This paper evaluates the Emergency Planning in the UK Public Services. Emergency responses and interventions are focused on delivering essential facilities are always unique depending on the situation under assessment. As emergency response groups are at the forefront in leading for interventions in case of a catastrophe, the public has a role to play at each local community level. Emergency situations have helped the locals to learn how to mitigate and strengthen the effects of conditions that require urgent attention. Responses have led to enhance the capacity of the personnel and the public involved in intervening in community response (Yáñez-Arancibia et al., 2014). Community response teams have been formed which educate residents on their preparedness in cases when disaster strikes equipping them with disaster response skills. Pieces of training have been conducted at the local level as a means of creating jointly available quality assistance when disaster looms. Considering the effects disasters have had in communities, community reserve volunteers have been seen applying for vacancies in UK emergency response organizations to help the locals in case of a crisis.

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Medium Term Impact of Emergency Situations
Emergency responses and interventions are focused on delivering essential facilities are
always unique depending on the situation under assessment. As emergency response groups are
at the forefront in leading for interventions in case of a catastrophe, the public has a role to play
at each local community level. Emergency situations have helped the locals to learn how to
mitigate and strengthen the effects of conditions that require urgent attention. Responses have led
to enhance the capacity of the personnel and the public involved in intervening in community
response (Yáñez-Arancibia et al., 2014). Community response teams have been formed which
educate residents on their preparedness in cases when disaster strikes equipping them with
disaster response skills. Pieces of training have been conducted at the local level as a means of
creating jointly available quality assistance when disaster looms. Considering the effects
disasters have had in communities, community reserve volunteers have been seen applying for
vacancies in UK emergency response organizations to help the locals in case of a crisis.
Medium impacts on the public personnel in case of emergency situations will include
establishing strategies based on the lessons learned from the response and finding out ways of
recovering from the situation. Civil service personnel in the UK have identified an emergency
preparedness plan which contains the guidelines and duties that are executed in case of an
emergency. The occurrence of crisis situations has helped in designing and improving the
robustness of the emergency response plan. The public service outlines the guidelines to include:
keeping a shared framework in various emergency response agencies at the community level,
having a shared role at the local level during response interventions and holding a standard
reference frame for all teams taking part in the response action. The effect of a crisis has helped

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in perfecting the response and recovery strategies in the public service to reflect on the
circumstances.
Impacts of crisis situations on the environment have brought in exposure to health risks to
humans in a variety of ways depending on the nature of the case. Environmental hazards have
been seen to cause detrimental effects on the environment which later turns to affect the human
environment during crisis events. Emergency situations such mudslides, earthquakes, floods
have caused stress to the human-environment relationship through the damage they do to the
environmental structures. Transport hitches are common in cases of flooding situations which
may bring up shortages in response personnel. Vector breeding areas have far going effects on
environmental health services depending on how worse the situation becomes.
Long-Term Impact of Emergency Situations
It is common to have difficulties which have long-term effects in the community after a
disaster has struck. The long-term problems that trail on in the community may sometimes be
unclearly identified considering that the tragedy hit a long time ago. Some communities have
become stronger in the long term after a disaster in dealing with issues of disaster response.
However, some of the adverse reactions will be held and remembered in a community depending
on the experience the locals had with the emergency situation. Memories of a disaster will often
come back in case another crisis strikes – it may be due to delayed improvement from the painful
feelings of the earlier tragedy. A community may again find further situation hard to handle
depending on the nature of response mechanisms set after a disaster has ended (Detels et at.,
2915). As a result of these situations, the public service has encouraged the community to have
locals who are equipped in emergency response for quick intervention in case of a crisis.

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Some disasters posed severe long-term challenges to the environment – most of the hard-
won gains in preserving and maintaining a conducive environment for social, economic and
human developments are drained away. Significant problems are then birthed out as the
environment struggles to restore its former state – some may include environmental health
challenges, global warming, infrastructural hitches as well as ecological degradation and
imbalance. The environment is often left more vulnerable in the long-term after a disaster which
threatens human dependence on the environment.
Strengths and Areas for Improvement
As the government works to ensure that all agencies are fully equipped for emergency
response, there is a need to test the emergency plans with all types of emergencies. Training
more staff who are located near communities to be involved in emergency responses and
interventions will significantly improve on the programs. Some areas have been identified as
disaster-prone locations – making sure that emergency response teams are available for
immediate reactions will save the locals from severe effects associated with extreme disasters.
Planning for exercises with the locals will guarantee the workability of an emergency
plan when disaster looms (Hammond & Zimmermann 2012). Sometimes emergency plans are
set but with fewer involvements of the communities and hence less awareness. Investing more in
emergency response plans will guarantee the success of the procedures established in a recovery
plan and the intensiveness of the pieces of training to be conducted. More focus on live exercises
will create a clear picture to the locals and build confidence and morale in responding to disaster
situations. Recruiting more volunteers from the locations prone to disasters and giving them
appropriate training will underpin the public service preparedness to emergency situations.

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Vital Elements of Different Emergency Plans
Current emergency response plans define the phases of the plan to be Preparedness,
mitigation, recovery, and response (Parker & Handmer 2013) Mitigation includes the activities
that are set in place to prevent an emergency from taking place. This may consist of reducing the
devastating impacts of extreme emergencies. Mitigation plans take place before a disaster and
after the response. Having emergency Insurance that protects loss of property is one of the
mitigation efforts. Preparedness includes the methods for the rescue and response operations to
save lives and evacuation plans which take place before a disaster occurs. Response actions are
employed to save lives where the preparedness plans are set into motion. Responses take place
during the disaster situation are focused on preventing more damages when a crisis strikes. In the
recovery phase, actions are taken to restore the status to normality which may include making
repairs for settlement after the emergency.
Emergency Response Improvements Recommended
Withholding information from the public would be a wrong idea considering that the
locals are the first target when disasters strike. Making sure there is clear communication
between the public and the personnel making sure they are the same page in case of an
emergency (Dadson, 2012). Today’s information leaks out through any means – sometimes
unauthentic – it would be of importance for the concerned organization to give reliable
communications to the public.
Sometimes technology will fail in case of a disaster, and the systems can go offline
preventing access to records in a health care response team. Improving on the hardware and

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software that will keep the response action operational earlier rather than waiting until a crisis
has happened will provide more alternatives to technological hitches.

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