About this subject

Welcome

This subject is the first of two subjects within the Emergency Operations Management component of your studies. This subject examines some of the emergency management aspects of emergency operations management focussing in the pre-impact and impact phases of an emergency event. Time constraints prevent us from analysing all aspects of emergency operations management as they may pertain to emergency management. Therefore we have provided you with a series of study topics within the subject that will provide you with a better understanding of the range and depth of issues facing emergency managers before, during and after an emergency/disaster event impacts.

In this subject we will be asking you to select a major emergency/disaster event to study. This subject will focus on the event’s pre-impact and impact phases. These are the time periods prior to the event occurring and immediately after the event occurred. The aim being to better understand what happened within your selected event, analyse the strengths and weaknesses associated with it’s management and from that analysis, identify means of enhancing the management of future similar events.

This subject leads you in to the following subject in this emergency operations management component – EMG208, which examines the post-impact phase of your selected event and the hypothetical re-occurrence of your event today.

Your subject coordinator

 

 

 
 

Welcome to EMG 206. I hope that you will find this subject interesting and challenging and I look forward to your participation on the subject forum.

I would like to warmly welcome you to the new teaching session. I hope you have a rewarding session of study with the School of Public Health.

 

Ian Manock
Subject/Course coordinator
Australian Graduate School of Policing

You can contact me:
E-mail: imanock@csu.edu.au

 

Introduction to this study guide

This subject is equivalent to two normal subjects. Therefore the work required within the subject will be greater than a standard 8 point subject that you might have previously undertaken.

This study guide consists of 13 topics, each of which will require you to invest approximately 10 -15 hours work to complete.

The study guide has been designed to help your understanding of current emergency operations management. Specifically, the study guide will do this by getting you to explore what actions could be taken during the pre-impact and impact phases of any emergency.

The study guide, in meeting this aim of the subject, will take you through the stages of writing the major assignment, Assignment 2. The assignment is a report on selected aspects of the pre-impact and impact phases of an emergency/disaster event, which is a rather wieldy task that you would be likely to put off. Because you are also distance education students with particularly busy jobs, we feel that it is important that you start the assignment in the first week. To that end the study guide has been designed to take you through the steps of analysing your selected emergency event and drafting your assignment/report as you proceed through each topic. This then gives the structure of the study guide: the pre-impact and impact phases of an emergency/disaster event to your analysis and eventual report (Assignment 2). Each phase is divided into subsections that align with the topics of the study guide. They are:

Topic 1 Introduction

Pre-impact phase

Topic 2 Legislation

Topic 3 Communications

Topic 4 Time and geographical implications

Topic 5 Preventative/mitigating actions

Topic 6 Implementation of plans

Impact phase

Topic 7 Roles and responsibilities of involved organisations

Topic 8 Command and control structures

Topic 9 Emergency operation centres

Topic 10 Media management

Topic 11 Evacuation

Topic 12 External operational aid

Topic 13 Conclusions and recommendations

Please check the Suggested Study Schedule in your Subject Outline for this subject before commencing. This indicates the dates by which you are expected to have completed the various topics to ensure that assignments are completed on time.

 Each topic of this subject will provide you with some guidelines for your research in a particular area of emergency management relevant to your selected event. You will no doubt locate some items of information which will have no relevance to the current topic being studied, but may be of relevance in a later topic or the following subject EMG208 which deals with the post-impact phase of the emergency event. You should endeavour to retain that information for future use.

 



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