Emergence management

Emergency Management
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Emergency Management
Introduction
World Health Organization (WHO) defines emergencies as situations where normal proceedings are compromised, and abrupt interventions are required to prevent those situations from turning into disasters (WHO, 2018). Hence, emergency management is vital towards the avoidance of disasters, which are often even hard to recuperate from entirely. From that, we can define emergency management as the management and organization of responsibilities and resources for tackling all facets of emergencies by exhibiting responsiveness, preparedness, and recovery. The goal is to lessen the impacts of all disasters, including hazards. Also, worth noting is that emergency management is slightly different from disaster management (Schwab et al., 2016).
In most cases, the initial step when formulating an emergency management strategy is to carry out risk valuation to pin out possible emergency situations. Comprehension of what can transpire can enable one to identify supplies needed and to develop procedures and plans to ready the involved. The emergency strategy ought to be parallel to the performance objective. At the very least, each stakeholder ought to formulate and carry out an emergency strategy for defending personnel, contractors, visitors, and anybody else in the building. In all emergencies, the first urgency is always to save lives. The second urgency is to stabilize the situation (Schwab et al., 2016).
Insurance as a Strategy for Emergency Preparedness
Insurance as a strategy for emergency preparedness can be integrated into the overall emergency management policy.

An emergency readiness strategy is vital for institutions of all scopes. It is vital to be prepared for whatsoever. Businesses are mostly located in cities, the concentration of wealth and people in cities make them inherently hazardous. Therefore, businesses are often confronted by curveballs that can compromise their whole operation. Thus, it is essential to have an insurance package to reduce the impacts of the aftermath. And yet, a significant number of small to average businesses do not have insurance nor an emergency readiness strategy laid down. Indeed, a small organization, which often runs from one location, is more susceptible to major disasters than bigger businesses with numerous addresses (Botzen et al., 2017).
In this regard, it is always significant to ensure that the institution’s insurance coverage supplements the organization’s emergency management requirements. For instance, this takes into account certifying that the policy is adequate and covers employees, equipment, office space, company vehicles, and inventory. Additionally, this can be complemented by identifying the issues or risks, human-made or natural, that the institution might face. An emergency management plan will outline actions to thwart or/and ways to manage what may transpire. Furthermore, other basic disaster management tasks are identifying evacuation paths and stakeholder’s assembly place. The strategy ought to also consist of some form of safe structures that would protect stakeholders from hazardous elements. It is also crucial to enlighten the stakeholders about the emergency plan since it makes no value to create a plan and no one is aware of its particulars. Therefore, an organization is supposed to hold an exercise or drill annually to keep stakeholders as per with the emergency stipulations. Besides, Emergency management strategies will need to be regularly updated to account for any changes in the environment (Oloruntoba et al., 2017).
Climate-Induced Challenges in Emergency Management
The need for tight emergency management policies has become more critical as a growing population. For example, that is increasingly accelerating climate change, continues put more assets and people in disaster’s harm’s way. More extreme climate changes marked by rising water levels will necessitate improved emergency management policies to save lives and limit the increase of economic losses.
The rising fear surrounding climate change comes against the backdrop of increasing concern about natural disasters susceptibility. The past several years have witnessed a fall in the number of persons that perish in disasters. Regardless, it has also witnessed a dramatic rise in the impacts as a result of loses socio-economically. Therefore, this is a sign of the growing vulnerability to natural disasters. The increasing vulnerability is closely connected to developmental patterns: population growth, ecologically hazardous practices, urbanization, climate change, and short-term economic strategies collectively giving rise to a vulnerable society. Whereas climate change is playing an active role, the key source of increasing losses to disasters the societies vulnerability. Anticipated outcomes connected to climate change will complicate the current efforts in emergency management making the challenge of reducing risks more pressing and more difficult at the same time (Runhaar et al., 2016).
Climate change will greatly impact the functioning of many institutions and governments. Although some bearings can be predicted relatively accurate, others will only manifest when climate change advances. Change in a climate not only uncertainties but also increases the raises the risks. A region may experience a once-a-decade typhoon one year and by extreme flooding or heat wave the following year. In this case, a ‘well-prepared’ institution will be alert and will be worrying about what is at stake, and will augment its tactics to lessen stakeholder’s vulnerability to such disasters (Runhaar et al., 2016).
Conclusion
The paper set out to discuss the particulars of interest with regard to emergency management. Indeed, as we have seen, the main focus of an emergency management program is principally on the readiness of responding sufficiently to disasters. The paper has also highlighted the importance of insurance as part of an emergency management package. As an associated concern, the paper has also stressed on the need for nations and organizations alike to formulate emergency management plans that will counteract the impacts of extreme weather events and climate change. An approach that needs to be done with care since the uncertainties associated with climate change will only increase the disaster risks and make the endeavor of counteracting them more urgent more difficult at the same time.
References
Botzen, W. W., Kunreuther, H., & Michel-Kerjan, E. (2017). Protecting Against Disaster Risks: Why Insurance and Prevention May Be Complements.
Oloruntoba, R., Sridhar, R., & Davison, G. (2017). A Proposed Framework of Key Activities and Processes in the Preparedness and Recovery Phases of Disaster Management. Disasters.
Runhaar, H. A. C., Uittenbroek, C. J., Van Rijswick, H. F. M. W., Mees, H. L. P., Driessen, P. P. J., & Gilissen, H. K. (2016). Prepared for climate change? A method for the ex-ante assessment of formal responsibilities for climate adaptation in specific sectors. Regional Environmental Change, 16(5), 1389-1400.
Schwab, A. K., Sandler, D., & Brower, D. J. (2016). Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness: An Introductory Text for Emergency Management and Planning Professionals. CRC Press.
World Health Organization. (2018). Definitions: Emergencies. Retrieved, on January 15, 2018, from http://www.who.int/hac/about/definitions/en/