EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,RESPONSES AND FIRE SAFETY
Emergency is a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action
The planning phase starts at preparedness, where the agencies
decide how to respond to a given incident or set of circumstances. This
should ideally include lines of command and control, and division of
activities between agencies. This avoids potentially negative situations
such as three separate agencies all starting an official rest
centre for victims of a disaster.
Following an emergency occurring, the agencies then move to a response phase,
where they execute their plans, and may end up improvising some areas
of their response (due to gaps in the planning phase, which are
inevitable due to the individual nature of most incidents).
Agencies may then be involved in recovery following the incident,
where they assist in the clear up from the incident, or help the people
involved overcome their mental trauma.
The final phase in the circle is mitigation, which involves
taking steps to ensure no re-occurrence is possible, or putting
additional plans in place to ensure less damage is done. This should
feed back in to the preparedness stage, with updated plans in place to
deal with future emergencies, thus completing the circle.
Element of emergency preparedness and response (ERP)
ERP SHOULD
CONTAIN
1.Planning
2.Practicing
3.Evaluating
4.Adjusting
The Basic of Fire
The List the Classes of Fire
The Types of Fire Extinguisher
