Hazard-specific plans
Many hazards do not require specific plans, and are amenable to a generic, all-hazards management approach. This approach assumes that many of the tasks required in emergency management will be similar irrespective of the hazard.
Those hazards that may need to be specifically planned for either:
- are unusually complex or specific in organisational requirements; or
- involve a large number of organisations that are not normally involved in emergency management; or
- are unusually detailed in the degree to which the hazard is understood, and therefore can be planned for in detail.
The specificity of some plans may make them impossible to distinguish from actual emergency procedures, due to the degree of detail that they can contain. They are additional to the all-hazards planning, but must be specifically connected to it.
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Stop to think for a moment. Can you think of some examples of hazards which may require specific planning? Why do they require specific planning? |
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