and values mirror my own professional and personal objectives. Having lost one parent to a disaster, the Joplin, Missouri tornado of May 22, 2011, and nearly losing the other when Hurricane Charley impacted central Florida in 2004, my life is dedicated to understanding the many components of community vulnerability to natural and technological hazards and working to mitigate these issues. For post-disaster communities, I focus on the recovery process; what factors expedite or hinder recovery, how
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of a regional Emergency Management office and was to start receiving official reports that the public water supplies of several towns in the area have become contaminated with a life-threatening biological agent, the strategy I would use to start a contingency plan that would address my organization and the public without creating panic would be to send an immediate e-mail to all staff to attend an emergency, mandatory meeting. Employee’s who are unable to attend because of emergency situations will
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Community Health Task 1 Alisha Diehl Western Governors University Community Health Community Description and Data Interpretation Located in South Central Pennsylvania, comprising a total of 910 square miles, York County was founded in 1749. It was formed out of Lancaster County, and became the fifth county established in Pennsylvania, as well as the first county established west of the Susquehanna River. A dispute grew between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as both states claimed a portion of
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Central Florida is a vulnerable geographic location and is susceptible to emergency events such as hurricanes, wildfires, and threats to homeland security. Since hurricane begins June 1st and goes through November 30th, I have updated my standard operating procedure for the safety of my family. The purpose is to provide guidance and procedures regarding Hurricane preparations activities. Preparation and communication is key for the safety of my family. Important documents such as birth certificates
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cause of much of the destruction. The levee system catastrophically filed resulting in major flooding and destroyed the patients files stored in the basement of the hospital. It is managements plans to keep patients records secure by implementing new policies and procedures for responding to an emergency that has the potential of damaging systems that contain electronic protected health information by scanning paper medical records into the computer, establishing procedures for creating and maintaining
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Japan. However, it was triggered by unexpected natural disaster, the accident can be avoided if there exist a sound risk management cycle to identify the risks within this project and put a risk management plan in place. What’s more, the influence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster would be reduced through proper crisis management procedures. There are three major key risk issues findings about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The first one is risk identification problems in risk management
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Emergency Preparedness and Response Esteban Guaderrama NUR Emergency Preparedness and Response Emergency preparedness is a key factor in helping with disasters and emergent issues that happen around the world. Emergency preparedness requires attention not just to specific types of hazards but also to steps that increase preparedness for any type of hazard (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). It is important that all the
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Management Plan A management plan is a blueprint for the way your organization is run, both day-to-day and over the long term. “It includes the standard methods for doing various things -- handling money, dealing with the actual work of the organization, addressing the way people in the organization do their jobs and the overall philosophical and intellectual framework in which these methods operate” (University of Kansas, 2015). It is important for organizations to have a management plan.
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DREAMZ TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC. Charleston, S.C. Operations Contingency Plan Torey A. Shannon Dreamz Security Plan I. Overview 2.1 Objectives The operative objectives of this security plan is to provide employees with a safe and secure work environment that implements efficient security controls that protect the confidentiality of employees’ and clients information while employing efficient protocol to thwart and/or counteract potential security threats. To protect employees
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Emergency Preparedness and Response Joy Carr NUR/408 January 10, 2012 Sandi Wheeler, R.N., MSN Emergency Preparedness and Response Public emergency preparedness and response is the ability of the public health and health care systems, communities, and individuals, to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from emergencies, particularly those whose scale, timing, or unpredictability threatens to overwhelm routine capabilities. Preparedness involves a continuous process
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