Where does emergency planning fit in emergency prevention and preparedness?
You will recall from Emergency Management Planning I (EMG101) that we considered an emergency prevention and preparedness model. The first part of this model was risk assessment, which you have already studied. You also will have successfully completed a risk assessment assignment for EMG101, and this will form the basis of your emergency planning study and work in this subject.
Let us revisit the emergency prevention and preparedness model.
Figure 1.1: An emergency prevention and preparedness model
Activity 1.1
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And now some questions on this model. You may need to review Topic 1 of your EMG101 Study Guide. |
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What is the purpose of a risk analysis? |
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What is risk assessment? |
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What are the expected outputs of a risk assessment? |
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Does 'emergency planning' refer to just response planning? If not, to what other aspects of emergency management does it refer? |
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What elements would you expect to find in an emergency procedure? |
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Why is a training analysis required? |
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What are exercises designed to test? What would you do with the results of an exercise, or after an emergency operation? |
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So you see that emergency planning does not occur in a vacuum, but should be part of an integrated emergency prevention and preparedness strategy. We will further develop the idea of the context of emergency planning in Topic 3.