MASS FATALITY MANAGEMENT

Mass Fatality Management
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Mass Fatality Management
There are fundamental principles and procedures that should be noted while training for a mass fatality plan. Firstly, training should focus on the local hazards that can lead to a mass fatality as well as the type of hazards, their frequency and the level of impact. The command structure should be outlined while offering a chart for the chain of command including finance and administration, logistics as well as planning. Further, the legal authority of dealing with lifeless bodies from the point of evaluation by a pathologist to the actual burial procedure should be discussed. The ways of emergency communication and arrangements for transport should be clearly outlined. Training on mass fatality event response should also feature the identification of provisions regarding the welfare requirements of the family as well as friends including a particular area for viewing bodies. The procedure of releasing the dead for burial should be outlined and it should be agreed in advance with the relevant partners that are responsible for a death investigation.
A mass fatality preparation, as well as deployment, will be divided into four distinct stages; mitigation, preparedness, response and the recovery phase. According to Farazmand (2014), the mitigation phase entails decisions by government to prepare as well as to preposition its emergency management resources to contain the different effects of the estimated disasters.

Preparedness, on the other hand, will feature efforts to install organizational response systems including different types, levels and techniques of governmental and nongovernmental organizations that are likely to be engaged in responding to a disaster. Preparedness will also entail public notification and warning on the most relevant strategies for preparing for a natural disaster. Immediate response to a fatal incident entails a situation evaluation, allocation of crucial resources to a catastrophe locus and populace, and the command and control of both governmental as well as nongovernmental actions, equipment, money and information by an administrative agency. Lastly, the post-recovery phase will entail the long-term restoration of social structures, monetary as well as physical infrastructure.
The emergency management office will manage the overall disaster plan by integrating the disaster programs functions as well as the supporting events to protect the population from hazards. The director of the office has the responsibility of providing oversight of the plan and ensure that there is policy compliance, efficiency and readiness. The office will also develop policies as well as procedures while providing continuity of planning efforts in various departments. The office, in addition, will be responsible for providing situational awareness of emergency undertakings for senior leadership of the department (U.S. Department of the Interior, 2018). Lastly, the emergency office will integrate emergency data from different bureaus as well as agencies with emergency mitigation activities into a common operating system to meet the information sharing goal.
The Hospital plays a major role in the emergency preparedness and emergency management. The role of the hospital can be described in terms of the main personnel roles as well as functions. Firstly, there is a hospital incident commander whose assumes the general leadership for executing the emergency plan. The other personnel is the medical command physician whose function is to decide the number, acuity as well as resource requirements of patients (Blair, Ignatavicius, Rebar, Winkelman & Workman, 2015). The triage officer on another hand may be a nurse or physician who rapidly analyzes every patient to establish the priorities for treatment. Finally, the civic data officer functions as a link between the hospital and the press. Several other roles can be described within the institutional emergency response plan.
References
Blair, M., Ignatavicius, D., Rebar, C., Winkelman, C., & Workman, M. (2015). Medical-surgical Nursing: Patient-centered Collaborative Care. London: Elsevier Health Sciences.
Farazmand, A. (2014). Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Practice, Second Edition (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
U.S. Department of the Interior. (2018). About the Office of Emergency Management. Retrieved from https://www.doi.gov/emergency/about