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).
HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster Aaron Beam tells all in his novel entitled, “HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster” surrounding the fraud case amounting to $2.8 billion. Beam is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of HealthSouth whereas his partner-in-crime Richard Scrushy, also the co-founder, is the CEO. Beam was reluctant to work for Scrushy since he was not sure if the man was plain brilliant or just plain trouble. Nonetheless, he decided to work with him since he needed the job.
Chastity Jones, an African-American and the defendant in this case, was denied a job offer due to her appearance. Catastrophe Management Solutions, located in Mobile, Alabama, announced that it was seeking candidates with basic computer knowledge to work as customer service representatives. Ms. Jones completed an online employment application, and was selected for an in-person interview at a later date with other applicants. Ms. Jones arrived dressed in a blue business suit with her hair in short dreadlocks. She interviewed with a company representative to discuss the qualifications of the position, then Ms. Jones and other selected applicants were bought into a room with CMS’s human resources manager to be informed they were hired for the
All businesses have to comply with The Health and Safety Executive (UK Government body) and complete Risk Assessments to ensure the safety of their staff and customers. A Risk Assessment looks at a normal day working activities and considers what could go wrong and encourages the employer to look at measures to protect the employee/customer and to have a plan of action should anything go wrong. These assessments are regularly revisited and updated as necessary. As a practice dealing with veterinary medication and equipment that can be hazardous to human health we also need to comply with the following boards; •
What is social vulnerability? The idea of social vulnerability inside the emergency management setting was first presented in the 1970’s when emergency managers first realized that vulnerability also encompasses socioeconomic influences that negatively impact resiliency to disasters or emergencies. Form the perspective of an emergency manager social vulnerability refers to the socioeconomic and demographic factors that impact the resiliency of individuals, groups or communities. It has been well established that not all classes of individuals living within a disaster area are affected by the disaster in the same way.
Care staff have a duty of care to ensure the safety of individuals they support; however, individuals also have a right to make their own choices which can lead to dilemmas. The risk assessment process can be used to support individuals to understand the possible repercussions of their choices and put measures in place to reduce or eliminate these risks this can help individuals and staff to have a positive attitude towards risk taking and to promote their strengths and abilities. This can lead to self-confidence, self-esteem and overall
I always encourage others to reflect on their practice in relation to risk management so they can see what they have learnt from it and how has it benefited the individual. All staff should understand risks and rights to improve the practice of the service and by complying with the company’s policies and procedures at all times. It is also important that I involve the people that I support when completing risk assessments, this helps them to have an understanding of health and safety and how to assess risk, this will also give them some control over their own safety and wellbeing. When writing risk assessments it is important to remember that risk assessments are there to enable people to keep reasonably safe, not to stop the individual from taking part in an
In care settings, there is usually a responsibility of one person to look after another, and therefore by having risk assessments in place, this reduces the risk of harm, injury and allows you to better support those in your care. Risk assessments analyse the risk, the impact this risk would have, and how likely this risk is to occur. Based off of this, the care worker can decide what must be put in place to ensure this person’s safety, and ensure that they feel happy, safe and supported and in the least restrictive way
Homework 7 Gaven D. Crosby Pennsylvania College of Technology Homework 7 This paper will discuss the way that the Mississippi River, and the New Deal have affected emergency management. The Mississippi River is a river that floods quite often, almost every year. The lower portion floods more than the upper portions, and affects more people. This is due to the terrain of the areas surrounding the lower Mississippi.
The choices they make could lead to them having an accident or getting harmed. By doing a risk assessing hazards can be identified and measures put in place so that the choices can be met in the safest way possible. Q 16b Explain why risk assessments need to be regularly reviewed. It is important to review risk assessments regularly as change can happen and what measures were once seen as safe might not be anymore. All changes should be recorded straightaway and not on a set date.
In this period communities plan and prepare for disastrous events. Participants include government officials, psychologists, community leaders, municipal planners and individuals who would be impacted by a disaster. Many disasters vary in the amount of warning communities receive to prepare before the disaster occurs. As an example, a hurricane usually arrives within days
A risk assessment is where we look at all the risks and try to find a way of overcoming or try to reduce the risks, as well as looking at the risks that is involved with many of the activities that the residents are able to do, then what can be done and put in place then to reduce the risks so they can take part in the activity risk and harm reduced, because they always have the right to be included in activities that they want to participate in. Therefor if an individual wants to do something independently, for example, make themselves a cup of tea, then a risk assessment will need to be completed to minimize the risk of that individual burning themselves or other residents, such as cap the temperature of the hot water, instead of taking their independence away from them and for us to do it for
Of particular relevance is the need to assess whether products, processes, situations and activities could increase the risk of significant health consequences for human populations. The department of health in Western Australia has endorsed the use of health risk assessments of potential impacts to health during the planning stages of new developments and to evaluate activities where potential risks to health are being considered (Henrici, 2005). The processes outlined in this document provide a more specific characterization of potential risks to the public than currently available and being developed to assist proponents and others required to undertake formal impact assessments for new developments. These processes may also be useful for other forms of assessments where risks to the public are being considered. Users are also referred to the following publications when undertaking risk assessments for health: health risk assessment in Western Australia (department of health) environmental health risk assessment: guidelines for assessing human health risks from environmental hazards (ehealth council, department of health and aging).
Allender, Rector & Warner (2013) expounded disaster preparedness which involves a greater responsibility to the public by sharing timely and relevant information which may be utilized in disaster response; moreover, a responsibility as an advocate to stay safe and healthy in times of
There are linkages between social deficits and vulnerabilities in support of strong indications between high social vulnerability traits and low community resiliency traits. This relationship should include consideration of systematic design and management of policies and procedure processes including resiliency planning to decrease disaster vulnerability while increasing resiliency during the process (Bergstrand, Mayer, Brumback, & Zhang, 2015). Consequently, the further established vulnerability planning and risk assessments, the more of a comprehensive span of resiliency preparedness
