What are the Four Phases of a “Natural Disaster”? – Explained!
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Disaster recovery and Business Continuity has often been overlooked and sometimes even ignored. Managers could have been excused for thinking 'it won't happen here'. However, the series of recent tragic events have made businesses sit up and consider how and what they could do in the event of a disaster to protect their staff, customers and properties, brand, reputations, business and more appropriately their existence.
Most businesses depend heavily on technology and automated systems, which if disrupted, even for a few days, could cause severe financial loss and threaten survival. The continued operations of an organization depend on management awareness of potential disasters, their ability to develop a plan to minimize disruptions of critical functions and the capability to recover operations expediently and successfully.
A disaster can be defined as an occurrence causing widespread destruction and distress. Disaster management does not avert or eliminate the threats; instead, it focuses on creating plans to decrease the effect of disasters. Failure to create a plan could lead to damage to assets, human mortality, and lost revenue. Events covered by disaster management include acts of terrorism, fire, human caused disaster (like electrical fire, structural issues, industrial sabotage), natural disasters (like earthquakes, hurricanes, Tsunami, flood etc.), public disorder, and communication failures.
In order to avoid, or reduce significant losses to a business houses, emergency managers (preferably facility managers) should work to identify and anticipate potential risks, hopefully to reduce their probability of occurring. In the event that an emergency does occur, managers should have a plan prepared to mitigate the effects of that emergency, as well as to ensure Business Continuity of critical operations post-incident. It is essential for an organization to include procedures for determining whether an emergency situation has occurred and at what point an emergency management plan should be activated.
Most businesses depend heavily on technology and automated systems, which if disrupted, even for a few days, could cause severe financial loss and threaten survival. The continued operations of an organization depend on management awareness of potential disasters, their ability to develop a plan to minimize disruptions of critical functions and the capability to recover operations expediently and successfully.
A disaster can be defined as an occurrence causing widespread destruction and distress. Disaster management does not avert or eliminate the threats; instead, it focuses on creating plans to decrease the effect of disasters. Failure to create a plan could lead to damage to assets, human mortality, and lost revenue. Events covered by disaster management include acts of terrorism, fire, human caused disaster (like electrical fire, structural issues, industrial sabotage), natural disasters (like earthquakes, hurricanes, Tsunami, flood etc.), public disorder, and communication failures.
In order to avoid, or reduce significant losses to a business houses, emergency managers (preferably facility managers) should work to identify and anticipate potential risks, hopefully to reduce their probability of occurring. In the event that an emergency does occur, managers should have a plan prepared to mitigate the effects of that emergency, as well as to ensure Business Continuity of critical operations post-incident. It is essential for an organization to include procedures for determining whether an emergency situation has occurred and at what point an emergency management plan should be activated.
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The four phases of disaster are as follows:--
1) Migration phase
2) recovery phase
3) response phase
4) preparedness phase
1) Migration phase
2) recovery phase
3) response phase
4) preparedness phase
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