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Disaster and Emergency Management Systems
Disaster and Emergency Management Systems
Disaster and Emergency Management Systems
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A primer for senior executives and practitioners in Disaster and Emergency Management Systems.
A practical guide to DEMS implementation. This book bridges the gap between the all-embracing reference volume and the academic treatise. It is clear, descriptive and simple, supported by case studies drawn from the litany of historic failures. Essential reading for anyone involved in running an enterprise - it could save your company and possibly even your life!

LanguageEnglish
PublisherToby Clark
Release dateMay 21, 2014
ISBN9781311457691
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    Disaster and Emergency Management Systems - Toby Clark

    Dedication

    To those involved in some of the disasters that have come to change the way we think about such events.

    Sept 11 2001 World Trade Center Collapse

    July 6 1988 Piper Alpha Rig Disaster

    Dec 21 1988 Pan Am Flight 103. Lockerbie

    Mar 6 1987 Herald of Free Enterprise Capsize

    Jan 28 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

    Oct 5 1999 Ladbroke Grove Rail Crash

    Apr 15 1989 Hillsborough Disaster

    July 7 2005 The London ‘7/7’ bombings

    Mar 8 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370

    Dec 2 1984 Bhopal

    Dec 11 2005 Buncefield Oil Terminal Explosion

    Apr 24 2013 Bangladesh Factory Collapse

    Apr 26 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Explosion

    Apr 20 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout

    Copyright

    Managing The Environment

    By Toby Clark BSc CFIOSH AIEMA Cert Ed

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2014 Toby Clark

    Disclaimer

    Whilst I have made every effort to ensure accuracy and that the text is up to date, I cannot accept legal liability for its contents. Specialist advice should always be sought, especially in legal matters!

    Copyright

    The moral rights of the author are asserted

    Material within this book was drawn from many sources and where such sources are known they have been acknowledged. If any copyright has been accidentally breached it was unintentional.

    In particular the chapter on Media Management draws on Tony Moore’s book ‘Disaster & Emergency Management Systems’.

    Thanks also go to Stephen Pace, Specialist Course Director, Department for Chemistry in Industry at the University of Hull and Dr Peter Waterhouse for their support and encouragement.

    Lastly to Raj Lakha who was instrumental in promoting DEMS and encouraging its development as a discipline.

    Hyperlinks

    Hyperlinks are extensively used, particularly to many excellent UK Government publications which relate to emergency planning. These are prone to being changed and your forbearance is requested should this arise.

    Purpose of this book.

    Whilst there is much relevant authoritative literature available, there is a need for a basic primer publication aimed at the busy executive or practitioner to take them into the process of appreciating the need for and the practicalities of implementation of a DEMS.

    This book endeavours to do just that!

    Contents

    Introduction A brief history of disasters

    Chapter 1 The Need for a DEMS

    Chapter 2 The Importance of Resilience

    Chapter 3 Emergency planning framework (UK Civil Contingencies Act 2004).

    Chapter 4 Steps in implementation

    Chapter 5 Major Incident Planning

    Chapter 6 Examples of Procedures

    Chapter 7 Media Management

    Chapter 8 Crisis Management: The crisis lifecycle

    Chapter 9 Business Continuity (BCM)

    Chapter 10 Stress and trauma response (PTSD)

    Chapter 11 Steps in a DEMS

    Chapter 12 Conclusions

    Professional Bodies

    List of Acronyms.

    Bibliography

    Other books by this author

    Introduction

    A brief history of disasters

    The history of disaster is as old as mankind and it is a sad certainty that the bigger we get, the harder we seem to fall.

    Some disasters find a special place in history, from Noah’s flood to the Bhopal Disaster in India (in which a lethal cloud of toxic chemical killed and maimed many thousands of innocent, unprepared people). Most of us worldwide will have heard of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11 2001 but everybody will have their own personal repository of some of the many disasters that have plagued us and will, it seems, inevitably continue to do so. Disasters are the stuff of media attention. Headlines broadcast them with almost gleeful delight no matter how much loss and suffering occur as a consequence of them. Some disasters are created by the media themselves or at least they have a major role in promulgating them. The News-International Phone Hacking Scandal is an excellent example! We look at media management later.

    Man-made and natural disasters

    It is useful to distinguish between the two in the sense that an angry nature, a so called ‘Act of God’ can be randomly inflicted upon us, sometimes without warning and completely unexpectedly. On the other hand, mankind

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