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Integrated Emergency Management INTRODUCTION 3 MAIN BODY3

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3P1) Legislation and Guidance to Public Services on Dealing with Emergency Incidents.....3P2) Public Services Provided Having Responsibility to Plan and Respond to EmergencyIncidents ................................................................................................................................5M1) Reporting the Circumstances and Processes for Military Support During EmergencyIncidents.................................................................................................................................6D1) Analysing Responsibilities of Public Services to meet Legislative Requirements ofEmergency Planning...............................................................................................................7P3) Role Played by Public Services in Emergency Planning.................................................7P4) Main Considerations to be Taken into Account While Planning for Emergency Situations................................................................................................................................................8M2) Importance of Emergency Planning in Emergency Situations.......................................9CONLCLUSION.............................................................................................................................9REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
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INTRODUCTIONIntegrated Emergency Management can be defined as the framework which allows thevarious levels of government to work together to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recoverfrom the emergency conditions and disasters which an economy comes across. In the followingassignment, the public sector organisation is Natural Hazards Partnership which was establishedin 2011, provides information, do research on natural hazards for the development of effectivepolicies, communications for governments and to the responder community across UK(Veenema and et. al., 2016). The assignment will further focus on the guidance and legislationprovided to public services for dealing with these disasters and the authorities responsible to dealwith these situations. Further the assignment will also provide knowledge about the importanceof being prepared and planned. MAIN BODYP1) Legislation and Guidance to Public Services on Dealing with Emergency IncidentsThe guidance to the public services is provided by major authorities who have the right tomake policies and implement them for the welfare of the UK as whole. The Legislation andGuidance provided to the public services of UK are discussed as under:Civil Contingency Act, 2004:Part 1: Local Arrangements For Civil ProtectionUnder the Part 1 of Civil Contingency Act, it makes the local authorities liable to makepre assessment of risk by making plans, and making a clear set of their roles and responsibilities.Further it also provides them with the responsibility to be prepared and manage their ownperformance from time to time in relation to deal with emergency conditions. The responders in Part 2: Emergency Powers:Under this part of Contingency Act, several temporary emergency regulations andpassing legislation which are made to deal with a particular situation and are only valid for shortperiod mainly for 30 days. These acts are introduced in order to prevent damage to humanwelfare, etc.Integrated Approach:
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It is an approach to disaster management which is adopted in order to deal with thesituations arise during disasters (Rutkow and et. al., 2014). The following approach alsoincludes both proactive and reactive strategies which are discussed as under:Anticipation: In the very first stage, an anticipation is done on the occurrence of any natural orman made disaster and also to the extent to which it can affect the economy..Emergency Planning: It tells about the planning done in order to deal with a particular situationof crisis or disaster.Preparedness: It tells to be prepared for deal with situations of crisis or disasters in order tominimise their impacts.Response: In this phase, already built up plans to deal with situations are implemented forresponding to the situation.Relief: This action is taken in order to save the affected lives from the disaster.Recovery, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation: The mist challenging phase of the disastercycle. In this phase, the destruction caused by the disaster is compensated by reconstructing andmaking the place good again to live.In case of man made disasters, the armed forces of the country also makes theircontribution by helping the government bodies in overcoming the situation. Overall many publicbodies are responsible for dealing with these situations but their joint working makes this workeasier and get better results (Rokkas, Cornell and Steenkamp, 2014). These all bodies work together to deal with these kind of major emergencies situations.Meetings are organised within various departments and bodies of the government to find out thebest solution for problem faced by the economy. These meetings comes up with an objectivewhich every body has to work upon. Voluntary Sector Civil Protection Forum is a body of UKGovernment which identifies and increases the contribution of voluntary sector towards the civilprotection arrangements so that they may also make their help in upcoming for the disaster. Levels of Command:There are three level of commands which are used to guide to the authorities which willtake proper actions to deal with them. These stages are discussed as under:Strategic Level: This level focuses on defining and supporting national policies and relatesdirectly to the outcome.
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