What is disaster management?

Answer 1

You might want to check out Fema.gov for more information on this. There are many categories of disaster management and each having different degrees of coverage.

In general disaster managemnt is the identification, control and remediation of major accidents, weather events, fires and similar problems which impact people or infrastructure.

We all face "small" disasters and apply these same steps. Assume you are painting a wall and drop the open can of paint - a household disaster. You immediately see where the paint landed, the amount spilt, where it splattered and valuable or vulnerable obects that would have to be dealt with first (This is the identifiication step which gives you an idea of the work that will be required to control the problem). You next step would be to set the can upright, move the cat to safety, stop the paint from draining down the floor vent, and get all the rags and paper towels along with garbage bags tiogether to clean up the mess (this is the control stage). The remediation is the cleaning up of the pools of paint, washing out the rugs, calming your spouse, and returning things to normal. The final stage is to review the incident to see what you could have done better to prevent the incident or minimize the damage.

Answer 2

Some of the advantages of disaster management:

• You can start by developing a disaster recovery / business continuity plan - this will help identify areas of concern. You could engagement with a large community to help you - arrange brainstorming events, interviews, workshops, prepare checklists, questionnaires, get expert facilitation, use data from previous projects, review assumption lists etc. The act of doing this will help you assess each event on a probability scale (1 being highly unlikely to 5 being highly likely).
• Effort can be concentrated on the top 10 events/issue, or the events which have the more importance to the project, the greatest size/value, the most complex or those with a stability/novelty or unknown element.
• Contingency or fallback plans can be developed for the top 10 events or to cover the majority of events.
• Having a plan can help influence the future procurement of new capabilities and services, and even help to dictate where they should be located in order to improve the disaster management in future.
• Issues/events can have owners responsible for ensuring processes are implemented, people are trained, and regular update reports on progress are provided to senior management.
• Future budgets can be set for future improvements.
• It improves corporate knowledge and experience and can prompt people to think laterally and look for alternative solutions, if reviewed regularly.
• Doing something is always better than doing nothing.

Some of the disadvantages of disaster management:

• It can cost a lot of money to develop and implement.
• It can take a lot of effort to do it properly, away from the projects themselves.
• It is not worth doing if it is not done properly.
• It can money to keep it current and update the systems periodically.

Disaster Management is a bit like an Insurance Policy, if you never need it, you wonder why you bought it. But, if you ever do need it, you are ever so glad you did.

Answer 3

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