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Planning is fundamental to
emergency services. An emergency plan can assist effective and efficient use
of resources and provide a strategy that the community needs and
can afford. Community and
municipal emergency departments are often preoccupied with crisis control
and emergency response. A community may not be aware of the potential range
of services and the cost/benefits of delivery.
Community or municipal emergency personnel cannot continually provide all emergency services,
crisis prevention and education. The community that pays the bills must set, monitor
and plan strategic goals.
Municipal Emergency Plans
- What are the community risks, needs, service
capabilities and circumstances?
- What type and level of protection will the community
will pay for?
- Who will provide external or specialist services?
- What goals can serve as performance measures
to aid the assessment of service quality?
- What options exist for delivering the
appropriate service level using available
resources?
- What strategies can ensure goals that meet standards
within prescribed time frames?
- How will emergency plans and their implementation be
monitored, evaluated and revised?
Municipal Emergency Planning
Answering the following questions in depth can provide
an initial assessment of community emergency planning. Then professional
emergency coaching can help a community and its representatives provide efficient and cost-effective emergency services.
- What emergency services currently exist? (Status)
- What emergency services should be available? (Goals)
- How should these services be provided? (Strategy)
- Does the strategy achieve the service goals? (Performance)
| Martyn Carruthers
was a medical technician and served on Royal Navy nuclear
submarines during the Cold War. He was health physics and
safety officer at English and Canadian nuclear power stations, and Radiation
Protection Officer for the Canadian government, where he worked with Public Health
and Emergency Measures organizations. Martyn also founded
Soulwork
Solutions,
a complete system of coaching and mentorship. |
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