ENC 102 WA3
ENGLISH COMPOSITION II
2014OCT ENC-102-OL011
Thomas Edison State College
Written Assignment # 3
Submitted: October 18, 2014
Mentor: Miriam Redcay
Assignment: Success factors to emergency response.
Success factors to emergency response
As a Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness student the topic to my research proposal is the importance of an after action review to increase the success factors to an emergency response and incident recovery. Every emergency raises many questions of why and how the event occurs; these questions are crucial to understanding and determine the appropriate responses to future incidents.
There is a lack of well-designed method for an after action review process following an emergency. The implementation of an after action review following an emergency can be utilized as parts of a best practice framework. This best practice can play a key role in minimizing response time and avoid common mistakes. A well develop process have to take into account the full timeline of events that includes factors like jurisdictions, chain of command different types of communications and human error. A good after-action review can be used to improve the action plans to an emergency response and identify trained individuals who can coordinate different activities.
Applying hard lessons learned to disaster management just makes sense, with a specific focus, to an emergency and conducting, and after-action review can be a stepping stone to future planning and prevention. There are several things good after action review most take into account:
1) What can be learnt from the incident?
2) What mistakes were made and how to avoid them?
3) What is not working?
4) What's working?
5) Do responders have the training?
These questions and many others, are aim to examine every aspect of the incident. Based on the answer provided by the
2014OCT ENC-102-OL011
Thomas Edison State College
Written Assignment # 3
Submitted: October 18, 2014
Mentor: Miriam Redcay
Assignment: Success factors to emergency response.
Success factors to emergency response
As a Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness student the topic to my research proposal is the importance of an after action review to increase the success factors to an emergency response and incident recovery. Every emergency raises many questions of why and how the event occurs; these questions are crucial to understanding and determine the appropriate responses to future incidents.
There is a lack of well-designed method for an after action review process following an emergency. The implementation of an after action review following an emergency can be utilized as parts of a best practice framework. This best practice can play a key role in minimizing response time and avoid common mistakes. A well develop process have to take into account the full timeline of events that includes factors like jurisdictions, chain of command different types of communications and human error. A good after-action review can be used to improve the action plans to an emergency response and identify trained individuals who can coordinate different activities.
Applying hard lessons learned to disaster management just makes sense, with a specific focus, to an emergency and conducting, and after-action review can be a stepping stone to future planning and prevention. There are several things good after action review most take into account:
1) What can be learnt from the incident?
2) What mistakes were made and how to avoid them?
3) What is not working?
4) What's working?
5) Do responders have the training?
These questions and many others, are aim to examine every aspect of the incident. Based on the answer provided by the