Examples Of High Priority For Mitigation And Contingency Plans

Greenville County’s disaster preparedness plans and resources are maintained by the Emergency Operations Center. The Emergency Operations Center “is the physical location where emergency management and support personnel come together during an emergency to coordinate response and recovery efforts and allocate available resources” (“Emergency Preparedness,” 2015). Greenville County Hazards include naturally occurring events such as dam/levee failure, drought, flooding, tornados, tropical storms, and winter storms; as well as hazardous materials (HazMat) events including fixed facility accidents, nuclear accidents, pipeline accidents, and transportation accidents. Hazardous materials events are of particular concern due to the fact that “Greenville County has more than 1,400 miles of state-maintained highways, numerous railroad lines, and many industrial manufacturing plants that use hazardous materials”

This chapter provides an overview that describes the basic types of hazards threatening the United States and provides definitions for some basic terms such as hazards, emergencies, and disasters. The chapter also provides a brief history of emergency management in the federal government and a general description of the current emergency management system—including the basic functions performed by local emergency managers. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the all-hazards approach and its implications for local emergency management.

Once a disaster is declared, then the disaster is classified according to the level of response needed to cope with the situation. This incident is declared a Level I disaster according to the local community disaster plan.

These events included major disasters and declared emergencies consisting of ice storms, hurricanes, tropical storms, floods and drought (City-data.com, n.d.). Flooding is a common problem associated with most these events and the most common injuries noted with floods could be drowning as well as injuries such as fractures from contact with debris. Common problems associated with these events would be displaced families, and power outages making children, seniors, and those individuals suffering from chronic health problems the most at risk. After this type of disaster there could be the risk of infections due to contaminated food or water, insect borne diseases, respiratory infections and infected wounds following

From major toxic gas releases to bombings there has been an incremental increase in recognition to industrial accidents and how they can affect the lives of us all. The emergency planning process can have serious ramifications on the people and the environment when it is not managed appropriately (Erickson, 1999). September 11, 2001 the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed 56 minutes after being struck. Only 14 people that were in the impact zone survived. If the use of high rise elevators had been evaluated people in that impact zone could have possibly made it to the ground in as much time as 40 minutes which would have saved numerous lives (Pigg, 2013, p.5). Tragedies like this are why it is important to respond to emergencies in a way that minimizes harm to people and the risk mitigation starts by

The area of which I live in is Mission Hills, CA. Upon researching the hazards in my area, I realized that my immediate/specific area of Mission Hills did not have too many hazards. Surrounding areas, although, did. I decided to observe and record close by areas as well as parts of the Los Angeles County rather than the entire Los Angeles County.

Hazard Analysis: A hazard analysis of the city of New York was determined depending on several risk factor values that included the duration, warning time, spatial extent, probability, and impact. The greater risk was determined by a higher risk factor. Some of the human-caused, natural, and technological hazards recorded included landslides, wild fires, earthquakes, canal failure, dams, landslides, drought, volcanic eruptions, the wind, tornadoes, lightning, severe storms, civil disturbances, cyber disruptions, radiological and hazardous material (Hoffman,

Klamath County has adopted a number of plans to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its citizens during and after disasters or emergencies. These plans all share the similar goal of minimizing the damages incurred by future disasters and include elements of all four phases of emergency management. All plans maintained by the county are revised and updated regularly to ensure that they meet the continually changing needs of both the county and its citizens. Plans that Klamath County currently coordinates and maintains include:

Lee County faces the natural elements of nature on multiple fronts. One of the vastly populated areas in the state that encompasses five different counties in some of the lowest levels of wetlands in the state. Given that Lee County is prone to flooding when a summer afternoon thunder comes up it has the potential to flood multiple counties. When a tropical storm or worse move in, flooding is a significant concern. It can have a significant impact on the communities. By taking an all-hazards approach and mitigation planning will help to protect lives, properties, and the environment. Schwab points out that all Florida governments are required to have a Local Comprehensive Plan, Coastal Element of the Comprehensive Plan, County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP), Local Mitigation Strategy, and a

The Saint Louis County emergency Operations plan has the fundamental mission of establishing the emergency guidelines for the County and other offices to follow during a major incident or disaster situation ("St Louis County BEOP," 2013). It includes all requirements for request for assistance and informs at all levels what their responsibilities are during a response incident. The plan was designed to address all hazards that affect the county and everyone that lives in it. This is a plan that does not limit the individual response efforts of the various entities that are involved on responding to any hazard situation. The Plan is designed to provide the general frame work but allows for the innovative measures to be

Hurricane Katrina in many cases was an unfortunate learning experience for emergency management and preparedness. Concentrating on the larger mitigation issues may prove to be the priority opposed to the smaller issues, along with focusing upon risk assessment (Averill, 2005). Risk assessment in emergency management is key to identifying those potential hazards that a particular threat may be likely to impact the area. For example, I reside on the east coast by the beach where the area has a higher threat for hurricanes compares to a community in Iowa. A higher risk assessment for specific threats require a plan and, or mitigation steps.

In Ontario if you have lost your job several factors in your legal claim against the employer can decide whether your damages are awarded in full or reduced. We examine the subject of mitigation when it comes to your job search efforts and how they can strengthen or weaken your case.

The purpose of a risk assessment plan, and especially this one in particular, is to analyze the threats or dangers to the Defense Logistics Information Service, which is the largest logistics combat support agency for the Department of Defense. A proper risk assessment plan is vital to protect both the information we store for the military, as well as the troops and civilians that would be in danger should this data be compromised.

The Topsham community in Portland, Maine pertinent risks and hazards will be discussed. It 's current state of readiness is exceptional. The purpose of the Topsham community Hazard Mitigation Plan is to provide a comprehensive set of guidelines for hazard response and mitigation in the community. The plan identifies potential risks with appropriate mitigation responses to significantly reduce loss of life, injuries, economic costs, and destruction of natural and cultural resources. As the occurrences of the hazards identified in this plan are unpredictable, the plan itself will continue to evolve and be evaluated. With this, the mitigation strategies and maintenance process will be labeled as ongoing. The mitigation strategies and maintenance of the plan provide direction for the future of mitigation activities within the state and the process will continue until changed for any valid reason. The community has made progress on

A project to manufacture, deliver and install a large power transformer is time and resource (material and labour) consuming, relies on services and products provided by more than one supplier, involves multiple expertise, and costs tens of millions of Rands. If a transformer fails, the cost of rectification can go as high as over 70% of the price of a new one. By so saying, risk management and contingency planning plays a key role in the management of such a project. In this report, the need and process of risk management as well as the types of risks in relation to the power transformer project are discussed.