Preparedness [Name of the Institute]

Preparedness

Introduction

The aim of the essay is to extricate the concept of preparedness, discussed in the 4th edition of “Introduction to Emergency Management”, written by George Haddow, Jane Bullock and Cupola. The book embraces the concept of emergency management. It discusses the causes and risks of natural and technological hazards as well as it elucidates the mitigation tools to avoid disasters as much as possible. The main objective of this essay is to highlight the concept of preparedness in depth by elaborating the preparedness cycle and the emergency operation plans. Moreover, it discusses the training and education programs provided for the awareness of requirement of contingency plans. Further, it enlightens the concept of preparedness as a national effort.

Discussion

The objective of the essay is to extricate the 4th chapter “preparedness” of haddow's Introduction to Emergency Management. An emergency is an unplanned event that may arise any time, therefore, the term emergency management is very crucial to understand as it tells how to cope up with any kind of expected or unexpected emergency. Emergency management embraces four phases it includes mitigation, preparedness, response then recovery. These events will occur simultaneously. Mitigation is the process to prevent disasters as well as it attempts to reduce the intensity of an emergency. The aim of mitigation efforts is to reduce losses in terms of lives, property and other belongings. While, preparedness is the psychological attempt to alter the individual's behaviour to limit the impact of any uncertainty. In this phase, necessary emergency services are to be provided to the affected people. It is then followed by the recovery phase to make things back to normality

Preparedness cycle

Preparedness cycle is the process of planning (brainstorming pertaining to the emergency), managing (thinking about potential solution regarding the emergency to reduce the ...