This document outlines the key elements of emergency management. It defines an emergency as an unforeseen situation that requires immediate action. An effective emergency plan establishes teams and resources to respond promptly to emergencies to prevent substantial loss. The plan should provide orderly actions and decision making. Elements of the plan include preparedness through planning and training; mitigation and prevention to reduce vulnerability and hazards; response through immediate lifesaving actions and short-term effects management; and recovery through near and long-term actions to return to normal operations. Safety is critical and it only takes a second for an accident to destroy the work of safety programs and awards.

1. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

2. OVERVIEW
• Emergency is a sudden unforeseen situation( usually
involving danger/pain/bleeding or life threatening)
that requires immediate action or attention.
• During an emergency , one should expect confusion
and an interruption of communication link. Condition
may become chaotic. An emergency plan should
enable those responsible for recovery to focus on
solving major problems .
• Responding promptly to an emergency may prevent
it from substantial loss.

3. • An emergency plan should provide the basis
for orderly actions and making decisions that
minimize loss.

4. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
• The logical beginning of emergency
management is the development of a plan
that does the following.
• Defines an emergency in terms relevant to the
organisation. e.g. Bomb threat, Fire, Explosion
• Flood, Active shooting , Armed robbery, heart
attack etc.
• Establishes a team to perform specific tasks,
before, during and after an emergency.

5. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
• Establishes a method for using available
resources and for obtaining additional
resources at the time of an emergency.
• Provides a means for moving normal
operations into and back out of the
emergency mode of operations.

6. ELEMENTS OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.

7. PREPAREDNESS
Preparedness involves actions taken before an
event to plan, organize, equip, train and exercise
to ensure an effective response such as public
education, emergency information, training and
exercises, preparing plans and operation centres
and establishment of communication systems.

8. MITIGATION & PREVENTION
• Actions taken/ activities which reduce or
eliminate the effects of an emergency. Such as:
• Protecting Hotel guest, staffs, contractors, visitors
and the facilities in order to decrease the
vulnerability to injury or damages.
• Preventing the emergency or occurrence of a
hazard.
• Containing the hazard in order to change its
nature and thus lessen its threat.

9. RESPONSE
• Response include the immediate actions taken to save
lives, property and meet basic human needs. (manage
victims: treat, triage, transfer , disposition)
• Addresses short term and direct effects of an incident
• Execution of emergency operations plans and of
mitigation activities designed to limit the loss of life,
personal , injury, property damage, and other
unfavourable outcomes.
• Applying intelligence & other information to lessen the
effects or consequences of an incident.

10. RECOVERY
• This involves near – terms and long – term action
taken to return the organisation to a pre –
emergency level of operation or to a new level of
operation.
• All effort may include implementation of
continuity of operation or business resumption
plans, activation of emergency relocation sites,
and reconstruction or restoration at the original
location or new permanent location. Such as
operational, financial and return to normal
operations.

11. AED REFRESHERS

15. GENERAL SAFETY – A SINGLE SECOND
• It takes a minutes to write a safety rule.
• It takes an hour to hold a safety meeting.
• It takes a week to plan a good safety program.
• It takes a month to put that program into operation.
• It takes a year to win a safety award.
• It takes a lifetime to make a safe worker.
• But it takes only a second to destroy it all- with one
accident.
• Take the time now to work safe and help your fellow
associates to be safe.