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is the managerial function charged with creating the framework
Emergency Management within which communities reduce vulnerability to threats/hazards
and cope with disasters.
Established the National Preparedness Goal, System, Whole
Presidential Policy Directive 8
Community, Annual National Preparedness Report
is more than a methodology; it is a culture to achieve unity of
Integrated Emergency
effort—a way of thinking about emergency management as a
Management
joint enterprise.
Capabilities: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response,
Preparedness Goal
Recovery
CPRICCFP
What are the Emergency
Comprehensive, Progressive, Risk-Driven, Integrated,
Management Principles
Collaborative, Coordinated, Flexible, Professional
National Planning System has Strategic, Operational, Tactical
three levels of planning
emergency managers consider and take into account all
Comprehensive threats/hazards, all phases, all stakeholders, and all impacts
relevant to disasters.
Vertical Integration Planning Individual all the way through federal/national government
Horizontal Integrations Planning Planning within the jurisdiction or level of organization.
emergency managers anticipate future disasters and take
Progressive protective, preventive, and preparatory measures to build
disaster-resistant and disaster-resilient communities.
emergency managers use sound risk management principles
Risk-Driven (threat/hazard identification, risk analysis, and impact analysis) in
assigning priorities and resources.
A plan that defines roles and responsibilities, tasks, and actions
Operational Planning during emergencies and that focuses on how activities of
organizations in the jurisdiction will be coordinated.
, emergency managers ensure unity of effort among all levels of
Integrated
government and all elements of a community.
Standardized, on-scene, all-risk, incident management concept.
The Incident Command System
ICS is the result of decades of lessons learned in the
(ICS) is?
organization and management of emergency incidents.
Emergency managers create and sustain broad and sincere
relationships among individuals and organizations to encourage
Collaborative
trust, advocate a team atmosphere, build consensus, and
facilitate communication.
Involve more than one agency and/or political jurisdiction
Involve complex management and communication issues
1. The term "major or complex
Require experienced, highly qualified supervisory personnel
incident" may have different
Require numerous tactical and support resources
meanings to different agencies
Involve multiple victims with injuries, fatalities, or illnesses
depending upon the size of the
Include widespread damage to property/environment
jurisdiction, number of resources
Result in psychological threat/trauma
available, and other variables.
Span multiple operational periods (days, weeks)
List two characteristics of major
Are costly to control and mitigate
or complex incidents:
Require extensive recovery efforts
Draw national media interest
Emergency managers synchronize the activities of all relevant
Coordinated
stakeholders to achieve a common purpose.
1. Meet the needs of the incidents of any kind or size
Designers of the system 2. Be usable for routine events or complex emergencies
recognized early that ICS must incidents
be interdisciplinary and 3. allow personnel from a variety of agencies to meld rapidly into
organizationally flexible to meet a common management structure.
the following management 4. provided logistical and administrative support to ensure that
challenges operational staff can meet incident objectives.
5. Be cost effective by avoiding duplication of efforts
emergency managers use creative and innovative approaches in
Flexible
solving disaster challenges.
2. The act of directing, ordering, (a) Command
or controlling by virtue of
explicit statutory, regulatory, or
delegated authority is the
definition of:
emergency managers value a science- and knowledge-based
Professional approach based on education, training, experience, ethical
practice, public stewardship, and continuous improvement.
Poorly managed incident Economy, to our food supply and to our health and safety.
response can be devastating to
our?
considered beginning of federal intervention into disaster relief;
was the earliest effort to provide disaster
Congressional Act of 1803
relief on a Federal level after a fire devastated a New Hampshire
town.