DISASTER MANAGEMENT
What is Disaster Management:
The actions taken by an
organization in response to unexpected events that are adversely affecting
people or resources and threatening the continued operation of the
organization.”
Disaster/emergency management
is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It involves preparing for
a disaster before it happens, disaster response (e.g. emergency evacuation,
quarantine, mass decontamination, etc.), as well as supporting, and rebuilding
society after natural or human-made disasters have occurred.
DISASTER?
Defination:-
“A
disaster can be defined as any occurrence that cause damage, ecological
disruption, loss of human life, deterioration of health and health services on
a scale, sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the
affected community or area”.
(W.H.O.)
‘Disaster’ is defined as a crisis situation
causing wide spread damage which far exceeds our ability to recover
Types of Disaster :-
Natural
disaster
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural process of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and other geologic processes.
A natural disaster can cause loss of life
or property damage, and
typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which
depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover and also on the infrastructure available.
An adverse event will not rise to the
level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without vulnerable population.
