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Integrated Emergency Management Assignment

   

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INTEGRATEDEMERGENCYMANAGEMENT
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3P5 Principles of Emergency Incidents Response...................................................................3P6 Various Recovery Stages in Emergency Incident.............................................................5M3 Need of debrief to inform future planning & responding................................................6P7 Examples of Emergency Incidents....................................................................................8M4 Role of public services in emergency incidents...............................................................9D2 Explain a real world emergency incidents........................................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONIntegrated emergency management is a strategic approach to reduce the cause of thedisaster. This approach helps in analysing, coordinating, directing, managing and controllingemergency incidents effectively and efficiently. They aim at taking strategic decision andformulating plan in order to reduce the risk by effectively managing the cost and financialresources. This study will highlight emergency incidents which are managed by the agencies andpublic services. This study will include principles of effective emergency response and also focuson recovery stage in emergency incident. This study will further highlight, examples related withemergency incidents which are both UK based and international. P5 Principles of Emergency Incidents ResponseEmergency incidents are handled and controlled by central, state and federal governmentby conducting & organising various Emergency management programmes. Government ofUnited Kingdom also formulate various provisions and acts which helps citizens of country fromany hazards affects (Common, Flynn and Mellon, 2016).Civil Contingency Act, 2004 is formulated government of UK for managing adversecontingency situations and conduct events for increasing awareness among individuals so thatthey are aware about all type risk arising from emergency situations. Objective behindformulation of this acts is welfare of individuals of UK. Various Civil Protection facilities arealso offered by different type of Public Services such as Fire Brigade, Police, Ambulance,National Health care Services and environment agencies. To protect & manage hazards affectsfrom various situations of Flood, Earthquake, Disaster, Heavy Rainfall and Fire. All these public services are responsible for making a research on effected areas andhandling situations immediately. Further, Government of UK also formulate a law in 2005named as Civil Planning Act, 2005 with an objective of collecting information by conducting aresearch so that various public service department can plan & control emergency incidents. Principles of emergency management are categorised into four phase which arediscussed below-Mitigation- This is the 1st Phase in which various hazards risk are assessed by PublicService department of UK so that all these risks can be prevented. After that an evaluation ismade on different types if risks as which types of risk is more hazards and need to be mitigated
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immediately. An annual assessment of risks is done and on that basis a plan for next year ismade. So, individuals does not get affected from any calamities in future.Preparedness- According to this principle of Emergency Management Training is givento staff members & employees of emergency management services. Training programmes isorganised with the aim of developing responsibility & response to different emergencysituations. Disaster Training Programmes are conducted by government of United Kingdom inwhich various activities such as Table-Top, Full scale exercise and Scale ready programmes areconducted so the members are prepared for handling contingent situations any time itoccurs(Pahl, 2016). Response-As per this principle feedback is taken from individuals of country as to whattype of negative affects they are suffering and to check that facilities provided by managementdepartments are affective or not. Response are also taken from individuals of agencies Health &Safety Department, Disaster Management Department and Public Safety Department and thisrepose is related to emergency situations such as Fire, Flood and Earth Quake. Thus, it is alsoknown as Principle of Multi Agency Framework.Recovery- This principle focuses on recovering all the effects caused from emergencysituations. Damages done by different situations is to be recovered so all the things gets backnormal or same as they are before disaster. This also Known as Principle of Control. Some moreprinciples of effective incident management are discussed below-Strategic Coordinating Group (SCG)- A group is formed according to this principleand objective of this group is to give support to all agencies & departments which are handling &managing disaster management by helping them in preparation of plans and assessment ofHazards Risks. Thus, this helps in formulating strategies and policies for preventing all types ofcontingent risks. This group also control and manage all agencies (Haynes, 2015). Media- This Principle is essential for establishing communication with public and withdifferent agencies so that it helps in developing multi agency framework. Communication isfacilitated with the help of different modes such as Radio, Television, Print Media, Internet andSocial Media Sites. This is also a principle of response which is mostly used by MetropolitanPolice for sharing information regarding contingent emergencies. To increase awareness amongpeople. Communication also helps in tracking situation of different areas.
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