Essay on Emergency Preparedness and Response

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a body under the United States Department of Homeland Security that was created in 1978 to improve the safety of the American residents, especially during disasters. FEMA has a primary mandate of coordinating the response to any disaster that may occur in the U.S. and that overwhelms both local and state authorities’ resources. FEMA comes in to aid only after the governor of the involved state has declared a state of emergency and has made a formal request. However, there is an exception to the gubernatorial declaration requirement, when an emergency occurs on a federal property such as the Space Shuttle Columbia experienced in the 2003 return-flight disaster ("About the FEMA Agency", 2016).

a. Attempt to incorporate modern technologies such as satellite radio and television stations, social media and wireless communications into the current EAS spectrum of emergency alert broadcasting.

In “Wither the Emergency Manager,” Niel R. Britton comments on Drabek's “Human Responses to disaster: An Inventory of Sociological Findings.” Britton describes six positive and negative issues in emergency management as it is today. In this paper, we will discuss the implications on emergency management as a field and on the individual manager.

Though the terrorist attacks of 9/11 shook the United States from some of its complacency, 11 years later, our public health system and the public/private health departments of the United States are still incapable of coping with a major bioterrorist attack. Our health care system was not designed to deal with bioterrorism, our medical personnel are not trained or experienced enough to deal with bioterrorism and we have not devoted enough political muscle and money to redesigning, re-educating and restructuring so the health departments can effectively deal with this very real menace. The solution is the devotion of all those assets to a new, empowered, well-funded, coordinated health departments comprising a highly effective public health system.

The purpose of the Emergency Preparedness Plan is to save lives and prevent injuries in case of emergencies such as nuclear attack, fire, natural disaster, civil disorder or other, and provide the necessary best practices to ensure all possible and relevant forms of communicating with our faculty, staff, students, and parents. Mrs. Patricia Harris of the International Studies Elementary Charter School was interviewed about the International Studies Elementary Charter School’s Emergency Management Plan and the role of the school counselor during emergencies. Surprisingly, the school counselor does not play as important of a role than one would have thought. Although, the counselor does serve as one of the Designated School Emergency Team Members, some the tasks that would seem likely the counselor would perform, are performed by other administrators. Tasks such as talking to parents or being there for the students are performed by the principal while the school counselor is delegated to direct traffic. Based on the Emergency Management Plan, it would seem that the school counselor’s role is still not clearly understood. With all the expertise that counselors can bring to a crisis situation, it’s disappointing that counselors are assigned such a miniscule task as delegating traffic. Counselor Harris did discuss the Dougherty County School System’s Crisis Team. That team is

The anthrax attacks of 2001 exposed serious inadequacies in the response of the U.S. public health system to meet such grave threats. The federal government passed the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 and appropriated funds to develop the public health infrastructure. Since 2002, Dr.

As a health care professional, It is my responsibility to keep a very clean and safe facility at all times. The first step to making sure we are never in violation is making sure everyone is following the OSHA guidelines. Making sure to handle hazardous medical waste properly. I would also make sure my employees know what to do at all times in case of an emergency situation. During down time, I would have a requirement for every employee to just take a moment. To look around and see how they can improve the work environment.I would also make sure my patients are happy at all times.

Occurrences Natural epidemics and calamities date back to the very beginning of life we know today. Emergency incidences occur unpredictably in our daily life basis. It is hence essential to ensure that we are whole equipped with relevant basic knowledge of handling any unforeseen calamity that can happen here UFV school community. This report present the findings and analysis of an investigation conducted in the library section of the UFV campus

In this module, I have learned thus far that it takes multiple units from Emergency Management divisions and also public service divisions to fully handle a disaster. In this writing assignment, I will be discussing about Journalism and how it is can effect the outcome of a major event, such as a disaster. Journalism in today's society is crucial for the public and also for the teams that are activated to handle such terrible events or disasters. It has come a long way today with the invention of I-phone's, internet, social media and also news media. Without media coverage and new advanced technology about hurricanes, disasters, or event events that may harm our nation would be indescribable to innocent people in our nation. Take September 11th 2001 for an example. The media coverage

The next role, related to disease outbreak, public health plays in emergency preparedness and response is laboratory investigation and analysis. Laboratories are able to identify agents, biological and chemical, through different activities and then they are able to link it to other cases that had similar sources (Turnock, 2011 p. 426). Intervention is the next role, related to disease outbreak, that public health plays in emergency preparedness and response. One of the main reasons why collecting, investigating, and distributing the information about a disease is important is because it is a part of the process of controlling the disease from spreading (Turnock, 2011 p. 426). Interventions that are created to protect people in the community from the risk that are associated with a disease include: “setting standards for health and safety, inspecting food production and importation facilities, monitoring environmental conditions that foster infectious disease and enforcing private-sector compliance with established standards” (Turnock, 2011 p. 426).

The important concept in the constitutional basis for public health action is protect the community and rebalance that against the need of individual rights. States take responsibility and authority to provide public health and public safety: inspection and regulation of commercial and residential facilities; restaurant, hotel, motel, or swimming pool inspection; regulating drinking water. They do so through the Tenth

Federal and States public health involvement has evolved over the years, because the relationship between the different levels of government are changing and due to the fact that we are now aware of the of threats to local communities well- being health, safety and our local communities expectations for governmental response to situations and as well

When registering for this course, I had no idea what I was signing myself up for, nor did I know what the broad field of emergency management encompassed. Like several of my classmates, I was required to take another UNIV course for the spring semester. To be quite honest, I chose to enroll in this particular UNIV course simply because it was the only one that fit well with my schedule. I never imagined that I would get so much out of it and that I would be able to apply the material learned to my everyday life and future.

on the need to protect public health (p. 1, para. 7)”. In the January 26, 1998 issue of Newsweek,

It is generally understood that each type of disaster requires a specific type of response. In the last twenty years floods and storms caused approximately fifty five percent of all worldwide natural disasters (Leeuw, Vis & Jonkman, 2012). Due to the fact, that floods are typically preceded by conditions such as heavy rains or high waters, generally it is easier to predict the possibility of flooding when compared to other natural disasters. Thus, due to the nature of floods preventive activities may be implemented that may prevent the flood form occurring. Some common practices such as filling sandbags or the use of dams are prime examples of preparatory activities. Unfortunately as demonstrated with hurricane Katrina, disaster preparedness is quite challenging.