Risk mapping in disaster planning

Disaster planning whether natural or man made is part of a well thought corporate emergency preparedness and risk minimizing program. Unlike in the earlier years when the organizations used to wake up late and learn lessons in the hard way, today’s corporate world and other institutional framework take enough care and precaution to face and challenge the unforeseen disasters that are more common in the recent past.

A well structured and scientifically prepared disaster management program involves complex procedures and steps with meticulous details and precise planning and need to be done with the help of professionals with the support of the entire workforce of the organization. There are numerous literature and manuals on the ways of preparing the plan to meet the inevitable.

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How to prepare an effective Disaster planning?

No plan can be effective if the same is made to work in isolation. Integration of the disaster planning into the soul of the system of any organization is the key to the continuity and the effectiveness of any well-planned emergency preparedness program. The planner therefore has to have a vision that can harness the involvement and the commitment of the entire work force and brain of the institution. If any time the plan gets isolated from the main stream and works in vacuum or operates as separate strategy the success of the whole exercise would be definitely in jeopardy. Any plan integrated into the normal routine procedures of the organization would run and function smoothly without having the feeling that you are doing something special. There lies the success of the plan becoming a layman’s plan or a popular program.

Resources Identification in Disaster Planning

A proper and well-conceived disaster planning is an integral part of the corporate emergency preparedness program. While the disaster planning involves many complex steps and sequences, one of the major areas, that is difficult both to document and also to identify is the resource identification or resource mapping in the disaster planning document. While a broad idea and understanding may be able to explain the concept in a class room like atmosphere, when it comes to identifying the organizations, agencies, or government machineries entrusted with the responsibilities for actual assistance, that can also be well dependent upon during an emergency, it requires a thorough survey and documentation of the resources in order to make the plan effective and fool proof enabling the people to rely on them during the zero hour.

Prioritization in Disaster planning

The Thumb Rule

The objective of a well-prepared disaster planning is to save the entire organization that is both the human and the material resources. Though the disaster planning need to assign priority with regard to the materials, records, equipments, or other inventory of the organization, there cannot be any dispute with regard to the question, what comes first, for the priority of any rescue operation is to save the precious human life at the cost of any other materials. The disaster planning therefore needs to give the first priority for the human safety. You may be well aware in some cases however valuable the materials, machineries equipments or records stored in the building the may be cordoned off from approach to salvage the trapped lives. The disaster planning therefore irrespective of the type of organization or region gives the top most priority to the human life.

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Training for disaster planning & Management

Disaster planning has been accepted as an essential emergency preparedness program by all the institutions, taking cue from the recent disasters the world has witnessed. The complex disaster planning strategy includes discussions, meticulous surveys, prioritizations, mapping of risks and resources, among the various other steps that precedes the preparation of the document.

The need for the training

Disaster planning among other things also includes training of the entire work force of the organizations to meet any unexpected challenges. However efficiently you may prepare the plan, device your strategy,

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