The Preparedness Cycle is an important organizational tool that is comprised of five phases of: mitigation, preparedness, prevention, response and recovery. These phases describe a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising and evaluating emergency preparedness activities and allows organizations to increase their overall capacity and resiliency to experience and recover from any type of disaster, manmade or otherwise. Not all disasters can be prevented but through proactive planning efforts, the Preparedness Cycle can be an effective mechanism to plan and mitigate the risk of life and loss during a disaster.
You are the Emergency Preparedness Manager for your community’s health department. Identify a potential natural disaster or infectious disease that your community may encounter (e.g. flooding). Using the five phases of development, create a training development process to provide to your faculty and staff and other outside agencies.
You are the Emergency Preparedness Manager for your community’s health department. Identify a potential natural disaster or infectious disease that your community may encounter (e.g. flooding). Using the five phases of development, create a training development process to provide to your faculty and staff and other outside agencies.
