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When Policy is the Emergency Management Threat
Emergency Managers across the U.S. are doing their jobs: Planning for Consequence Management
The public has challenges recognizing that Emergency Management is a full-time job — it is not the same as emergency response. When disasters strike, the greatest folks who show up to help are trained responders. They follow plans, are organized into teams, use specialized equipment, and go through voluminous amounts of training and exercising. Emergency Management is done in advance of that — and any other — incident or disaster.
Emergency Management is the totality of planning and response — the before, during and after — in what we call a disaster cycle:
If you think about Organizational Management as steady-state, day-to-day management of the operations of any organization, Emergency Management is how that same organization operates when a crisis occurs.
What seems like never-ending policy changes from the White House adversely impacting Emergency Management have been coming at us like moths to the porch light. Here’s what we have recently noticed:
Federal Government Organizations
The interagency cooperation — full disaster cycle — may have FEMA at the tip of the spear, but it is…
