Disaster Recovery Plan



Disaster Recovery Plan

Introduction

As the disaster coordinator, the priorities have to be set so that the nature and strength of the disaster could be taken care of before-hand. The preparedness for the critical disaster for the city or any site within it is upon the disaster planners who plan the disasters and causalities which would, if god forbids, will take place in the future. For this some priorities are needed to be set. The vulnerable areas, which are likely to get under-attack can be the populated areas, public gathering, major traffic areas like tunnels, bridges and areas where congestion usually takes place. The attacks could be for majority of reasons like, ransom collection, economic impact etc. And moreover, all the vulnerable areas should be given into and in the coordination of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The planners and coordinators have to see things as worst as they could because any mishap and disaster can take place any time and a dire action for the detrimental impacts on the health and safety hazards, critical facilities and infrastructure etc. the disaster scenarios on Community based provide preparedness efforts on solid basis.

It is noticeable and much a debatable topic that in America alone, about 62,000 people yearly on average are killed by the naturally occurring disasters (McEntire, 2007). And throughout the world, the numbers of affected people are increasing as the population densities rise and many live in disaster prone areas. The disaster prone areas and the recovery for those areas require a great deal of understanding and experience in this field. The disaster either naturally occurring or a terrorist attack both have a certain magnitude. The naturally occurring can cause much of the death toll and the terrorist attacks on a major public area can cause much destruction but of a certain magnitude and in a limited area. So what we have to focus the most are the naturally occurring disasters. The GIS, Geographic Information System is capable of telling and calculating the emergency response times in the natural disaster event. It helps the emergency planners and personnel to track, capture, display, and analyze according to location about the geographical referenced information. This can be used for tracking of where the disaster took place (Geographic information systems, 2012).

For the emergency management there can be four phases which are needed to be kept in mind, the mitigation phase, preparedness, response & the recovery phase.

Mitigation

The efforts for the mitigation are attempted to get rid of the hazards that could develop into the disasters and to reduce the after effects of the disasters. To reduce loss of property and life, and lessening the disaster, mitigation is taken in place.

Preparedness

What we have to take care of is to be prepare of any disaster, this is what the disaster coordinator has to look over for equipping, organizing, improving or monitoring the activities sot that to ensure the enhancement and coordination of capabilities of the disaster recovery and action taking organization to protect, prevent and ...