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Emergency Planning and Preparedness Practice

Explore challenges and methods for ensuring that the emergency plan created continues to be fit-for-purpose.

  • Duration

    2 weeks
  • Weekly study

    10 hours

Keeping the emergency plan up to date and implemented with stakeholders involvement is paramount. You will learn about the importance of engagement and flexibility in maintaining and reviewing an emergency plan.

Finally you will focus on preparedness in humanitarian responses to disasters to understand the role of planning in the prevention of disasters through reduction in their escalation.

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

Who is the course for?

Anybody with an interest in emergency planning and preparedness. If you’re looking to study the full MSc Emergency Planning Management and Resilience degree, or are working in or planning a career in the emergency planning and preparedness world, this course is for you.

Please note that the staff described in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below may be subject to change.

Who will you learn with?

An Emergency Planner, specialising in crowd safety. Course Director for the MSc degrees in Emergency Management & Resilience, Disaster Management & Resilience, and Crowded Places & Public Safety.

A former London Fire Brigade SEVESO emergency planner, teaching emergency preparedness, the UK Civil Contingencies Act, and public policy and political economy approaches to emergency intervention.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992
  • Location

    Coventry

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