Course: Emergency Management: Risk, Incidents and Leadership

In this section you will review the stages that emergency incidents transition through prior to their resolution. Watch the video, in which Paul Amos describes the emergency timeline. All emergency …

We will now explore an example of an ICS, the US National Incident Management System (NIMS). NIMS could be summarised as: The common, interoperable approach to sharing resources, coordinating and …

We have seen how risk is assessed but how do we manage risk when an incident occurs? In this section you will analyse the requirements of an incident command system …

So how do we assess risk? We have seen that the risk environment within which emergency managers operate is subject to societal pressures that can take the form of legal …

You have seen how the expectations to reduce risk have changed over time. You will now explore some of the processes that have been developed to try mitigate these risks. …

Over the past 40 years we have seen society’s attitude to risk change and many now expect it to be reduced or even eliminated. This is reflected in media interest, …

The way that society perceives risk has an impact on the way emergency incidents are managed. In this section you will see how this has changed over time and what …

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