Emergency management

Opportunities for improvement using Lean Management and Six Sigma principles The lean management principle originally came from the Toyota manufacturing system and it refers to the concept of reducing waste and eliminating defects during the production process. In lean management, firms analyze their operations to point out wastes and areas of inefficiencies before developing solutions to minimize these wastes and promote efficiency. While lean management principles are largely applied in the…

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration provided federal funds so that the government would not exhaust its resources and face a budget deficit when beginning state relief programs for the unemployed. The Public Works Administration started a construction program…

Emergency Support Function 4 Firefighting (ESF 4) is an emergency support function that I am familiar with, having to write the one for the City that I work for. For the City of Groveland ESF 4 is the City of Groveland Fire Department. Support agencies are the other municipal fire departments, as well as, the Florida Forest service. The purpose of ESF 4 is to establish uniform procedures for effective coordination of emergency response and personnel assignments upon implementation of the…

“is the manager position residing in the hierarchical layer between first line supervisors and higher management, such as department or division head or executive, depending on organizations size; they generally supervise the first line supervisor” (p.4). In today’s health care field middle managers are crucial in the functionality of the system and are seen as facilitator between upper management and the department.…

Outcome: Although, Search and Rescue teams were dispatched immediately, there was no place to put survivors. The Superdome was the designated shelter during the hurricane. Yet, emergency management officials intended to utilize the Superdome only during the hurricane; it filled up quickly once flood victims were added. Because flooding was not planned for, the Superdome lacked a steady supply of essential resources (e.g. food, water, toilet paper, and baby supplies). Once the Superdome was full,…

business operation during a disaster. Business owners have the obligation to create, implement and maintain Disaster recovery plans (DRP) in order to successfully accomplish continuity of operations and a speedy recovery, during the recovery phase. Emergency Managers can assist local business owners…

Department with a background in the fire service throughout high school and college. He is taking this class to continue to complete his bachelor’s degree in Homeland Security and Emergency management. While spending time with his two daughters he enjoys fishing and the outdoors. In addition to learning more about the emergency services he is dedicated to mastering…

The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) has described a critical incident, such as that described above, as an overwhelming and powerful event that lies outside the range of human experience, and which has the potential to exhaust one’s usual coping mechanisms, thus resulting in psychological distress and disruption of normal adaptive functioning.1 The stress response following a critical incident has been described as a second victim phenomenon.2 More specifically, a second victim…

Post accident, random, and pre-employment drug tests are all options that Pinkerton gladly provides. A hiring management system is also available to provide companies with an increased applicant flow, low cost, standardized hiring process. The management system consists of a seven-stage process that includes tracking, screening, onboarding, and performance management, off boarding, sourcing, and selection. The Pinkerton Agency has grown into a very profitable and successful business within…

Customs and Border Protection , through Air and Marine Operations (AMO), is responsible for identifying potential air threats to the United States, i.e. aircraft involved in the aerial transit of contraband into the United States. AMO conducts air surveillance operations by detecting, monitoring, and tracking suspect cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft. Surveillance (observation), combined with intelligence, law enforcement case work and open source information, creates air domain…