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Disaster Lies in Your Future—Are You Ready?
Author(s) -
Brown Randy
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.1998.tb02105.x
Subject(s) - preparedness , emergency management , hazard , vulnerability (computing) , disaster preparedness , vulnerability assessment , risk analysis (engineering) , hazard analysis , computer security , environmental planning , business , computer science , engineering , political science , environmental science , medicine , reliability engineering , nursing , chemistry , organic chemistry , psychological intervention , law
This article discusses disaster preparedness for a utility and lists four phases of emergency management: mitigation; preparedness; response; and, recovery. The article states that it is necessary to perform a hazard summary for the water system, then a vulnerability assessment for each segment of the water system, and finally, each hazard needs to be applied to each segment of the system. It discusses how to develop an emergency preparedness manual.