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What role does emergency management play in homeland security?
The mission of the Emergency Management and Homeland Security program is to prepare individuals to respond to, and be effective before, during, and after any local, statewide, or national emergency.
What are the responsibilities of the emergency manager during the recovery phase?
It includes actions such as providing essential public health and safety services, restoring interrupted utility and other essential services, reestablishing transportation routes, and providing food and shelter for those displaced by the incident.
What are community emergency response teams an example of?
Community Emergency Response Teams are an example of a state-level coordinating structure designed to augment local capabilities.
Why emergency managers is important?
Emergency Management protects communities by coordinating and integrating all activi- ties necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters.
What are the major roles in emergency management?
Prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery are the five steps of Emergency Management.
- Prevention. Actions taken to avoid an incident.
- Mitigation.
- Preparedness.
- Response.
- Recovery.
What is the role of a local emergency manager?
One view expressed is that the local emergency manager is the chief advisors to the jurisdiction’s chief executive with respect to organizing the jurisdiction’s resources and cooperators to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of major emergencies and disasters.
What should employees do in the event of an emergency?
The actions taken in the initial minutes of an emergency are critical. A prompt warning to employees to evacuate, shelter or lockdown can save lives. A call for help to public emergency services that provides full and accurate information will help the dispatcher send the right responders and equipment.
Why is it important to call for help during an emergency?
A prompt warning to employees to evacuate, shelter or lockdown can save lives. A call for help to public emergency services that provides full and accurate information will help the dispatcher send the right responders and equipment.
Who are the best experts in emergency management?
Phyllis Cauley is a subject matter expert in emergency management with CCP, following a long career in California Emergency Services. Nicole Ugarte is an assistant facilitator at CCP and has worked on numerous emergency management policy projects, as well as land use, water issues and organizational development.