Activity 1.1
Reviewing emergency management
Take a moment to consider the terms emergency and disaster. Can you recall a working definition for these terms?
A disaster/emergency (from and emergency services perspective)
A serious disruption to community life which threatens or causes death or injury in that community and/or damage to property which is beyond the day-today capacity of the prescribed statutory authorities and which requires special mobilisation and organisation of resources other than those normally available to those authorities. 

 Emergency Management Australia (1998) The Australian Emergency Management Glossary, Canberra

We talked about the nature of emergencies in terms of their effects on the community, property and the environment in EMG100

Take a moment to consider the Framework for Emergency Management. What are the four major functions/skills of a manager.
Planning, Organising, Leading and Controlling

An emergency manager uses the four management functions above to effectively undertake a variety of emergency management related tasks relevant to four specific areas of emergency management. What are these four areas?

Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery

Take a few minutes to review these four areas of emergency management from your EMG100 study materials.