Hazard analysis

Answer 1 Risk assessments is a process where you distinguish risks. Investigate or assess the risk connected with that danger. Decide fitting approaches to dispose of or control the risk. In layman terms, a risk assessment is an in-depth look at your work environment to recognize those things, circumstances, forms, and so forth that may cause any particular harm, especially to individuals. After recognizable proof is made, you assess how likely and serious the risk is, and after that choose…

The fire service has many roles in the community and one of those roles is being a fire inspector. In this scenario, one is the fire inspector for a municipal fire department and a newly planned community if being built. It is the fire inspector duties to ensure that the water supply system is being installed correctly. One will discuss the type of hydrants to be installed, explain why one pick that particular hydrant, state how the hydrants will be tested, and provide spacing requirement…

Question #1 The Hazards Communication Standard (HCS) compliance checklist states that you must: Know the regulations; identify responsible staff; identify and list all chemicals; write the plan maintain good labeling on containers; provide quick access to MSDSs for all employees on all shifts; train all employees on all possible chemical exposures; frequently review and revise the program. (Haight, 2012, pg. 154). Of the eight HCS compliance checklist standards listed above “identify…

Week 4 Assignment DRP BCP and different sites: Edmond Bessette Bellevue University Class CIS 608 Kayleen Amerson 9/22/2017 In this assignment I will compare and contrast Disaster recovery plan (DRP) to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) to understand when and how to use each one. BCP uses Hot Warm and Cold as backup sites. These sites are not referring to temperature of the rooms instead the required work to continue operations at these backup sites. (Whiteman 2017) Disaster recovery…

Emergency Response to Terrorism This week for our discussion post, I decided to discuss and analyze the emergency response to terrorism: module 4: scene control. This module discusses the roles of an incident command(IC) and the steps that are required when responding to a natural disaster, hazardous materials or a terrorist attack. The incident command is handled by the incident commander in which he/she makes all operational decisions, managing and implementing all resources, and tactical…

Information Management and Information Technology in an MCI or Disaster Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an…

Preparedness is really the first step in Emergency Management. When your community is prepared, you are ready to handle a disaster. The degrees in preparedness comes from training scenarios, and drills to ensure that they community is ready in the event of a disaster. What does is actually mean to be prepared? If disaster strikes your community are you ready with emergency personal? Do you have city utilities on stand-by to respond to situations that might arise due to the disaster?…

activated on September 13th, 2001 (Sledzik et.al, 2012). Leading this fifty member team were eight anthropologist. Their mission was to help differentiate between human and non-human remains and collect all possible fragments of tissue and bones for analysis. This enabled them to determine the number of individuals that were on the plane and make a biological profile (Sledzik et.al, 2012). The anthropologists were instrumental in documenting and removing the physical remains of all the victims…

The majority of people exposed to any type of a disaster do well and may have only mild transitory symptoms. However, some people develop specific psychological reactions which occur during the seven stages of a disaster. The extent of which the psychological mortality that manifests in people in the community is dependent upon the type of disaster, the experience, the disruption caused to the community, the amount of life threat and the extent of injury sustained (Ursano, Fullerton & Norwood,…

What is Expedia First Responder Expedia First Responder is a tool that helps people go places when they need it most. It helps people find lodging places when a natural disaster happens by providing a streamlined and relevant booking experience during a major emergency. why do we need it? Natural disasters are unstoppable and beyond our control. 160 million people are impacted every year. Although it cannot be prevented, we can do our best to help people finding safe places to stay when it…