The disaster of hurricane Katrina identified so many flaws in FEMA. Some of these flaws were due to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 deviated a lot of money from FEMA and weakened its ability to respond adequately to the disaster of Katrina. As you stated this bought on many changes to FEMA, which were now being addressed under the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (PKEMRA).
High winds along with high profile vehicles were a recipe for disaster Tuesday morning in the Antelope Valley. At about 10:15 a.m. all exits to Mojave from State Route 58 were closed to all traffic. Just after 10:30 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol, all northbound State Route 14 lanes from West Avenue D, between Lancaster and Rosamond were closed as gusts of nearly 80 miles per hour wreaked havoc causing several big rigs to topple over. Fire officials said Tuesday morning that a total of 14 were overturned south of Mojave and four overturned big rigs on State Route 58 and State Route 14.
Repairers of the Breach is a nonprofit organization that seeks to provide a daytime refuge and resource center for homeless adults. The organization does not typically provide a place for people to sleep; its objective is to ensure that people will have conditions established to leave the homeless life and be able to keep going without the organization’s help. The organization offers health and educational programs in order to achieve these goals; however, they do not have an effective system to collect information about people who go there, and about the activities that are most frequented, and most efficient in helping people. According to this situation, the organization would like to better document use of the services they provide and
Operation Nucflash On the Seahawk helicopter sat Cliff Stewart and the three other men of the Navy’s Special Operation team tasked with disarming dangerous explosives. They were returning from a successful mission and had just touched down on the deck of the USS Patriot when Cliff, the team 's leader received a call. “Lieutenant Stewart,” said a clipped voice, “this is Captain Wilson, Admiral Davidson’s chief of staff.” Cliff was suddenly alert, “Yes, sir.” “The admiral wants to see you in the war room, immediately.”
The 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) (TSC) promoted one of its own today. It was a true honor to be a part of Athena Oliver’s promotion from chief warrant officer three (CW3) to the rank of CW4. The Army has a unique esprit de corps, as we work, train, and fight beside each other in the tireless effort to protect the American people and preserve our way of life. Through war and peace, the Army is a professional organization—a Family. Warrant officers are highly skilled, single-track specialty officers, the ranks CW2 through CW5, are commissioned by the President of the United States and take the same oath as regular commissioned officers (O 1 to O 10).
The importance of the practice or rehearsals conducted by the crisis team helps staff consider the kind of questions that might arise proactively and resolve them as a team. Effective crisis preparedness plans must include staff training that focuses on both planning and team procedures. This practice is important because it allows the team to make distinctions quickly and efficiently between the kinds of events that could affect an entire school community. This training is also important because it allows the team to build a partnership among the participants, so each member knows what job or jobs they are responsible for assuming during a crisis without having to be told each step to complete. These rehearsal drills must involve hypothetical
After investing the stage collapse, the engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti found that the cause of the accident was due to poor construction. A poor emergency response to the weather threat is what caused the death and injuries of the Sugarland concert goers (13 WTHR.com, 2012). They found that if the stage had been up to code it would have withstood winds greater than 60-70 miles per hour. Witt Associates found that the disaster plan did not work due to the lack of disaster preparation and emergency response, and a bad chain of command greatly added to the problem.
The National Recovery Administration was a big part of the National Industrial Recovery Act. This allowed the President to put into effect industry-wide codes that should eliminate unfair trade practices, reduce unemployment, establish minimum wages and maximum hours, and guarantee the right of labour to bargain collectively in all fields of industry. The agency had 557 basic codes along with 208 supplementary codes that affect 22 million workers. The industries that subscribed to the NRA could display a blue eagle symbol showing their cooperativeness as you see in the picture to the left.
Saturday night parties are what most high school teenagers look forward to when bringing on the weekend. Drinking, smoking weed, and fighting are “fun” to these young adults, right? Recovery Road is the story of Madeline, who is not only recovering from heavy drinking problems, but partying and anger issues as well. This is a story that I got pulled into more than I had expected to. I enjoyed it, because I was able to sympathize with the characters struggles throughout the book, watch the young adults be peer pressured, and lastly, I got to watch Madeline overcome her terrible addictions.
- Seize and control the airports and ports from Casablanca to Tunisia. - To convince the French and Spanish key military leaders’ to support the operation TORCH. - To destroy the enemy supply system. 7. b. - Combat support from Italy and Sicily (CV) – the Allies control of the airports and ports from Casablanca to Tunisia will help to mitigate the combat support for the Axis operations from the operational bases in Italy and Sicily.
In an industrial context, the failure to understand the load of a power system could result in a blackout or a power surge, both with detrimental effects to the surrounding community. Effective communication is a virtue that can influence the success of a project, a company, or the collective society. Engineers who are specialized in technical roles are consulted for their unchallenged knowledge. However, without effective communication, it is meaningless for these engineers to hold such knowledge because it cannot be shared and implemented with others. For example, Roger Boisjoly’s inability to effectively communicate his safety concerns to Thiokol managers prior to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger resulted in the deaths of seven crew members.
With 15 million people out of work, most people want to just give up. This article examines how resiliency can separate you from the competition to gain greater employability. In this financial crisis, most people are easily discouraged. According to the Census Bureau, only 55.3% of people between 16 and 29 were employed in 2010, on average (that's a significant drop from 67.3% in 2000). For a historical perspective, unemployment for this age group was the highest since World War II.
Additional, they were lack of communicate and lack of understandable roles. They were lack of control environment that they did not assign a good duty of segregate for each level. The company just focus on solving extreme high risk problem and ignored the expert advices, demonstrated by Tony Hayward. When the disaster appeared, the board is lack of oversee in operation, had a slow reaction on solving. This failure is resulted in inconsistent of organizational culture.
It is clear failure where creativity and initiatives are required; where the environment is dynamic and most importantly the individuals working there strive for higher order needs of
The most common of such faults should recognize the existence of a large number of management levels, where information while passing from level to level is lost or distorted. Another drawback is the lack of stable horizontal linkages between departments. Another drawback is the presence of conflicts between different groups and units. Conflicts often inherent in the structure of the organization. Units or individual managers, are in conflict, not only can promote the rupture of communication links within the organization, but to use a communication network to achieve its goals in the fight with other units or leaders.
