emergency management

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

OVERVIEW

• Emergency is a sudden unforeseen situation( usually involving danger/pain/bleeding or life threatening) that requires immediate action or attention.

• During an emergency , one should expect confusion and an interruption of communication link. Condition may become chaotic. An emergency plan should enable those responsible for recovery to focus on solving major problems .

• Responding promptly to an emergency may prevent it from substantial loss.

• An emergency plan should provide the basis for orderly actions and making decisions that minimize loss.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

• The logical beginning of emergency management is the development of a plan that does the following.

• Defines an emergency in terms relevant to the organisation. e.g. Bomb threat, Fire, Explosion

• Flood, Active shooting , Armed robbery, heart attack etc.

• Establishes a team to perform specific tasks, before, during and after an emergency.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

• Establishes a method for using available resources and for obtaining additional resources at the time of an emergency.

• Provides a means for moving normal operations into and back out of the emergency mode of operations.

ELEMENTS OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

PREPAREDNESS

Preparedness involves actions taken before an event to plan, organize, equip, train and exercise to ensure an effective response such as public education, emergency information, training and exercises, preparing plans and operation centres and establishment of communication systems.

MITIGATION & PREVENTION

• Actions taken/ activities which reduce or eliminate the effects of an emergency. Such as:

• Protecting Hotel guest, staffs, contractors, visitors and the facilities in order to decrease the vulnerability to injury or damages.

• Preventing the emergency or occurrence of a hazard.• Containing the hazard in order to change its nature

and thus lessen its threat.

RESPONSE

• Response include the immediate actions taken to save lives, property and meet basic human needs. (manage victims: treat, triage, transfer , disposition)

• Addresses short term and direct effects of an incident • Execution of emergency operations plans and of

mitigation activities designed to limit the loss of life, personal , injury, property damage, and other unfavourable outcomes.

• Applying intelligence & other information to lessen the effects or consequences of an incident.

RECOVERY

• This involves near – terms and long – term action taken to return the organisation to a pre – emergency level of operation or to a new level of operation.

• All effort may include implementation of continuity of operation or business resumption plans, activation of emergency relocation sites, and reconstruction or restoration at the original location or new permanent location. Such as operational, financial and return to normal operations.

AED REFRESHERS

GENERAL SAFETY – A SINGLE SECOND

• It takes a minutes to write a safety rule.• It takes an hour to hold a safety meeting.• It takes a week to plan a good safety program.• It takes a month to put that program into operation.• It takes a year to win a safety award.• It takes a lifetime to make a safe worker.• But it takes only a second to destroy it all- with one

accident.• Take the time now to work safe and help your fellow

associates to be safe.