Disaster Management Plan

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Introduction
Disaster management Plan comprises of planning the activities before and after any
emergency or disaster. The plan includes the concept of what has to be done during such
disaster activity that will allow the people to understand in depth regarding the hazard and
can appropriately create a disaster plan (Hanes, 2016). There are two primary components of
the disaster management plan namely hazard & Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) and Signature
Assignment Paper. This study will focus on the construction of a disaster management plan
for the disaster Wild fires in San Diego and include the components of the disaster
management in Wild fires in San Diego. The risk factors and hazards are highlighted in the
study that will provide a path for planning a detailed disaster management plan as the
community members will focus on those risk factors and tend to reduce the possibility of the
disaster (Vivekananda, 2017).
1. Hazard & Vulnerability Analysis (HVA)
Hazard & Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) is defined as the process for recognizing highest
vulnerability within the hospital setting related to man-made or natural hazard and also
determine the effect of these hazard that will affect the community and the hospital directly
or indirectly. Hazard & Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) permit the hospital to determine the
standards and demands during such emergency services that would be crucial for the people
under such crisis (Frigerio & De Amicis, 2016). This analysis will also permit the community
members to determine the preventive measures that can be considered in response to the
disaster plan and help the population to understand these measures and work accordingly.
The primary step in hazard & vulnerability analysis is to identify the hazard that might be
responsible for the wild fire that took place in San Diego. Hazard is considered as the series
of extreme events that comprise of all probable disaster irrespective of individual likelihood,

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potential outcome and geographical impact. The hazards included in this disaster
management plan of wild fires in San Diego are removal of vegetation, plant fire, generating
defensible space in both normal condition and drought condition and not removing ignitable
shrubs or tress that further result in wild fire (Butry & Thomas, 2017). The listing of the
hazard will be helpful or beneficial for the community or hospital members as they can
categorize the hazard based on their critical nature and later can determine what emergency
planning should be made based on the identified hazard. Once the hazards are identified, each
individual hazard is evaluated or assessed for its organization risk, probability of occurrence
and recent level of preparedness within the organization. The second step included in the
Hazard & Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) is to determine the probability of the disaster that
can affect the population either directly or indirectly (Gonzalez & March, 2018). In order to
determine the probability of the events it is very significant to identify the internal technology
and availability of the backup system. Reports on system failure and service records will
assist the community members to assess the likelihood of the disaster and what proportion of
the population are affected due to this disaster. The probability part of the Hazard &
Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) help the members to identify if the disaster is caused through
man-made activity or through natural activity, accidental or non-accidental and local or non-
local accident. The probability of disaster occurrence can be identified by highlighting crime
statistics and local accident data where a detail background of the disaster is explained
(Hutchinson et al., 2018). Various assessment tool is present that is used for evaluating the
probability of the disaster occurrence like hazard vulnerability analysis tool. This tool is used
for assessing the vulnerability of the hazard and is often used as resource or starting point for
identification of the hazard in the disaster management plan. In this tool, each individual
hazard is evaluated based on the score obtained from probability area, preparedness and risk
(Rivera, Tehler & Wamsler, 2015). The score obtained for each hazard will assist the hospital

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and community members to estimate the risk of the hazard that result in disaster. Hence,
according to the disaster management plan for wild fires in San Diego, it is crucial for the
organization to evaluate each hazard that is present in the wild fires and determine the score
of each hazard that would allow the community members to develop the disaster plan and
that will also help the members to construct different preventive strategies that would reduce
the risk of disaster in the future (Mock, 2017). The final step present in the Hazard &
Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) is estimating the risk of the disaster and the impact each of the
hazard has on the population. The risk associated with the disaster should be analysed that
will include the factors affecting the population. The primary risk that is associated with the
hazard are as follows (Fan et al., 2015):
 Threat to safety and health
 System failures
 Economic loss
 Danger to human lifecycle
 Legal ramifications
 Property damage
 Damage of community goodwill
The threat or danger to the human life is associated with the hazard of the disaster and it
is crucial for the community members to reduce the risk of safety and health as they have to
focus on each individual risk and determine the preventive strategies that would assist the
population to educate themselves and reduce any man-made approach of increasing the risk
of the disaster due to any man-made cause (Fardhosseini, Esmaeili & Wood, 2015). It is
crucial for the community members to identify the factors and how these factors impact the
health of the population by categorizing the risk factors under different category like high,
low and moderate category (Haddow, Bullock & Coppola, 2017). Hence, the first category