Emergency Management Laws And Act

The Legal Considerations of the Emergency Manager This extract will elaborate on some of the legal considerations that the emergency manager must consider when conducting searches, seizures, and evacuation operations during an emergency management activity. Unfortunately with the unforeseen nature of the emergency and/or disaster one must consider whether this event involves imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, harm, lost of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause

Emergency Legal Preparedness Preparedness is defined by DHS/FEMA as "a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective action in an effort to ensure effective coordination during incident response." This cycle is one element of a broader National Preparedness System to prevent, respond to, and recover from natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other disasters.Planning makes it possible to manage the entire life cycle of a

Emergency Management can become a costly endeavor, because sometimes disasters can come out of the blue or turn out to be more disastrous than expected. This is why, during pre-disaster emergency management, they focus on minimizing the potential costly financial results of a disaster. Any emergency responder will tell you that there are four phases in emergency management; these are: prevention, protection, mitigation, and recovery. The “All-Hazards” approach is covered in every one of these phases

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are United States agencies that deal with the coordination of response plans and strategies. The two agencies provide emergency preparedness documents which contain various disaster management plans that can be used after certain disasters such as typhoons, floods, oil spills, and many other emergencies. FEMA and EPA emergency preparedness documents have a lot in common but also differ in some ways. Some of the

Emergency management law derives from federal, state and local laws which legal responsibility may result in liability (Nicholson, p 393). When addressing the state law, the tort concept arise known as negligence (Nicholson, p 393). Also, Immunities protect emergency managers under certain conditions (Nicholson, p 393). The National Fire Protection Association and post-9/11 federal law generated new benchmarks for emergency managers to follow that resulted in federal funds for the state and local

Americans and even immigrants are afforded their basic civil rights based on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The act, which was signed into law on July 2, 1964, declared all discrimination for any reason based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin will be deemed illegal in the United States (National Park Service, n.d.). When the act was enacted, people had to become more open minded; more accepting to the various cultures and backgrounds of individuals. Understanding that concept leads

Official and Unofficial Actors Emergency management systems range from informal arrangements of neighbors helping neighbors, typically found in rural areas, to complex and formal programs offered in larger cities or at higher levels of government. All players have the same goal to increase community and national resiliency, which requires collaboration of many parties from local citizens to the president. This section focuses on key actors that shape emergency management programs in reference to people

Emergency management is a comprehensive program that manages hazards and disasters (Lindell, Prater, & Perry, 2007). Even though it is a field, it is a program. Public administration is a field that implements government policies for public services, and it is also academic discipline that prepares individuals for public services (Molina, 2015). Both emergency management and public administration depend on public fund or public budgeting, except private emergency management which depends on business

Explain the origin of emergency management and the historical factors that helped lay the foundation for the profession of emergency management. Compare and contrast aspects of emergency management relating to Hurricane Agnes of 1972 and Superstorm Sand of 2012. The history of emergency management dates back in 1803 when a great fire struck Portsmouth city in New Hampshire. In response to this firebreak out, the Congress passed into law the Congress Act, 1803 to compensate the Portsmouth merchants

Allison Taggart Federal Emergency Management Agency SEMT335-E1WW January 31, 2015 Federal Emergency Management Agency Creation The Federal Emergency Management Agency can be traced back to the Congressional Act of 1803. This act was the result of an extensive fire in a New Hampshire town needing assistance, and is generally considered to be the first piece of disaster legislation (About the Agency, 2014). Over the next century or so, disaster legislation was put to use in response to natural