval. He then left to find Carter. Though he made a quick decision that he deemed best for the situation, it ended in tragedy. the strategic planning was there, communications were great, but leadership is what caused the failure of this …show more content…
This is show in this case comparison, Carter’s bad leadership choices caused eight men lives and a great deal of military equipment lost and damaged. The strategy was apparent in the cases as well, highly skilled and trained personnel selected for the task. Both cases dealt with secrecy, but it was needed in the case of trying to retrieve these lives. The crisis communication plan was clear and concise within the Israeli raid, but it was not in Eagle claw. It seem that a chain of command was trying to be followed, but after doing much research the lines are blurred. This all leads back to great leadership. Leadership has a prominent and powerful role in society and influences all aspects of life in normal as well as crisis situations. As we have discussed throughout this course, leadership important. As I have said before, Leadership is the key to achieving high standards and efficiency to a goal. Leadership is never
Both man-made and natural disasters are often devastating, resource draining and disruptive. Having a basic plan ready for these types of disaster events is key to the success of executing and implementing, as well as assessing the aftermath. There are many different ways to create an emergency operations plan (EOP) to encompass a natural and/or man-made disaster, including following the six stage planning process, collection of information, and identification of threats and hazards. The most important aspect of the US emergency management system in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to man-made and natural disasters is the creation, implementation and assessment of a community’s EOP.
Federal Agencies help serve the United States by protecting our well-being, and making sure that we run at full efficiency. Agencies provide services to the people of the United States for many reasons. The EPA helps the environment, the FDA makes sure our food is safe to eat, and the DEA limits drug usage, and smuggling. All of these agencies have a specific job to do. An agency doesn’t deal with another agencies problems, unless they work together. One agency in particular is the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, which is under the executive branch. FEMA is an integral part in keeping our nation safe. Founded on April 1st, 1979 by then president Jimmy Carter to prevent hazards,
Emergency Management has always been an important role in government, communities, and some organizations when dealing with planning and response to emergencies and disasters. However, since the September 11th attacks and other terrorist attacks on United States soil such as the Oklahoma City bombing, or the Boston terror attack, emergency management now has a more active and upfront role. Planning for terrorist attacks is no longer if but when.
Haddow, G. D., Bullock, J. A., & Coppola, D. P. (2010).Introduction to emergency management. (4th ed., pp. 1-26). Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
FEMA has many vehicles in which they use to transport aid across the United States. Their most used vehicle is the Mobile Operations Vehicle. From here all of FEMA’s activities are coordinated and examined. Their Incident Response Vehicle usually has four to five people inside and can house ten people from the outside. This vehicle is very important when spontaneous disasters occur. They get employees along with quick and easy medical help.
FEMA The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an organization of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially formed by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and applied for two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. The initial first response to a disaster is the job of local emergency services with the help of the surrounding sources. A major disaster can be a result of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods. The event must be more than the state or local governments can handle alone.
The United States’ emergency management system prepares America and the public to emergencies within the country as a result of natural disasters, threats to homeland security, including terrorist incidents, hazardous materials incidents, or civil disturbances. When emergencies occur, man-made or natural, America has to be prepared to mitigate and respond appropriately to the emergency; therefore, reducing the risk of damage to American citizens and first responders arriving on the scene. The emergency management system allows for federal assistance to be sent to cities, states, or individuals located within disaster areas; thus, assisting the communities in mitigating the disaster. When Americans know that a disaster is imminent or has already
This framework consist of 4 areas which refered to 4 phases of disaster management continuum concept; prevention/mitigation, preparedness, respond and recovery/rehabilitation/reconstruction. It has 10 domain of competencies; 1. Risk reduction, disease prevention and health promotion; 2. Policy development and training; 3. Communication and information sharing; 4.
Emergency management is often described in terms of “phases,” using terms such as mitigate, prepare, respond and recover. The main purpose of this assignment is to examine the origins, underlying concepts, variations, limitations, and implications of the “phases of emergency management.” In this paper we will look at definitions and descriptions of each phase or component of emergency management, the importance of understanding interrelationships and responsibilities for each phase, some newer language and associated concepts (e.g., disaster resistance, sustainability, resilience, business continuity, risk management), and the diversity of research perspectives.
There has been a great deal of changes regarding emergency management since the time it was originally started over 30 years ago. Its evolvement has been as a direct result of learning from mistakes and a desire to have a strong process in line to help our nation handle disasters quickly and efficiently. Many people may believe that being prepared is all that it takes to get through a disaster; however, this could not be further form the truth. Preparedness does indeed play a huge role in managing disasters, but what other key factors should we pay attention to?
In order to be able to recover from the damages with ease, the responses to disasters have to be very sudden too. The only way to respond to disasters quickly is to have an effective emergency preparedness plan. Emergency preparedness is an important strategy needed to reduce the damages and injuries that could be caused by disasters. Having an emergency plan helps determining the steps that should be taken to protect homes and people. When preparing an emergency plan, unrecognized dangerous conditions that would aggravate an incident can be discovered and can be worked on to be eliminated.
I have thought long and hard about what would be a great career path for me. Doing this has been a great help for me and it allowed me put myself in the career that I am working to obtain. This gives me more insight so with this research I am able to look deep within this career and see how much I can do. I want to pursue a career in Emergency management, this field is a rather new field to study for. As an Emergency Management specialist I will be responsible for handling natural disaster, and maybe a few man made disasters.
Emergency plan also very important because its can give direction for people in case something happen in the building for example fire, flooded, tornado and etc. According to International Records Management Trust(Emergency Planning for Records and Archives Services) means of emergency plan is Policies and procedures developed by an organisation to be used during an emergency or disaster to prevent or minimise damage to an organization , its people and its
Of the four phases of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, perhaps the place that individuals can make the biggest difference in their own state of resiliency and survival of a disaster is in the preparedness phase. Being prepared before a disaster strikes makes sense yet many people fail to take even simple, precautionary steps to reduce the consequences of destruction and mayhem produced by natural events such as earthquakes, volcanos and tornados (see Paton et al, 2001, Mileti and Peek, 2002; Tierney, 1993, Tierney et al, 2001).
The increase in unpredictable natural disasters events for a decade has led to put the disaster preparedness as a central issue in disaster management. Disaster preparedness reduces the risk of loss lives and injuries and increases a capacity for coping when hazard occurs. Considering the value of the preparatory behavior, governments, local, national and international institutions and non-government organizations made some efforts in promoting disaster preparedness. However, although a number of resources have been expended in an effort to promote behavioural preparedness, a common finding in research on natural disaster is that people fail to take preparation for such disaster events (Paton, 2005; Shaw 2004; Spittal, et.al, 2005; Tierney, 1993; Kenny, 2009; Kapucu, 2008; Coppola and Maloney, 2009). For example, the fact that nearly 91% of Americans live in a moderate to high risk of natural disasters, only 16% take a preparation for natural disaster (Ripley, 2006).