Running Head: Youth Involvement in Disaster Akeyo‚ S. 1 The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Youth Involvement in Disaster Management Presentation Paper for the Youth Session at The 5th Annual Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management At the Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego Bay‚ Jamaica By Stephen O. Akeyo‚ MA‚ MSA‚ Ph.D. Student Indiana University‚ Indiana- USA December 9‚ 2010. Running Head: Youth Involvement in Disaster Outline
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Describe the requirements for a health and safe workplace in terms of the physical environment and the equipment at a selected work organisation. Physical Environment. .Potential for falling objects – The employer or employee must make sure that all items of equipment‚ materials and tools that are not in use must be stored/stacked correctly and securely. Otherwise‚ there is a potential that the item/item may fall and injure a person. .Sharp edges and trailing leads – Sharp edges
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The Japanese occupation towards the Malay rite The Japanese invasion took place in 1942 and the occupation lasted until 1945. The whole of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore were captured by this Japanese in the middle of February 1942. Due to possible reason Japanese easily occupied Malaysia. Mainly‚ British were unprepared to face Japanese attack from south Singapore as that was where the British administration center. Also Japanese started to attacked from north (Kelantan) and take over Malaya
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Disaster management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies‚ in particular preparedness‚ response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. The need to address disaster management Disasters are defined as a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society. They involve widespread human‚ material‚ economic or environmental impacts‚ which exceed the ability of
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References: C.W. Johnson (2005). Emergency Planning After Hurricane Katrina: Using Task Analysis with Observational Studies to Simulate Hospital Evacuations. Retrieved July 8‚ 2006‚ from http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/Katrina.PDF Makola M. Abdullah‚ Shealy C. Gross‚ Terri R. Norton
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Mumbai for helping in designing the format of the document and providing lots of technical inputs from time-to-time. The Disaster Management Institute‚ Bhopal also deserves special recognition for providing inputs related to On-Site and Off-Site emergency plans. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the representatives of the other central ministries and departments concerned‚ regulatory agencies‚ R&D organisations‚ professionals from scientific and technical institutes/academics‚ technocrats
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they perform procedures on many patients for all different types of reasons. And the services that are specifically provided by a hospital or a Clinic would include: Emergency care‚ Maternity‚ Nursing‚ Surgery‚ pharmacy‚ and other specialties. “Most hospitals provide emergency care for traumas and other serious conditions. Emergency room staffs are prepared to provide triage and stabilize patients until they can be moved to a room or treated and released‚” (Ray‚ 2009). The maternity Ward is where
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Pacific Ocean. Berkeley is approximately 152 feet above sea level. Infrastructure The infrastructure of Berkeley is consistent with that of any major city within the continental United States. It has extensive communications‚ transportation‚ and emergency response facilities provided by both the state and federal governments. LPHG is located on a small eight-acre campus that consists of two buildings (the Rink and the Alley)‚ a parking lot‚ and a small outdoor memorial observatory. People/Stake
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Disaster in Franklin County SZT Task 1 Western Governor’s University Tornados and their aftermath are a frequent occurrence in the part of the United States in which I live‚ the Midwest region of the United States. Having participated in training drills‚ exercises‚ and real-life events in my own county‚ this simulation brought to mind many of the requirements for effective disaster management I have learned through Incident Command Systems training (ICS). Federal standards are
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in Perth. I’m still preparing it now but a central point will be the need for public agencies to ‘make space for community’‚ or more accurately civil society‚ if a philosophy of sharing responsibility is really going to underpin the way we ‘do’ emergency management. This implies that significant change may lie ahead in the way that public agencies do some of their core business. As Andrew Wilson (Manager Fire Knowledge and Learning‚ Fire Division at the Victorian Department of Sustainability and
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