If you look at the Response phase it may be considered the most critical one in terms of “Decision Making versus Available Time versus Risk Management”. However, in terms of loss prevention the Mitigation or Prevention phase may be considered the most critical one.

An emergency operations center (EOC) is a physical (e.g., a conference room) or virtual (e.g., telephone conference call) location designed to support emergency response, business continuity and crisis communications activities.

6 Points to Developing Emergency Operations Plans

1. Step 1: Form a Collaborative Team.
2. Step 2: Understand the Situation.
3. Step 3: Determine Goals + Objectives.
4. Step 4: Plan Development.
5. Step 5: Plan Preparation, Review + Approval.
6. Step 6: Plan Implementation + Maintenance.

To respond during emergencies or disasters, public health systems need to have seven core system capacities in place: (1) preparedness and response capabilities; (2) communication services; (3) information systems; (4) epidemiology/surveillance; (5) laboratory services; (6) policy and evaluation; and (7) workforce …

(1) Reduce, or avoid, losses from hazards; (2) Assure prompt assistance to victims; (3) Achieve rapid and effective recovery. Disaster management aims to reduce, or avoid, the potential losses from hazards, assure prompt and appropriate assistance to victims of disaster, and achieve rapid and effective recovery.

Prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery are the five steps of Emergency Management.

The steps are simple, but it takes time to find out what you could be facing and determine resources you need both inside the company and beyond.

• Step One Assess your needs.
• Step Two Create a written policy.
• Step Three Plan levels of response.
• Step Four Train your personnel.
• Step Five Do the audits.

Natural hazards are naturally occurring physical phenomena caused either by rapid or slow onset events which can be geophysical (earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis and volcanic activity), hydrological (avalanches and floods), climatological (extreme temperatures, drought and wildfires), meteorological (cyclones and …

Types of Disaster[edit | edit source]

• Geophysical (e.g. Earthquakes, Landslides, Tsunamis and Volcanic Activity)
• Hydrological (e.g. Avalanches and Floods)
• Climatological (e.g. Extreme Temperatures, Drought and Wildfires)
• Meteorological (e.g. Cyclones and Storms/Wave Surges)

Findings – Disasters are classified into three types: naturals, man-mades, and hybrid disasters.

Human-Caused Disasters Examples include industrial accidents, shootings, acts of terrorism, and incidents of mass violence. As with natural disasters, these types of traumatic events may also cause loss of life and property.

Reducing exposure to hazards, lessening vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improving preparedness for adverse events are all examples of disaster risk reduction.

A hazard becomes a disaster when it happens where many people are living or have their livelihoods and causes damage to them and their property. For example, during a flood many people drown or are injured, lose their animals and their property.

2. Answer the following questions in less than 30 words. (i) When can a hazard become a disaster? A hazard can become a disaster when it becomes active.

A natural hazard escalates into a natural disaster when an extreme event caused harm in significant amounts and overwhelms the capability of people to cope and respond. The severity of a disaster is commonly measured in terms of the dollars of damage it causes or in the number of deaths it causes.

A hazard becomes a disaster when it actually occurs and when it occurs in such a way that people are harmed. For example, a hurricane is a natural hazard while it is at sea. When the hurricane reaches land and destroys buildings and kills people, it is a disaster.

The takeaway here is that a hazard occurs (is “actualized”) when your operations interact with hazard sources. A threat is simply a generic way to describe danger, whether the danger has actualized or not.

Safety threat means present or impending danger from maltreatment that requires immediate action.

The following are examples of threats that might be used in risk identification or swot analysis.

• Competition. The potential actions of a competitor are the most common type of threat in a business context.
• Talent. Loss of talent or an inability to recruit talent.
• Market Entry.
• Prices.
• Costs.
• Approvals.
• Supply.
• Weather.

A verbal threat is a statement made to someone else in which the speaker declares that they intend to cause the listener harm, loss, or punishment. Although this definition sounds very similar to the definition for assault, simply uttering threatening words to another person will most likely not count as an assault.

Threats can be classified into four different categories; direct, indirect, veiled, conditional.

Threat can be anything that can take advantage of a vulnerability to breach security and negatively alter, erase, harm object or objects of interest. Software attacks means attack by Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses etc. Many users believe that malware, virus, worms, bots are all same things.

10 Most Common Types of Cyber Threats

• Malware.
• “Man in the Middle” (MitM) attack.
• Trojans.
• Ransomware.
• Denial of Service attack or Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)
• Attacks on IoT Devices.
• Data Breaches.
• Malware on Mobile Apps.

But what about an attack where nothing physical is touched, let alone destroyed? Cybersecurity breaches can result in hackers making their way into bank accounts, medical records, social media accounts, and more.