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3 OVERVIEW Over the past few decades, airports have substantially improved their ability to mitigate and respond effectively to emergency situations. However, the final aspect of the overall response scenario, recovery, is often overlooked during planning because of the strong historical emphasis on prevention, mitigation, and response.
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4 Preparedness, Mitigation, Response, Recovery, and Their Relation to Resiliency In the traditional emergency management cycle, "preparedness" (used interchangeably with or in conjunction with "prevention") refers to actions taken in advance to be ready to respond to and recover from a specific type of risk, hazard, or incident.
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5 Smith discusses the interrelations among response, recovery, preparedness, and resiliency in the Caribbean Maritime Exchange blog: If a facility or organization seeks to be prepared, it must have clearly defined operational goals, a realistic and comprehensive risk or hazard analysis, an implementable plan to face those risks and hazards, and a staff that is trained and ready to carry out the plan before, during, and after a disaster. The same four components are necessary for making a facility or organization resilient, but some other aspects must be considered: • Time -- how long does the entity have to recover; how much warning will there be for an impending disaster?
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6 capacity. This study addresses four major types of incidents that may cause large operational disruptions at airports: • Aircraft accidents such as crashes, fires, or collisions; • Natural disasters, for example, hurricanes, floods, windstorms, tornados, earthquakes, ice storms, blizzards, wildfire, volcanic eruptions, dust storms, or sandstorms; • Criminal acts (also widely called manmade incidents)
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7 SCOPE OF THIS STUDY This study examines specific actions 37 U.S. airports took to recover from incidents, events, emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes that completely or partially closed the airports sufficiently to require recovery.
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8 Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) were selected.
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9 Case Examples The following criteria were applied to determine four case examples to illustrate post-incident recovery efforts: • Quality of the hotwash and after-action review (AAR) ; • Comprehensiveness of information available about recovery from the incident; • Shortest amount of time elapsed since the incident; • Magnitude of the incident; FIGURE 3 Position titles of interviewees.
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10 • Risk of occurrence of that incident subcategory (for natural disasters, criminal acts, and systems failures) ; • Clarity of lessons learned; • Intensity of efforts to apply and share lessons learned; and • Strength of evaluation methods.
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