Tag: Hazard mitigation

Analyze in detail how the event prompted changes in policies, procedures, and planning.Summarize the scenario. What made it a crisis event?

M2A1

Using the information you have learned in the Homeland Security and Emergency Management program, and from the completion of the FEMA Independent Study Course IS 393b Introduction to Hazard Mitigation, write a paper on policies, procedures, and planning in homeland security and emergency management. Specifically, your paper should include the following:

1.Select a real-world crisis event occurring in the past 5 years.

2.Summarize the scenario. What made it a crisis event?

3.Analyze in detail how the event prompted changes in policies, procedures, and planning.

Create a mitigation action plan for the future based on lessons learned from this event. In the mitigation action plan discuss the mitigation techniques, policies and procedures, and necessary stakeholders that would be implemented if the crisis event occurred again. Remember, you are mitigating for a better outcome than the original event.

Write a 5–7 page (1250-1500 word) paper Word format. Use the American Psychological Association (APA) style (7th ed.) for writing your assignment.

Explain how these response requirements to emergency situations may or may not be different if the emergency situation involves terrorism.

Implementing the Plan, Managing the Response

In this assignment, you will outline the steps to successful response to and implementation of a comprehensive emergency response plan.

In your paper,

Identify a specific type of hazard that is prevalent in your area, or use the one you identified for your discussion.

Review the response protocols for three specific entities in the community.

Examples include; law enforcement, fire protection, public works, the multifaith community, hospital, gas/electric supplier, etc.

Analyze the response requirement of your selected entities as compared to their “normal” duties and responses within the community.

Explain the similarities and differences between the response requirements of the agencies selected.

Illustrate how these groups may provide hazard mitigation, and demonstrate adaptation and resilience techniques to reduce hazard vulnerabilities.

Explain how these response requirements to emergency situations may or may not be different if the emergency situation involves terrorism.