Communications is key to the success of disaster mitigation, response and recovery. This book covers terrorist incidents, accidents, and natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. It shows how to use blogs, text messages, and cell phone cameras as well as government channels and traditional media to communicate during a crisis.
Covering exercises, training curricula, and cost-effective recommendations, this manual prepares first responders to face multiple threats from multiple sources. Applying the concept of cross-training to round out skill-sets, it prepares these diverse outfits to assist each other and overcome traditional philosophical and logistical boundaries.
Examines the role of the police Family Liaison Officer (FLO) and care teams in mass fatality emergencies. This DVD identifies how crucial good working relationships are between agencies and explores the dynamics of these partnerships. It includes interviews with the Red Cross, and Westminster Council.
This is the first book to provide a detailed account of road traffic collisions in Ireland, with particular emphasis on the human cost of driver error. This is essential reading for everyone, from experienced drivers to those about to get behind the wheel for the first time.
Tackles the myriad recovery issues faced by federal, state, and local emergency managers in a long-term disaster recovery situation. This book includes topics such as recovery planning, housing, debris management, public and private sector recovery, and historical and cultural preservation.
The health services in South Africa have undergone a major reorientation in an attempt to provide the poorest and most vulnerable segments of society with increased access to affordable, quality health care. A key missing element has been the lack of an appropriate financial planning and budgeting system. This book intends to fill the void.
This text examines actual attempts to "prepare" for catastrophes and finds that the policies adopted by corporations and government agencies are fundamentally rhetorical: the plans have no chance to succeed, yet they serve both the organizations and the public as symbols of control and stability.
In order for a community to be truly prepared to respond to any type of emergency, it must develop effective emergency planning. Emergency Planning guides readers through the steps of developing these plans, offering a number of strategies that will help ensure success.
Risk is an enduring theme of modern life. It permeates the political, economic and environmental domains. This title provides ideas and action plans for risk, crisis, and disaster management in a risk society, based on late-modern approaches such as technological citizenship; delegated authority; and, exploitation of 'lay' knowledge.
This invaluable guide enables managers to manage their budgets more effectively. This books sets out how to set your budget, understand financial information and financial rules, get the most out of your accountant and your budget, and how to create a bid for more money.
Based on the fundamental heat mass transfer data, this book illustrates some examples of the applications of total heat recovery in novel HVAC systems. It covers knowledge from fundamental heat mass transfer data to novel systems design and performance analysis, from materials synthesis, characterisation to thermodynamics and fluid dynamics.
The Strategic National Stockpile, intended to provide the public with medical supplies in the event of a public health emergency, is woefully under-stocked with medical counter measures for children. This book examines existing capabilities that can and should be built upon to integrate children into preparedness, planning, response, and recovery.
What is it like to be on the receiving end of desperate calls for help, every day? The author, a former newspaper reporter and nursing student who couldn't stand the sight of blood, takes a job as an emergency dispatcher because she likes helping people. But on-the-job training at the comm centre proves to be more than she bargained for.
A textbook which describes the range of approaches to evaluation in healthcare and policymaking, and challenges some of the assumptions of the evidence based healthcare movement. It is for health practitioners, managers and policy advisers who need to use or carry out an evaluation.
Presents an overview of the nations fire problem. This book helps fire service and others with information that motivates corrective action, sets priorities, targets specific fire programs, serves as a model for state and local analysis of fire data, and provides a baseline for evaluating programs.
Is emergency management education undoing an age-old tradition in the American Fire Service? This title explores the skills being taught to emergency management students and addresses the concerns of experienced first responders in accepting their leadership. It discusses the value of emergency management education in the post-9/11 world.
Comprehensive pocket guide detailing the range of critical planning and response procedures for a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) incident. Fundamental on-scene procedural information ensures first responders have the resource necessary for planning for, responding to, and managing the aftermath of a CBRN incident.