Disaster Management In The Philippines

Cumberland County wishes to develop a strong county government emergency response capability to preserve, maintain, and reconstitute the county government 's ability to carry out the executive, legislative and judicial processes under the threat or occurrence of any emergency condition that could disrupt such process and services. Mitigation activities conducted at the county and local level include, but are not limited to the following: Prepare disaster response plans and procedures to cover natural or man-made disasters. Prepare annexes in support of county plans as required and support to local government and/or other county/state organizations. Conduct training, education and exercise programs to assure a continuing capability to accomplish disaster response measures for response staff and auxiliary staff. Prepare and conduct public information programs on natural and man-made disasters to educate the public on protective measures to be taken in the event of a disaster.

It is a continual form of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluation, and improvement that will ensure effective coordination and enhancement of capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from and, mitigate the effects of natural disasters, man-made disasters and, acts of terrorism (The four phases of emergency management, n.d.). Emergency managers develop plans to manage and counter the risks and act to build the needed capabilities to implement the plans (The four phases of emergency management, n.d.) The public sector can enhance preparedness by making sure proper maintenance and training is given to all emergency services, by developing emergency population warning methods, by preparing shelters and evacuation plans for communities and, by stockpiling, inventory, and maintain disaster supplies and equipment (The four phases of emergency management, n.d.) Some of the benefits of preparedness would be having better trained emergency personnel, allow the public to be educated in emergencies, having better vehicles and equipment and, by developing and maintain better communication systems (Four phases of emergency management,

The Homeland Security Act assigned responsibility to DHS for managing crucial parts of first responders. The two organizations in DHS that is the lead are The Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate and the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness. The key task for these organizations in DHS is to build a comprehensive national incident management system that defines the roles and responsibilities of federal, state, and local governments and how they handle numerous first responder disciplines during an actual emergency occurrence [1]. DHS has the lead and will continue to grow how they develop all-hazard first responder training. Creating additional funding in DHS for first responders to respond to terrorist attacks will be something that should

In order to understand the challenges that global governance in health faces, it is essential to define global health itself first. Kickbusch (2006) defines global health as those health issues which exceed national borders and governments and request actions on the global forces and global flows that determine the health. In order to achieve global health new forms of governances at the national and international level are needed. These governances need to include a variety of different actors (Kickbusch, 2006). Global health asks for an acknowledgement of the need to act globally on emerging problems in health, of the importance of cross-border determinants of health and the need for global governance.

Communications in this Emergency Operations Plan, means using equipment and people to co-ordinate and issue essential information before, during and after an impending or real disaster. This paper explains the role of this support function in using 24-hour Radio, Telephone, or the Internet to give instructions and guidance on disaster relief to local law enforcement, firefighters, search and rescue crews and the public in the recovery phases of a disaster. Harris County, Emergency Operations Plan Annex C Communications I. PURPOSE This annex describes the Harris County communications systems and the available communications sources, rules and policies that the Harris County government agencies use during emergencies or disasters.

The Military and the National Response Framework Whenever disaster occurs, the federal government is tasked to response to such a disaster. In order to make the response more efficient, all levels of government and other bodies are guided by the National Response Framework (NRF). As a

Chapter 2 2. Literature Review Root causes analysis is simply a tool designed to help incident investigators describe what happened during a particular incident, to determine how it happened and to understand why it happened. The definition of a root cause varies between authors and root causes methodologies, with different ‘levels’ of causation being adopted by different systems. Figure 1 illustrates the different levels of cause that can be ascribed to an incident. The root causes lie at level 1 which inevitably influence the effectiveness of all the risk control systems and workplace precautions that exist at levels 2 and 3.

Environmental impact assessment "Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the term applied to the systematic examination of the likely impacts of development proposals on the environment prior to the beginning of any activity". (http://www.ncte.ie/environ/eia.htm) Screeningis the process of ascertaining whether a development requires an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is determined by reference to mandatory and discretionary provisions as set out in the Planning and Development Acts (2000-2010) and the Planning and Development Regulations (2001-2011). The likelihood of significant environmental effects is the principal issue around which consideration of the requirement for an EIA is focused. These significant effects have the potential to occur due to nature of the proposed development, the scale, massing or magnitude of the proposed development and the intended location of the development in relation to particular environments sensitive to

1. Identify the four negative and positive risk response plans, and give an example of each. You must indicate in your answer what makes the risk positive or negative. Negative risk refers to those activities that lead to undesirable consequences in a given project. Some of the strategies to deal with such risk include; avoid, mitigate, accept, and transfer the risk (Usmani, & Liang, 2017).

6. Evaluation According to the United State Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, program evaluation is defined as the “the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and outcomes of programs to make judgments about the program, improve program effectiveness, and/or inform decisions about future program development”10. This is a critical concept in public health as it improves program implementation and aid program accountability and effectiveness. Evaluation also aid problem solving, provides critical information for knowledge understanding and inform decision making. The procedure and processes for evaluation should not only involve evaluation expert but also all relevant stakeholders.