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4 Practical Considerations of Emergency Preparedness
4 Practical Considerations of Emergency Preparedness
Pages 49-57
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Sometimes the emergency may last for weeks and cause concern in the public health sector. Thus, this phase needs 1This chapter was prepared by Dalia Gilbert from the transcript of the meeting.
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The processes of emergency management need to be formalized and stan dardized throughout the company. Xerox has their facilities and 60,000 employees worldwide, and even though the managerial level employees speak and under stand English, it may be challenging to convey the standards to the entire work force and to ensure that they are carried out.
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The Postal Services alone bought about 4 million respirators in the course of two weeks, and it took the procurement and environmental health and safety departments at Xerox about two weeks to locate available supplies for 1,000 people. Shelter in Place The other challenge that Xerox had was to include shelter in place planning while creating an emergency management plan.
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Similarly, additional communication needs to occur between industry and government agencies, noted Azar. Health and safety teams have difficulty obtaining accurate information.
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Emergency planners need to enable people to understand both what can happen and what actions they can take, and to understand that people are looking for information from a variety of sources. While federal government agencies have substantial information on emergency preparedness, emergency planners need to take into consideration that there are many people in the United States who do not turn to government for information, or trust government, asserted Lopes.
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The information available on the web sites is designed for those who commu nicate with the public: educators, web site designers, brochure writers, news If the same message is provided by letter article writers, and others. The in multiple organizations it becomes formation can be tailored depending on more credible.
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Legal Issues Housing for a significant number of displaced children may result in legal implications, especially when normal processes and access to information may be disrupted. Parents need to know where to look for their child in case of an emergency displacement, while local officials will need to define the parameters for transferring legal custody.
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It is very traumatic for a child to lose a parent or both parents in an incident, and it is essential that emergency management departments find a way to coordinate social workers, pediatric psychologists and, if needed, psychiatrists to help children in distress, noted Thomas. Thomas concluded by stating that the ultimate goal of every emergency management organization is to reunite children with their parents or relatives as quickly as possible.
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The second theme during the workshop was the call for building capacity, which will have to occur through partnerships between NGOs and the government, public and private sector organizations, and federal and local entities. Goldstein emphasized the critical partnership between federal and local governments because in the United States people rely heavily on local government.
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