Post by woodyz on Jan 26, 2014 17:59:25 GMT -7
‘Emergency planning should aim where possible to prevent emergencies occurring, and when they do occur, good planning should reduce, control or mitigate the effects of the emergency. It is the systematic and ongoing process which should evolve as lessons are learnt and circumstances change’ (Office, 2013).
‘Emergency planning should be viewed as part of a cycle of activities beginning with establishing a risk profile to help determine what should be the priorities for developing plans and ending with review and revision, which then restarts the whole cycle’ (Office, 2013). The cyclical process is common to many risk management disciplines, such as Business Continuity and Security Risk Management, as set out below:
• Recognition or identification of risks
• Ranking or evaluation of risks
• Responding to significant risks
• Tolerate
• Treat
• Transfer
• Terminate
• Resourcing controls
• Reaction Planning
• Reporting & monitoring risk performance
• Reviewing the Risk Management framework
There are a number of guidelines, or publications in respect of Emergency Planning, published by various professional organisations such as ASIS, FEMA and the Emergency Planning College. There are very few Emergency Management specific standards (CWA 15931-1:2009 Disaster and emergency management). Emergency Management as a discipline tends to fall under business resilience standards (ISO/PAS22399:2007 Societal security - Guideline for incident preparedness and operational continuity management).
In order to avoid, or reduce significant losses to a business, it is essential that emergency managers identify, anticipate and implement processes to respond to critical risks, in order to reduce the probability of their occurrence, or the magnitude and duration of impact. It is essential for them to not only have controls in place to handle the emergency, but they should also have plans to ensure Business Continuity of critical operations post-incident.
It is essential for an organisation to include procedures for determining whether an emergency situation has occurred and at what point an emergency management plan should be activated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_planning
‘Emergency planning should be viewed as part of a cycle of activities beginning with establishing a risk profile to help determine what should be the priorities for developing plans and ending with review and revision, which then restarts the whole cycle’ (Office, 2013). The cyclical process is common to many risk management disciplines, such as Business Continuity and Security Risk Management, as set out below:
• Recognition or identification of risks
• Ranking or evaluation of risks
• Responding to significant risks
• Tolerate
• Treat
• Transfer
• Terminate
• Resourcing controls
• Reaction Planning
• Reporting & monitoring risk performance
• Reviewing the Risk Management framework
There are a number of guidelines, or publications in respect of Emergency Planning, published by various professional organisations such as ASIS, FEMA and the Emergency Planning College. There are very few Emergency Management specific standards (CWA 15931-1:2009 Disaster and emergency management). Emergency Management as a discipline tends to fall under business resilience standards (ISO/PAS22399:2007 Societal security - Guideline for incident preparedness and operational continuity management).
In order to avoid, or reduce significant losses to a business, it is essential that emergency managers identify, anticipate and implement processes to respond to critical risks, in order to reduce the probability of their occurrence, or the magnitude and duration of impact. It is essential for them to not only have controls in place to handle the emergency, but they should also have plans to ensure Business Continuity of critical operations post-incident.
It is essential for an organisation to include procedures for determining whether an emergency situation has occurred and at what point an emergency management plan should be activated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_planning
