...Emergency Management Office Disaster One Holly Cains HCS/320 27 April 2015 Ann Maleta Emergency Management Office Disaster One With the recent news of the water supply being contaminated, our Emergency Management Office will take immediate action in solving this problem and making sure the community stays safe. First, there are several individuals and groups that will be communicating inside and outside the organization during this crisis situation that are authorized to give official information. Secondly, there are media opportunities during this management crisis that are not limiting us to using current and high class technology. Third, I know there is a time and place for social media, but it seems as if most people turn there for answers, and we need to control the rumors that will follow. Fourth, there are potential advantages and challenges associated with communicating within the organization alongside the public and private sectors during this crisis situation. Finally, strategies will change with every situation as factors in each situation are different. This is a very dangerous situation that our community has been put in and we will do our best to keep everyone informed, safe, and do our best to get this situation under control quickly. Rumor Mill to a Minimum There are several individuals and groups that will be communicating inside and outside the organization during this crisis situation that are authorized to give official information. Their...
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...regional Emergency Management office if I were 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 email to all staff to attend an emergency, mandatory meeting. Employees who are unable to attend because of emergency situations will have access to videoconference. I would get one our communication specialist in the company to give a presentation reminding our organization’s staff of our organization’s emergency policies and procedures in the event of conflicts that pertain to disasters. Included in the discussion the communication specialist would relay our game plan centered on how we are going to try to diffuse as much as we can the traumatic stress the media might have caused. One strategy used to try to diffuse as much as traumatic stress the media might cause is to contact a few support groups that are in each community. The...
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...information out for this crisis, unlike in 2005 Hurricane Katrina where, it reached for beyond Louisiana and even America because more advanced technology was used for notifying the public, which was the Internet. In this paper, the reader will learn how to communicate as a group during a major crisis, the ways to communicate, and who to contact during the disaster. As the director of a regional Emergency Management, I begin to receive authorized reports that there was a contamination of a fatal-if-consumed chemical in the public’s water supply in several cities in an area under my jurisdiction. The strategy I used to start a contingency plan that would address the situation at hand as well as my organization and the public without causing media frenzy and a state of hysteria, and e-mails for staff immediately to attend an emergency meeting. Those employees who cannot make the mandatory meeting will be given access to the meeting via video conference or webcast. I would contact one of our company’s communication specialists to give a presentation reiterating the organization’s emergency protocol in the case of disasters. This discussion will include the communication specialist relaying our agenda focused solely on how we are trying to diffuse the stress, caused by the media, as much as possible. To diffuse the hysteria and panic caused by the media covering the...
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...Week 3 Application: Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response Abigail C. Diggs Walden Education NURS 4010-04: Family, Community and Population-Based Care November 3, 2013 Week 3: Application INTRODUCTION Natural disaster can be scary, chaotic and an tragic events for the entire community, city, state and even at the national level. In the events of an natural disaster, nurses played key role in planning before it can happen, and assessment when the disaster actually happens (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate or highlights some key role the nurse may played in the emergency preparedness and response to hurricane disaster in within a community during or the before the actual disaster. THE ROLE OF THE NURSE' DURING HURRICANE DISASTER Hurricanes are a large tropical storms that comes with heavy rains. Hurricanes contains winds that may be in excess of 74 miles per hour and large areas of rainfall, creating flooding. In addition, hurricanes have the potential to create large and dangerous tornadoes (http://www.severeweather.com/hurricanes). The ocean-water temperature has to be above 79-degree for hurricane to developed. Therefore, hurricanes happened in late summer and early fall. Meteorologist used the term tropical storms when the winds are under 74 miles per hour and hurricanes when it rises above 74 miles hour. A hurricanes can last up to 2-weeks causes damages and in most causes it may be deadly...
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...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 have access to a video conference. I would get one of our communication specialists in the company to give a presentation reminding our organization’s staff of our organization’s emergency policies and procedures in the event of conflicts that pertain to disasters. Included in the discussion the communication specialist would relay our plan centered on how we are going to try to diffuse the traumatic stress the media might have caused. Making sure if that we have a pre crisis plan in case there is another crisis ever happens agene. We will have individuals and groups that will be...
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...Before or during a disaster, it is a challenge and important to communicate correct information clearly to the target audience. Such efforts are taken for granted because we communicate every day. Communicating is very important in the prevention of disasters and reaction to an emergency. Often time’s communication plays a big part, but is placed in a small window of opportunity to gain a response from a small or large group. When lives are at stake, communication should take lead focus in the efforts to prevent disaster. Communication is a two way street. A speaker usually focuses on the information they want to get across. A listener may understand the message, understand a portion, or miss the message all together. This occurrence played out in the disaster of spaceship Challenger and Columbia. In comparison, the communication issues that happened in both Challenger and Columbia are very similar. Even with NASA’s advanced technology, engineers and political backing failed in communicating flaws of productions elements. A contractor in the Challenger camp, Thiokol failed to address flaws in the O –rings in 1977 and engineers disregarded potential launching in colder temperatures. Many years later NASA disaster struck the space program again. Space shuttle Columbia went down in flames over Texas. The disaster was debated because in multiple meetings before launch, potential problems were not communicated or the frequency in which the problem were occurring...
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...public. Emails and blogs were set up for those individuals that had access to the internet, and there were updates being handled on the company’s website. As the director of regional Emergency Management Office, there will need to be a plan on how this situation will be addressed and taken care of. There needs to be constant communication to the general public to let them know that the situation is being taken care of. When a Crisis hits the first thing you do is figure out what the facts are and how to communicate those facts. (Pisciotta, 2010). Honesty is always the best policy. Therefore, the public should not be stonewalled or refused any information. There should be no added pressure than there already is on the company. When communicating with the public there are key things that should always be recognized: An explanation of what went wrong, an expression of concern, and a sincere apology. The response form a crisis is based on the foundation of the message. The Emergency Management Office has received official reports that the water supplies are contaminated with agents that are life-threatening. The first step would be to communicate with...
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...THE FINAL 1. Regardless of conditions during a crisis, what are the strategic choices that a government must be able to make in order to guide local recovery? Throughout history, we can now with certainty state that disaster happens, especially in my home of State of Florida. In Florida, we are of course known for hurricanes and everything else that comes with it. But we must also keep in mind that disasters are local and occurs in cities and counties of all sizes. The question that we can ask is what happens following a disaster? Well, the answer is that the people of that particular city or county is looking for the leadership of their elected officials in order to lead them through the devastating time; to act swiftly and quickly with an immediate response and reassuring the community that their lives will promptly return to normalcy. Nonetheless, no matter the size of the city, the local government leaders are responsible to oversee all four phases of the Emergency Management process, which are Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Mitigation. Furthermore, whenever we discuss disaster, the first thought that comes to mind is “Hurricane Katrina” because of the blatant misguided approach and lack of timely and effective response during this disaster recovery. But if I were to guess the major reason for such disastrous approach is because the government was focusing on a short-term relief while disregarding the long-term recovery process. Based on the readings and research...
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...emergency management office. I am coming to you because I have been receiving official reports that our public water supplies of several towns in the area have become contaminated with a life threatening biological agent. Having a contaminated water supply is a very serious situation. There is no solid evidence to show how the water became contaminated, and people need to know what symptoms to look for. Symptoms to look for are nose bleeds, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, blurred vision, and abdominal pain. Contingency plans will be addressed within this organization, as well as with the public, without causing or creating a panic. As the director, it is my job to put together a strong, reliable group that will be communicating inside and outside of the organization during this crisis of contaminated water supplies. The first thing that needs to be done is to contact different agencies to see if we can find out how serious the contamination really is, and how widespread. Agencies that I would contact would be local agencies like the public works, and local law enforcement agencies. I would also want to know what the water has been contaminated with. The best agency to ask this question would be poison control. The second thing that needs to be done is to let the public know about this crisis. I think the best way to do this without inducing panic would be to hold a press conference with the Governor, the Mayor, and the director of water and waste management. This press conference...
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...Strategies MU13BHA08 Communication During a Crisis Situation Given the scenario, today as the director of a regional Emergency Management Office, the phone begun to ring more than usual. I had started receiving official reports that the public water supplies of several towns in the area have become contaminated with a life-threatening biological agent. Contingency plans must be addressed within the organization, and with the public without creating a panic. This paper will cover development of a communication plan, and what the communication plan should include. This paper will also cover topics regarding potential advantages, and challenges with communication, communication with the public, and private sector, message mapping, the use of social media, and how media might be used with today’s modern technology. If carefully designed, communication plan can save precious time when an emergency occurs and enable leaders and spokespersons to focus on particulars of the emergency at hand, and the quality, accuracy, and speed of their responses. To show the context of messaging as part of the overall plan, the following describes what a comprehensive communication plan should include. • Describe and designate staff roles and responsibilities for different emergency scenarios • Designate who is accountable for leading the response • Designate who is responsible for implementing various actions • Designate who needs to be consulted during the process • Designate who needs...
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...Group B: Social Media’s Role in Disaster Preparedness Social Media presence in this day and age is viral. The media not only covers so called everyday matters but also focuses on world events. Some of the most horrific and widely covered events are disasters. During times of disaster, our populations turn to some form of mass media for information. Few have not used the Internet during severe weather to check for warnings? Few have not turned on the television to check for the last developments or for directions on how to respond appropriately to a disaster? According to Veenema (2013) when asked where people usually turn to for information in the case of a local emergency, in 2007, 61% of respondents named TV; 29%, radio; 6%, the Internet; 2%, newspapers; 1% did not know. This presents the question, what is the role of mass media in the time of natural disasters? Mass media’s presence during disaster can expose a community’s strengths or weaknesses related to disaster preparedness. Media agenda is referred to as the deliberate coverage of topics or events with the goal of influencing public opinion and public policy (Barnes, et al., 2008). In the case of Hurricane Katrina, the gulf coast appeared to be in a panic. The media repeatedly highlighted the flaws in local, state, and federal emergency preparedness procedures. One should note that during this same time, there were many courageous and dangerous rescues made, all of which seemed to be over looked or over...
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...open to them and were left to the perils of the unforgivable crawl space that they would now call home. "The buried men, who became known as "Los 33" ("The 33"), were trapped 700 meters (2,300 ft) underground and about 5 kilometers (3 mi) from the mine's entrance via spiraling underground service ramps"(“2010 Copiapo mining accident,” 2010). The mining company would now be faced with communicating the tragedy within not only the company, but with the trapped miner's families and loved ones. With such an audience at hand, careful consideration on delivery methods is of great importance. When a tragedy occurs, loved ones will often lose their cognitive and logical thinking abilities and essentially go into panic mode. One must collect data that will help to deliver the material at each level of understanding in an audience with such diverse roles. We are dealing with a different culture and background from our own with many different beliefs as well. The needs of the affected families involved with the "Chilean Mine Collapse" were assuredly sensitive and great caution was needed in communicating with them. Imagine a young mother and wife of one worker just sitting at home and sees the news of her husband's mine collapsing and not knowing any more details. All sorts of thoughts start to race through her head, is he dead, is he alive, why did this happen? The company now has the responsibility to inform such family members of the affected miner's situation and provide necessary...
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...Community Health Nursing Emergency Response 725.8.8 Stefanie Pipia Western Governors University April 18, 2014 Disaster in Franklin County In the event of a disaster there are many people with various roles needed to respond and meet the needs of the community affected. The role of major public health personnel is to assess the incident for immediate health needs, severity of health needs and the potential health risks of the community. The public health personnel have specific roles, responsibilities and functions to carry out during the disaster to identify, manage and minimize aftermath. The public health nurse can assess for immediate health needs related to injury and disability. They can identify and provide health related education to reduce the health risks related to the disaster as well as prevention of secondary conditions. Secondary conditions can be caused by food and water contamination and injury from chemical spills or exposure. The public health nurse can provide first aid treatment within their scope of practice, assess vital signs and communicate the need for other health related resources. They can manage of pre-existing conditions by assisting with transportation to shelters for those in need of electricity for nebulizers, oxygen or other necessary medical equipment. Coordinating with others to meet the needs for those on life sustaining medications, such as blood pressure or chemotherapy medications or people receiving dialysis...
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...Best Buy disaster plan Christian Jones Qazi Ali CIS 359 May 25, 2012 Abstract Through this paper I and my partner will be discussing number of things about one of the biggest computer retail company in the United States of America. First is that we will provide some background information on the Best Buy company such as how it came about and how it has evolved from the past and to the present date. Basically we will give up a little bit of information on the owner as well as the company itself. In addition, we will also cover some of the problem that we face will developing this reasech paper. We will also cover some key points that we reasech or were told there disaster recovery plan. Also we provide solutions to their disaster recovery by point out some problems that they might face in the near future. We will also discussion how the plan will work in some cases and how it will not be as successful in other cases. Disaster Recovery for Best Buy A disaster is defined as an unexpected, unplanned catastrophic event that renders the Organizations ability to perform mission-critical and critical processes, including the ability to do normal production processing of systems that support critical business processes. A disaster could be the result of significant damage to a portion of the operations, a total loss of a facility, or the inability of the employees to access that facility. There were a lot of challenges that occurred during the development of this...
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... It is just as important to gain rapport. Showing that you care with your verbal/non verbal skills is always a way to get the attention of a group, especially in the case of the trapped Chilean copper miners. On August 5, 2010 in San Jose, Chile over 30 copper mine workers were trapped underground after two disastrous collapses in the Atacama desert. Families were extremely worried about their loved ones, not knowing if they had survived the disaster, especially with limited food, water, and oxygen for days. It is in question if the Minera San Esteban Primera Copper mine was up to safety codes by the FMC and CTC. Principally because of the large amounts of copper produced and the previous closing of the mine after a fatal accident in March 2007. Families need to know the extremities of the situation and not be lied to as they are already in enough agony. It is important that both families and employees know the action plan being taken. In this case, I am sure that they need to know in the most expedited fashion possible. During this catastrophic event,employees needed the situation to be communicated to them in order to take control and do what they could to help ease the situation. Whether that meant informing families, or...
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