HSEEP offers stakeholders with the necessary preparedness and opportunities to craft planning, validating and examining capabilities together with the areas that are worth improvement. By considering the National Preparedness Goal, the organization offer support in improving the national capacity of coming up with a capability to deal with a real challenge. Evaluation of exercises is also carried out meeting the strengths, improvement areas and corrective actions. Since there are numerous varieties of incidents, the disaster managers and organization leaders should make prior preparations to mitigate the impending risks. This paper will discuss the various principles of disaster management as asserted by HSEEP (Martinez et al, 2019)

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Ethics exist in almost all situations throughout the faces of life. Everybody at one stage in
life has had to make tough ethical decisions. However, the most difficult moral choices to be
made are found in the medical field, where patients and treatment are involved. Ethical theories
try to explain these issues and provide a justifiable answer which can help us in making moral
decisions (Butts, & Rich, 2019). Though these theories can be used as a justification of one's
actions and can be regarded as appropriate professional conduct, one's overall morals will make
up the reasoning behind the decision that he will ultimately make. Good morals can come from
religious organizations or non-religious philosophical studies. The combinations of these
morals, together with these theories, provide the basis of making tough decisions. If you want to
resolve a moral conflict and want to us the ethical theories to resolve the conflict, you first have
to understand them.
There are times we go through a dilemma of making choices which might affect the well-
being of other individuals, and of such, we go through a lot of moral suffering. Our overall moral
thinking, together with ethical theories, can help us make informed choices. First, let us briefly
look at these ethical theories. The first is Utilitarianism theory. Utilitarianism is a type of ethical
theory which determines the right from the wrong by concentrating on the outcomes (Bar Bowie,
2017). It is a type of consequentialism. This ethical theory holds that the choice that will
produce the greatest good for the largest number of people will be the best ethical choice.
Secondly, we look at Hypothetical imperatives and Categorical imperatives, better known
as Kant’s Ethics. The first imperative that Kant talks of is Hypothetical imperative. According to
Kant, Hypothetical imperative takes the conditional form of something, like; “if you want to get
this, you must do this." This type of imperative is not absolute or universal because it is mostly
conditioned to some desire or goal (Press.on, 2018). For example, if you must get an "A” in

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exams, then it is a must for you to study hard. Therefore, the hypothetical imperative is not
justifiable by itself, but as a way to an end; whether it is used as a command but all depends on if
it will achieve the desired or requested results.
Thirdly, we look at the other type of Kant’s Ethics, which is the categorical imperative.
According to Kant, a categorical imperative is an absolute and universal moral commitment
(Ficarrotta, 2016). This imperative symbolizes absolute and unconditional desire which allows
no exceptions, and is both desired and justifiable as an end in itself, and not as means to some
other end. This imperative describes what we are needed to do independently of what we may
prefer or desire. The imperative represents moral obligation which does not have the “if…and
then..” form. It provides behavior categorically.
At one time, I passed through a moral dilemma, which made me go through a lot of moral
suffering. My grandmother had stayed in the hospital for many months, and all this time, she was
being aided in breathing by a breathing machine. She felt that it was long overdue since she had
suffered a lot and just wished to be left to die peacefully. Since I had been raised by her, I was
the one required to sign the necessary papers. I was tortured psychologically to the extreme.
Religious morals state that ONLY God has the power to take away life and not the other
way round. Here was my grandmother, whom I loved so much, and here I was the one to sign the
necessary papers so that she is removed from the breathing aiding machine. Off-course it was
what she wanted, but it made me pass through a lot of moral suffering. After a lot of soul
searching and weighing at how generally most people will react, and from a religious point of
view, I decided to us the Utilitarianism ethical theory. Though it was her wish to be left to die

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peacefully because she was in great pains, majority of the relatives felt that it was good if we left
it to God to take her at His own time.

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