HET 301A Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management Alexandra Murray Student Number: 00066337T APM College Katherine Hawes Risk refers to the probability of something occurring that will have an effect on objectives. Disaster refers to a sudden event that disrupts a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. (IRFC, 2015) Crisis, on the other hand, is any situation which has the prospective to shake long-term confidence in an institution or a product, or that may interfere with its capability to continue normally functioning. The tourism industry is mainly comprised of the airline, …show more content…
To help in mitigating some of the health risks, they obey certain health warnings in less developed countries such as Thailand and Mexico where drinking tap water is not advised. Tourists can also take part in some of the disaster preparedness practices like drills and trainings on evacuation processes. It has proved to be a very effective way of saving lives in a case of a disaster or crisis event happening in their respective accommodation areas.(Ritchie, 2008). Many tourists on holidays have proved that the use of safety material put in place by hotels has been effective. Again with the example of Thailand, most hotels will warn guests by supplying notices in rooms advising not to drink tap water at any costs and provide bottled water for guests to prevent them from becoming sick. Practices such as this have reduced various risks to tourist health like serious illness in a foreign country. It has additionally helped in a reduction in the consumption of unsafe foods and drinks which could be detrimental to their health (Ritchie, 2008). CADD Emirates has ditched the electronic key access and adopted biometric registration allowing guests to use their fingerprints to enter rooms by placing their fingers on a device. The theory is that their biometric data will be easily recognizable across other locations simplifying check in. (Trader, 2012). This system has eased the work of hotels personnel when identifying visitors, and this has been effective in
The definition of Hazard means something that could cause harm, and Risk means the likelihood of a hazard causing harm.
Hazards are activities or events that cause loss of life, injury, property damage, social and economic disruption, or environmental degradation. These hazards can be natural or manmade, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, and terrorist attacks. Vulnerabilities can be described as the potential for hazards. Vulnerabilities can be such things as geographical locations, a community up north has a lower vulnerability for hurricanes, as compared to Florida communities. Risk is described as the level of protection a community or area will have if they are involved in a hazard, and the certain groups
Every year, there are approximately 150,000 deaths and 200 million people affected by natural disasters and humanitarian crises (Thomas, 2003). Natural disasters alone, which include various occurrences, cause substantial disruptions such as the temporary displacement of more than five million people. According to the Fritz institute, statistics show that uprooted people from humanitarian crises such as civil conflict and war is greater, with an average of 13 million refugees and 20 million internally displaced people each year. As the biggest worldwide participants in the relief effort in the global community, disaster relief organizations are the forerunners of the help supplied to people affected by catastrophic events.
Risk: A risk is the chance, high or low, that any hazard will actually cause somebody harm. (the likelihood of it happening).
When disasters occur suddenly, the following days makes it difficult for people to get to work due to fallen trees or destroyed cars and home or roads flooded. By evaluating a given area or even country, can reduce these negative impacts by using risk identification, risk reduction and risk transfer. This is the important job of risk manager to do these risk assessments in order to better prepare for unfortunate events that will occur sometime in the future. There are public assistance programs set in place in the event of a disaster destroying a town or city for example.
Medically speaking, crisis refers not to a situation but the reaction a person has toward a traumatic event. In a certain situation, one might have an intense reaction while another may
A crisis is a situation that seriously and immediately threatens one or more of an organization's four vital assets: life, property, operations/income, and reputation. Crises are characteristically uncommon, unpredictable, and sudden, demanding immediate responses in order to save lives, avert secondary damage, and restore normal operations.
Defined by Coopers textbook, risk is the exposure to the consequences of uncertainty and has two elements: the likelihood of something happening that has an impact on the project objectives, and the positive or negative consequences of something impacting the project objectives (Cooper, Grey, Raymond, & Walker, 2005)
In a new form of protection and communication, social media is the main thing that everything is using in today’s times. Marketing employees have positions as titled as social media directors. Companies have people watching and monitoring everything that happens with their social media reputation all hours of the day everyday. Young people are seeing the power of social media everyday with teachers demonstrating how fast a picture can be shared across the world. Social media is relatively new and could possibly open many gates for communication. This depends heavily on who is publishing information and news on social media. If news spreads fast on social media, then the use of it can be used for emergencies. If many people are
From an environmental perspective, it is apparent that the world is starting to realise that increases in tourism are having a negative impact on the environment. This is due to increases in energy consumption, which in turn heightens the effects of global warming (Neto, 2002). There are many controls that governments are trying to put into place, such as flight rationing (Liverpool Business School, 2009). However, it can be argued that these have not really begun to have a significant effect on tourism, as they are still insufficient to dampen demand. It may become a problem in future years, as the number of controls is likely to increase. Perhaps the largest environmental factor would be natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina (Cashell, 2005) and the tsunami that hit Asia in December 2004 (Birkland, 2006). These will impact negatively on people’s confidence in visiting places that have been hit severely by such disasters.
What is a crisis management? It is an unexpected crisis that happens on the company that will affect the trust and loyalty of the stakeholder. It can be extremely costly because it will affect the company reputation and brand. For example like financial failure from poor business management, workplace violence, fires, cybercrime, computer viruses, product tampering or union strikes and other external issue like damaged economy that causes from London bombings, terrorists attacks on 11 September and others. The SHRM 2005 report indicates that only 56% organizations created or revised their disaster preparedness plans but 45% did not after the terrorist attacked on
Natural disaster management has become a worldwide challenge that has made organizations and institutions shift from the attitude of it being a one person issue into being a national and international issue that can only be handled in collaboration with other organizations globally (Sandwell). He also posits that these challenges are caused by natural factors example not being able to predict an earthquake or a flood and the intensity of the forthcoming destruction. However, the environment in which libraries operate makes it prone to the elements of natural disaster (Latonero, Shklovski). As Parsons has states in his account of the destruction of the library at Alexandria some 2000 years ago; “The brittle and frail paper of Egypt and even tougher skins of Pergamon seem fragile media indeed on which to confide the precious knowledge and wisdom of the ages. Ready victim of the accidents of nature, fire, water and the other elemental forces…the book would appear to have small chance of survival”. It should be clearly noted that, libraries are particularly susceptible to disasters because of their nature and resources they acquire. For example, a national library one of the most important cultural institution that protects the nation’s heritage has been destroyed because of natural disasters, that country would eventually lose their rich and treasured collection. The value of their resources must be protected; therefore, it is imperative for natural disaster management
According to Lillibridge and Klukken (1978), crisis is an event or situation that cause " 地n upset in equilibrium at the failure of one's traditional problem-solving approach which results in disorganization, hopelessness, sadness, confusion, and panic" (62). In the face of crisis, there is an urgent need to swing to action and communication is the only vehicle that can convey this message to everyone concerned. When crisis occur, communication challenges becomes worsened because the
On August 29, 2009, Hurricane Katrina struck the United States Gulf Coast. It was a Category 3 Hurricane, according to the Saffir Simpson Scale. Winds gusted to up to 140 miles per hour, and the hurricane was almost 400 miles wide . The storm itself did a tremendous amount of damage, but the storm’s aftermath was cataclysmic. Many claimed that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the storm. This paper will examine the four elements of disaster management – preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation – as well as an analysis on the data presented.
Here is the final version of the crisis management strategy report which was commissioned by yourself on Monday 5 May 2014.