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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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Hurricane Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities. Failure to do so can leave healthcare staff unable to provide adequate care. Evaluate emergency response plans to verify they are flexible and scalable enough to accommodate contingencies. During a hurricane, care-dependent residents are at an elevated risk.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Put another way, risk refers to the fact that an organization’s ambitions may not work out as planned or that its objectives might go unmet. Risk can be affected by numerous external factors, including natural disasters, global pandemics, raw material prices, increased levels of competition, or changes to current government regulations.