Mitigation
Preparedness Planning
Response
Recovery
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Mitigation:
Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management. It is
the ongoing effort to prevent, avoid, control or lessen the impact out-of-course events
have on people and property. Mitigation involves keeping valuable records in fire proof
cabinets, engineering buildings to withstand earthquakes, creating and enforcing effective
building codes to protect people as they evacuate buildings during fires or hazardous
material spills.
Mitigation is “sustained action that reduces or
eliminates long-term risk to people and property from natural hazards and their
effects”. In practice, mitigation can take many forms. It can involve actions such as
securing shelves and filing cabinets to nearby walls, enforcing building codes and
standards- such as no corridor obstructions or storage, using fire-retardant materials in
new construction, keeping copies of valuable records
and notes at accessible off-site locations in secure, fire-resistant storage, etc.
College Mitigation Opportunities and
Efforts
Online Hazard Reporting
Form
Preparedness/Planning
When disaster strikes, the best protection is knowing what to
do. Preparedness involves developing plans for responding to out-of-course events,
training personnel to perform their assigned function during the response, and practicing
that response before the event (exercising the plan).
General
Emergency Guidelines
Department Planning
Response:
When a disaster or emergency strikes, a coordinated response
aimed at saving lives and protecting the environment and property is critical. The
elements of a response plan include effective leadership and a resource center and
communication hub from which to operate; hazard stabilization plan; personnel evacuation,
sheltering and welfare plans, emergency medical services and strategies for providing
effective public information.
Recovery:
Ensuring critical systems and services are in place in order
to restore operations is the focus of the recovery plan. Pre-structured procedures and
arrangements enable a continuity of activities during the period consequences are in
effect. Recovery plans are intended to mitigate the impact, consequences and affects of
the event, and restore as intended function to the institution.
Department Recovery Plan
Template