Emergency Management Planning

• Emergency management involves organized activities to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from potential emergencies.
• Hazard identification is a structured process to identify hazards in a specific area, including their causes and features.
• Emergencies can be classified by their onset speed, such as slow-onset (flooding) or sudden-onset (earthquake).

Definitions

• Public health emergency management focuses on preventing, mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from potential public health aspects during emergencies.

• Emergency management programs are risk-based and include elements like prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

• An emergency plan directs an organization's internal and/or external response.

Pillars of Emergency Planning

• Prevention/mitigation aims to prevent the effects of events like floods.
• Preparedness involves developing the capacity to respond.
• Response is the action taken during an event like a flood.
• Recovery addresses the event's aftermath, such as dealing with flood consequences.

Preparedness

• Includes plans/preparations to save lives and assist in response/rescue operations.
• Preparedness activities occur before an emergency.
• Alert Ready is Canada's National Public Alert System's public-facing brand name.
• It delivers potentially life-saving alerts through TV, radio, and compatible wireless devices.
• Alert Ready was developed with partners to ensure Canadians receive alerts and know when to take action.
• Response involves actions taken to save lives and prevent property damage; enacting preparedness plans during an emergency.
• Response activities happen during an emergency.
• CBRNE refers to Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, and Explosives events.
• Canada's Resilience Strategy and Action Plan promotes integrated capability for CBRNE events.

Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)

• CERC combines elements of crisis and risk communication during emergency response.
• Mixed messages from experts, late information, unaddressed rumors, and power struggles can undermine success.

Communication

• Communication successes include: executing a communication plan, being the first information source, expressing empathy, and demonstrating expertise.

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

• Hazard identification and risk assessment involves planning the goals and process and Identifying hazards with harm potential and involves community knowledge.
• A hazard could affect people beyond the community's response capacity.
• Significant damage, interrupted processes, and the potential declaration of emergency are hazard indicators.

Wildfires Evacuation

• Wildfires can lead to evacuation alerts and evacuation orders.
• Evacuation orders mean immediate evacuation is crucial.
• Evacuation alerts mean to be ready to leave.

Vulnerability and Resiliency

• Vulnerability relies on susceptibility and resilience.
• Low-resilience communities with high disease prevalence may be at higher risk during disasters.
• Water-supply issues can arise at any stage of an emergency.
• At least 15 liters of water per person per day should be accessible as soon as possible.

Radiation/Nuclear Emergencies

• Radiation/Nuclear Emergencies have 3 phases during a major nuclear incident.
• The early phase spans from the threat of a release to a few hours after it begins.
• The intermediate phase lasts from a few hours to 1-2 days post-release.
• The recovery phase occurs from weeks to years following the release.