Principles of Effective Emergency Incident Response

ESSAY 1

Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................3
Principles of effective emergency incident response........................................................3
Describe a recovery stage following an incident..............................................................4
Identify a range of examples of emergency incident, both in UK and International........4
Demonstrate the need to inform future planning and responding.....................................5
Role of public service in real world emergency incident..................................................5
Evaluate the collaborative agency working involved and lesson learned from real world
emergency incident...........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Emergency incident response refers to the efforts of business operations to face
any natural disaster. It basically include group of volunteers who plan the ways to deal
with any incident before it pertains (Zhang, Li and Liu, 2012). For the better
understanding National Health Service which is a public organisation has been selected. It
basically provides various health services such as dental treatment as well as optical care
at a very minimal charge to the local residents of UK. This report covers following topics
such as principles of effective emergency incident response and recovery stage of at
emergency incident. Further, various examples are coded on emergency incident in UK
and internationally.
Principles of effective emergency incident response
Public sector organisation must predict the emergency state and accordingly they
should response against any hazard whether it is related to natural disaster, technology
hazard or terrorist attack. Thus, management of any disaster require the partnership among
various sector such as public, private or voluntary organisation. There are basically four
phases to effectively manage emergency incident responses which are defined below
(Wang, Luangkesorn and Shuman, 2012):
Mitigate phase: Within this stage most hazardous risk are identified, once those
risk are bought into the knowledge then efforts are made to mitigate the chances of risk
that can occur in near future. Herein, NHS organisation adopts this stage to maintain
smooth functioning of Business even in upcoming years as well. Like there could be the
chances of getting existing technology obsolete so here internal department and staff
voices on those measures that can reduce the chances of damage.
Preparedness: At this stage training and development session are provided to the
internal staff. In context to NHS organisation this phase helps in building the crises team
that look for different action to deal with risk. Along with this staff participates in any
natural disaster programme such as storm ready program or rescue operation to save the
lives of people. Therefore, this helps by remain prepared before the existence of any
emergency.
Response: Organisation must operate its business in such a manner their
performances or development should not hamper the environment. Herein, NHS each
public department gives importance to environment health and safety along with the
interest of society. On the basis of planning roles are assigned to both men and women
that include actions such as ways to save the lives and prevent damage. It includes actions
such as posting emergency telephone number and installation of smoke detector that helps
at the time of emergency.
Recovery: The role of recovery stage starts after the emergency to get back to
normal state which was before the existence of any emergency. In relation to NHS if faces