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Emergency Management

Emergency Management. Art Kirkland Director Office of Emergency Management. What is Emergency Management?.

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Emergency Management

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  1. Emergency Management Art Kirkland Director Office of Emergency Management

  2. What is Emergency Management? • The objective of all dedicated employees is to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. • However, when you are up to your arms in alligators, it is difficult to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

  3. Phases of Emergency Management • Mitigation • Preparedness • Response • Recovery

  4. Phases of Emergency Management

  5. Mitigation • Attempts to prevent disasters or • Reduce the effects of disasters • Risk Assessment • Catastrophe Modeling

  6. Preparedness • Continuous cycle of: • Planning • Organizing • Training • Equipping • Exercising • Evaluation • Improvement activities

  7. Agenda • What is emergency management? • Phases of emergency management • Principles of emergency management • Hurricane plan specifics • Where do you fit in? • Questions

  8. Preparedness at Tulane • Emergency Plans • EOP • Hurricane Plan • Emergency messaging system • Exercises • Annual hurricane table top • Joint exercises with NOPD, NOFD, TEMS

  9. Response

  10. Recovery • Goal: To put it back like it was • Build back better • Begin the mitigation process again • Learn from where damage occurred

  11. Principles of Emergency Management • Emergency management should be: • Comprehensive • Progressive • Risk-driven • Integrated • Collaborative • Coordinated • Flexible • Professional

  12. Hurricane Plan Specifics • Mitigation • Preparation • Response • Recovery

  13. Hurricane Plan SpecificsMitigation • You can’t prevent it so…. • Risk assessment • What could go wrong? • How likely is it? • What is the damage if it does?

  14. Hurricane Plan SpecificsPlanning • Compare last year’s plan to template • How does shelter in place (SIP) affect you? • Have you planned for extended closure? • Do you have a personal plan? • Do you have adequate supplies on hand? • Have you identified a reopening team?

  15. Where Do You Fit In? • Risk assessment • You know your environment • You are among the first aware of changes • Education • Conduit of information • Leading by example • Sanity check

  16. Questions

  17. Tulane University Art Kirkland, Director Office of Emergency Management (OEM) bkirklan@tulane.edu, 862-8370 Proceed to Quiz If unable to proceed to quiz, type the link below into your browserhttps://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/ehs/enterssn.cfm?testnum=86

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