...My final project proposal will be on Communication Crisis plan of Hurricane Katrina. I will discuss how there was failure of communication and what went wrong during this crisis. The crisis communication and management was not planned out correctly. From the outcome of the disaster, you can tell it wasn’t rehearsed to perfection. There were evacuation plans, but it didn’t cover all the publics in the state. For example, there were ill people that wasn’t able to evacuate. There were people with no means of transportation or gas to evacuate the storm. There were 112,000 people with no cars. A great number of people doubted there storm. They felt it wasn’t necessary to evacuate due to previous times when it was suppose to be a hurricane and it never hit. The first stage of a crisis is called prodromes. Which are warning signs of a crisis before it actually happens. Those great number of people ignored the signs because they never been through it. It was always a false alarm. Joel K. Bourne Jr. predicted this crisis. National Geographic Magazine published his piece a year before this disaster happened. It has been predicted by geologists for some time now. The First step of the crisis plan was the levees and flood walls built to protect New Orleans from the flood waters from Mississippi. The levees that were built wasn’t strong enough for all the different categories of hurricanes. So again, there were prodromes. The engineers warned them that hurricanes would destroy those...
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...] Review key policies. | (Human Resources) | Anti-harassment Vacation and Sick Leave FMLA/Leaves of Absence Holidays Time and leave reporting Overtime Performance reviews Dress code | Personal conduct standards Progressive disciplinary actions Security Confidentiality Safety Emergency procedures Visitors E-mail and Internet usage | ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES | 4. [ ] Review general administrative procedures. | (Human Resources) | Office/desk/work station Keys Mail (Incoming and Outgoing) Shipping (FedEx, Airborne and UPS) Business cards Purchase requests | Telephones Building access cards Conference rooms Picture ID badges Expense reports Office supplies | INTRODUCTIONS AND TOURS (Facilities) | 5. [ ] Give introductions to department staff and key personnel during tour. 6. [ ] Tour of facility, including: | | Rest rooms Mail rooms Copy centers Fax machines Bulletin board Parking | Printers Office supplies Kitchen Coffee/vending machines Water coolers Emergency exits | POSITION INFORMATION (Manager) | 7. [ ] Introductions to team and department staff. 8. [ ] Review initial job assignments and training plans. 9. [ ] Review job description and performance expectations and standards. 10. [ ] Review job schedule and hours. 11. [ ] Review payroll timing, time cards (if applicable), policies and procedures. | | | | COMPUTERS (Information Services) | 12. [ ] Hardware and...
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...Natural Disasters Index Introduction Types of Disasters Effects of Disaster on Economy Effect of Disaster on Health Care Organization * Sudden Influx * Damage to Facilities * Inadequately Prepared * Specialty Treatment Availability Effects on the Population * Immediate Health Impact * Long-Term Impacts Steps in Disaster Management * Mitigation * Preparedness * Response * Recovery Real Incident Study * Background: * Immediate Response Considerations: * Evacuation: * Special Immediate Concerns: * Recovery Process: * Facility Considerations: * Lessons Learned at This Point in Response/Recovery: * Takeaways from this incident: Conclusion References Introduction According to dictionary.com Disasters means “a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood…” Disasters such as Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, tornados, epidemic disease outbreaks and more can damage any population and have a tremendous effect on the health care organizations that respond. Many health care organizations face major challenges during natural disasters. There are many different causes for those challenges.According to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in 2002, international disasters affected 608 million people and killed more than 24,000. The recent natural disaster in the...
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...Planning Before Teaching The community health nurse would first need to assess the area. Learn what areas are at the highest risk for hurricanes and what areas are closest to the many military bases. The nurse would need to become familiar with the area’s current evacuation plan and safe-zone areas. The nurse would need to learn about the warning alerts that may be used in the area and the emergency numbers or radio stations that provide updated information. The nurse would need to prepare information by using power points and pamphlets in different languages and, if applicable, age specific. Information regarding when to evacuate, where to go and what items to have ready in an emergency kit would be included in the power points and pamphlets ("Virginia Gov," 2013). The nurse would need to look into funding and possible donations that might help members of the community put together their emergency kit. Involving area businesses in the planning and possible donation of supplies could be beneficial. The nurse should involve local police, fire and hospitals in the planning. Assessing for a location for the teaching to be given would need to be done. The area for the teaching would need to be large and easily accessible to members of the community. The nurse would need to have language interpreters available during the teaching to ensure that the information is understood by all. The date and time for the teaching would need to be set as well. Setting the date and time for maximum...
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...harm way. This cause many people getting separated from one another, dying from the lack of supply and knowledge. You read stories or watch videos about the hard times that people had to do though. Til this day we are still solving and dealing with local problems. Three of the major problem that we need prepare better is evacuation plans, hospitals, and Red Cross/FEMA. The first major point is evacuation plans. This one of the most stressful and aggravating stages of hurricane season. When leaving you are most likely to get stuck in tremendous traffic for hours. So because of this need have to be wider roads with more entrance and exit points to prevent bottle-necking on the major highways. It looks like as soon you find an exit, everyone else is turning on it. Also want to touch base on the people who was unable to leave without assistance. Some of the help took days or even weeks. They when it was time to relocated, many families was separated from their love ones. That is a very tough situation knowing that you have no clue where you or family may be place in order to rekindle. If this happen it makes it easier for the health and the sick to evacuation. The second major point is hospitals. They should a have an idea of where they would relocate to as soon as they say they have disaster coming this way. These people should be the first people to me move somewhere do to their medical conditions. If they unable to get out the way, the hospitals should up to code construction...
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...After the recent disaster of Hurricane Katrina, there have been many opportunities to examine the multiple sides of the story. Many of these sides have been released to the public, but told with conflicting viewpoints. The most common conflict brought up again and again is between FEMA and the relief victims. Relief victims and FEMA argue over humanitarian aid issues such as evacuation, supplies, and housing. Evacuation was the most important humanitarian effort that FEMA could provide. Getting residents out of the disaster area was the primary goal of FEMA. Evacuation by bus was the initial form of evacuation. The bus evacuation plan that FEMA provided allowed the whole city to evacuate in a reasonable amount of time. Then evacuation by plane was added as another way for FEMA to get relief victims out of the city in large numbers. The plane evacuation was very efficient once it got under way. The conditions at the airport allowed only outbound aircraft. The last form of humanitarian aid shown through evacuation was the creation of emergency shelters. FEMA, in conjunction with surrounding states, had set up shelters where the evacuees could go. Then states further away volunteered to house evacuees. The shelters provided a place for evacuees to stay after the hurricane and provided time for them to look for more permanent housing. FEMA provided basic humanitarian aid by evacuating Katrina survivors. Supplies were a form of humanitarian aid that FEMA provided. The most basic...
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...of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf coast. Emergency management teams play a huge role in safeguarding the lives of people in endangered areas by evacuating them to safer locations as efficiently as possible. An evacuation plan is an essential component of an emergency plan. The evacuation plan for the state of Virginia has been developed after thorough analyses of the consequences of all the strategies but, as with most states, the operational characteristics of the plan at a microscopic level had never been evaluated in a comprehensive manner. The evacuation planning documents previously developed by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) adequately describe the numbers of evacuating vehicles, their origin and route taken at a macroscopic level. The current study was undertaken to evaluate the traffic control plan (TCP) and the performance of all the evacuation routes - interstate routes (I-64, I-264, and I-664) and arterial routes (Rt. 58, Rt. 460, Rt. 60, Rt. 17, and Rt. 10) using large-scale traffic simulation models. Road network is coded in a state-of-the-art microscopic simulation program, VISSIM. The study area comprised of the following nine evacuation areas – cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, and York. The following objectives were achieved in this research - 1) estimated the traffic performance of evacuation routes and other major arterial streets, 2) located...
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...select employees who are the face of the current and future city. There is an adage, which states you get what you pay for (Vonnegut 1967) and it is imperative for senior management to either invest in an outside firm or stay with in-house resources when it comes to the hiring of personnel for this location. Austin is a city which, has potential for growth yet many of the affluent are moving further west and east of the city and operating in the city has risks and benefits. How will Landslide Limousine attract customers and how will the employees fair in a market that is still in the process of reaching the top in Texas? Since the company expected revenue for the first year is -$50,000, utilizing in-house resources would be the first plan of action. In today’s society a quick and free method to use is Social Media as this would serve as an initial screening process. Austin is attracting the millennials and Social media is the third of three major forces shaping the millennial experience (Fallon 2014). As a word of caution, it is not the suggestion for Landslide to limit the employee pool to just Generation Y. Yet the benefits of being in tune with the demographics of the...
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...making it a category 1 hurricane causing some tree damage and killing two people. (Drye, 2005) The storm lost strength for a little while but once it hit the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, it rapidly gained momentum and before long reached wind speeds up to 175 mph making it a category 5 hurricane. On Sunday, 28 August, New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin, issued a mandatory evacuation order. Roughly 24 hrs later, the full strength of Katrina slammed into New Orleans and Biloxi. (Drye, 2005) Local and state emergency managers are responsible for coming up with a plan of action for different hazardous situations. Once a situation gets overwhelming for those levels of management, federal assistance is then requested. Prior to Hurricane Katrina’s arrival, various local emergency management agencies (LEMAs), such as local fire, police, and emergency medical personnel who respond to all manner of incidents such as earthquakes, storms, and floods have the lead responsibility for carrying out emergency management efforts. (U.S. House of Representative, 2006, p. 45) Also, according to the report, “State emergency management agencies, reporting to their respective governors, have primary responsibility for their states’ disaster...
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...Evacuations and Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . On September 1, 2005, with only twelve hours’ notice, various colleagues established a medical facility—the Katrina Clinic—at the Astrodome/Reliant Center Complex in Houston. By the time the resource facility closed about two weeks later, the Katrina Clinic medical staff had seen over 11,000 of the estimated 27,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees who sought shelter in the Complex. Herein, we designate the scope of this medical response, citing our major challenges, triumphs, and recommendations for conducting similar efforts in the future. The majority of patients who required more critical care, including hospital admission, were referred for further evaluation to publicly funded hospitals within the Harris County Hospital District, specifically, Ben Taub General Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital several times a day to reassess operations and accommodate the fluid situation. As we seek lessons from the evacuation of Hurricane Katrina, it is imperative that communications and disaster plans account for the specific obstacles run into by urban, minority communities. There work provides an opportunity to listen to the voices of the evacuees themselves. These voices lead us to believe that removing the obstacles of shelter and transportation will be insufficient to ensure safety in future disasters. Policies must additionally address the important influence of extended families and social networks through better community-based...
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...Pop and Selma’s Cafe WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY Goals This policy: Shows the commitment of Pop and Selma’s management and workers to health and safety Aims to remove or reduce the risks to the health, safety and welfare of all workers, contractors and visitors, and anyone else who may be affected by our business operations Aims to ensure all work activities are done safely. Responsibilities Management (the supervisor and / or manager) is responsible for providing and maintaining: a safe working environment safe systems of work plant and substances in safe condition facilities for the welfare of all workers any information, instruction, training and supervision needed to make sure that all workers are safe from injury and risks to their health Workers are responsible for: ensuring their own personal health and safety, and that of others in the workplace complying with any reasonable directions (such as safe work procedures, wearing personal protective equipment) given by management for health and safety * Date: .......................................................................................... Signed Manager: ....................................................................... Signed Worker: ...................................................................... Date to be reviewed: ................................................................... Pop and Selma’s Café STAFF CODE OF CONDUCT POLICY Dress Code- * Employees must...
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...government to assure their safety. As an individual, community, or government, we need to be prepared for an emergency disaster. And what makes the big difference is the degree of preparedness. The preparedness should be towards planning, educating and training the emergency mangers personnel and public. The level of disaster prevention management consist of three phase, prevention/primary, response/secondary and recovery/tertiary. In the primary phase the goal is to reduce the likelihood of diseases, injures, disabilities, and death causing by a disaster. The prevention should be towards identifying risk factor within the community and developing and planning a programs to prevent disasters from happening. The measures that should be include in this phase are educating, individual, family and community in regard to what action to take to prepare for disasters. The active surveillance of hurricanes in the U.S. is a type of primary prevention. Their strategy is to organize a plan to reduce the disaster's impact. For example during Hurricane Katrina the primary prevention was early warning and evacuation. According to the active surveillance of hurricanes in United State, this approach was very successful in regard to reducing the number of deaths associated with hurricanes. During hurricane Irene the local government of city of Trenton provided instruction for evacuation through telephone...
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...(Unit/Location on Project) Required PPE: LEVEL D Safety Access/Location Supervisor or Work: Safe Haven: TRAILER Wind Direction: Evacuation Route: AS POSTED Assembly Point: AS POSTED JSA Prepared By: Are other crews in area? YES (military) Pre-Job Preparation: 1. Fill Out JSA 2. Review JSA (crew) 3. Sign JSA (crew) New X Revised Job Task (What are you doing?) Audit the Job: Task # 1: Concrete Reinforcement PPE Level C Audit Time: Task # 2 Staging PV Modules on Roof PPE Level D Task # 3 Install PV Modules Potential Hazards Task # 1: Slips, Trips, Falls, Back Injury, Heat Stress, Epoxy Exposure, Splashing, Inhalation, Skin Irritation, Electrical Shock, Repetitive motion fire, EquipHeat Stress, Equipment Accidents Task# 2: Falls, Trips, Back Injury, Heat Stress, Equipment injury Supervisor’s Comments Task # 3: Trips, Falls, Electrical Shock, Equipment Injury, Pinches, Crushes, Lacerations, Back Strain. Heat Stress Task #4: Recommended Corrective Action or Procedure Task #1: -Proper Level C PPE shall be worn at all times. -Tyvek suits , eye protection, latex gloves and respirators shall be worn when working with epoxy. - Review Epoxy MSDS and store material at proper temperatures. -Conduct Heat Stress Monitoring -Review Emergency Evacuation Plan -Conduct pre-use inspections to include checks of full face respirators prior to daily use as well as grinders and power cords. Task # 2: ...
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...Editor’s Note: This Chapter is the continuation of an adaptation of a state plan for disaster preparation and response. In total, the original chapter comprises Chapters 1, 14, 16-18. Chapter Overview Many of you are reading this manual as part of your efforts to prepare as a spiritual care professional who will be ready to respond during times of disaster. Your main role will be to provide emotional and spiritual support to those affected by disaster, but it is also critical for you to understand the context in which you will be providing this support—the bigger picture, so to speak. Disaster relief operations are complex systems having more to them than just a response mechanism. They require a significant amount of pre-planning. Disaster experts have long known that waiting until a disaster strikes to test a community’s response procedures can be disastrous. How communities respond to disaster can even induce more stress on individuals and place them at risk for developing a variety of adverse reactions and psychological consequences. This section takes the first step towards introducing you to the key elements of disaster management and response at multiple levels. The focus of this chapter is on the framework of disaster planning, preparedness, and response. In the event of a disaster in your community, you may be asked and/or may want to help. It will help you to have an understanding of the structure of the overall response so that you know how your efforts will enhance...
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...Health and Safety Programs Succession Plan Crisis Contingency Plan Baderman Island Resort has contingency plans designed specifically to mitigate certain crisis situations in order to protect our employees, guests, facilities and all other assets. “An organizational crisis is a low-probability, high-impact event that threatens the viability of the organization and is characterized by ambiguity of cause, effect, and means of resolution, as well as by a belief that decisions must be made swiftly” (Breaux, D. & Premeaux, S., 2007)). The contingency plans outlined below are to be used in the event of a hurricane or an event of workplace violence. Employee assistance programs including counseling are available to any Baseman employee at any time. Hurricane Contingency Plan Baderman Island Resort’s Hurricane Contingency Plan is a three stage plan contingent upon advanced warning. Given enough lead time the resort will be secured and all staff and guests evacuated from the island to safety, in the unfortunate event of no advanced notice and evacuation is impossible the plan will shift and all personnel will shelter in place; finally recovery which entails bringing operations up and close to normalcy as possible. Advanced warning - evacuation. In the event that The National Weather Center model predicts a 60% probability of a direct hit within 48 hours, stage one will commence. General Manager will assume role of incident commander and coordinate efforts of the response...
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