Disaster Management Project Class 9 Handwritten

[Channing Rupnick]

Thisdocument is a project report submitted by Akash Rana for his M.Com degree. It includes an introduction to disaster management, types of disasters, and the phases of disaster management. It also provides a case study on the Uttarakhand disaster and conclusions. The document contains certificates, acknowledgments, declarations, and an index listing the topics covered.Read less

Although students may not think about what they would do if disaster strikes, they should. From earthquakes to fires to shootings, this guide provides information on the types of emergencies and disasters everyone should be aware of, as well as how to prepare and respond.

This guide helps students feel empowered, capable, and confident in their abilities to respond quickly and appropriately in the event of an emergency. We take a look at the emergencies most likely to happen while on campus, how students can take basic preparations for those emergencies, and what to expect from their schools. We also spoke to an expert on some key points to remember, and offer a wealth of resources to help make the job of preparing easier.

There are numerous disasters that can befall the United States and other areas of the world. A comprehensive list from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes everything from natural disasters to radiation emergencies to pandemics and bioterrorism. But which ones are most likely to happen?

Natural disasters are those situations in which Mother Nature unleashes some sort of fury: this might be an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, major flood, or another extreme weather event. Sometimes natural disasters come with plenty of warning, such as the case with a hurricane; in other cases, the disaster hits suddenly, such as a tornado that forms within minutes or an earthquake that happens with no warning at all. Being prepared for both scenarios can help ensure your safety and ability to recover.

These are events that trigger contingency plans, such as the campus abruptly closing, a campus-wide lockdown, or even an evacuation that occurs suddenly, potentially leaving no opportunity to go back to a dorm room or retrieve items that you might like to have.

An emergency plan created well before disaster strikes is the best way to battle against worry and fear. Though the details of your emergency plan may change depending upon whether you are at school or at home, keep in mind that this advice can be adapted easily to wherever you might be.

Now take a look at what the school is doing to protect students, faculty, and staff in the event of a disaster. Is there a plan in place for how to shelter in place, evacuate, and handle the aftermath of the situation?

No matter what kind of plan a school has in place, remember that when a crisis does happen, you are responsible for your own personal safety. Therefore, preparing your own plan of action for an emergency is a must.

In a true emergency, you might need to help others. Now is a great time to take a CPR class, learn basic first aid (or even go advanced!) and possibly join a CERT team. With these skills, you just might save a life.

While schools do a great job of protecting students, they often work on lean staffing models and budgets. This can lead to holes in the emergency preparedness and security side of safety. Most college police departments run short staffed and with minimal officers on duty. On top of this many colleges do not have a full time emergency management staff member for proactive threat monitoring.

Some must haves include, water (maybe one bottle to get you off campus and to transportation), a fully charged cell phone power pack (the good ones that can recharge your whole battery), and cash for transportation or other quick needs on the move.

Finally, it is always beneficial to practice like you play. Students can contact their local emergency management agency at the county or the local hospital to see if they can be a role player in a disaster exercise. This can provide real world experience in a low stress environment.

If students participate in a CERT team that will be the best experience in connecting with the community for emergency issues; also volunteering with the local emergency management agency or the school police department. If the school has a student veterans association they can also be a great resource as many of them have had to build similar kits in the military.

When you are prepared the panic and fear will be minimized. However the frustration will be dependent on the personality of the person involved. For example, this current pandemic leads to the Type A people getting upset with those roaming around the stores buying non-essential items, thereby possibly extending the stay at home orders and leading to an even more extended disaster which leads to further anxiety and the cycle goes on.

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide this regularly-updated website for those who need information on being ready for any eventuality.

Community Emergency Response Team. Also known as CERT, these local teams are trained to help others in the event of disasters. This website offers a wealth of information, including training materials.

Know Your Alerts and Warnings. This PDF is a solid resource for figuring out the meaning of certain alerts, warning tones, and more signals that might be sent out in the event of emergency.

On that Nov. 9, project officials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs were locked in a 7-hour meeting with executives from Kiewit-Turner, the construction team tapped to build a hospital in Aurora for the agency.

When KT joined the project more than a year earlier, the estimated cost to build it was $582.8 million, with the goal of finishing the medical complex in 2014. But after several months of pre-construction work, KT executives were convinced the figure was too low.

The VA could not hold up its end of the deal and control its designers, who initially operated under a contract that left the construction price blank. It later battled KT in court for 17 months and lost. The agency stonewalled elected officials as costs, delays and questions mounted, and its own investigative staff did nothing.

Even now, there is no agreement on fully funding the new medical campus, which the VA admitted in March could cost a stunning $1.73 billion. The design includes features such as a curved lobby spanning two city blocks, 43 elevators and a vivarium for animal experiments. The cost is five times an initial $328 million estimate and nearly three times the $604 million construction target.

This outcome, however, was far from the minds of KT and VA officials the night they agreed to handwritten terms. They codified their note as Supplemental Agreement 007 and later showcased the project with a slideshow.

In Aurora, the new medical center will feature expanded services such as mammography for a growing number of women veterans, roomier clinics, private hospital rooms and abundant parking. It is designed to serve about 400,000 veterans living in Colorado and neighboring states.

In 1995, with the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center scheduled to close, the VA had a chance to claim its hospital and land at the site. But a top department official quashed that idea, recommending against spending an estimated $30 million for moving and renovation costs.

But support for the shared facility began to fall apart after the American Legion voiced its opposition. The powerful veterans group worried that vets would not receive the treatment they deserved if it were in a shared facility. The Colorado delegation, which had backed the idea of joint space, eventually fell in line for a separate VA campus.

The whole idea of IDC was to bring the contractor aboard early to assist the designer and accelerate construction. Yet in Aurora, the designers had been working sporadically for four years when KT was hired in 2010 to provide pre-construction advice.

Most of the buildings have rooftop solar panels that supply energy to the complex. Several have south-facing solar water-collection systems that heat water for use in the hospital. These expenses are included in the building costs.

This building provides utilities for the complex. In addition to chillers, boilers and cooling towers, it has emergency systems designed to keep the hospital operating for several days in the event of a disaster.

There are 148 inpatient rooms in the two buildings, including 28 in the intensive care unit, 30 for mental health patients and 30 for spinal-cord injury patients. Each room has a window. A bridge allows easy transfer of post-op patients to the ICU.

There are three clinic buildings on the site, including Clinic Building South, which is south of the two new ones below. They house dozens of offices for veteran services, such as opthalmology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, renal, cardiovascular, urology and oncology. Administrative offices also are here.

In January 2006,a high-powered coalition of architects and engineers was contracted to develop a blueprint for the facility. Later, work would be suspended twice as the VA changed size and budget estimates.

Two companies led the group on the architectural side: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago and H+L Architecture in Denver. The engineering component was managed by Cator Ruma & Associates in Lakewood and S.A. Miro Inc. in Denver.

In an April 2013 audit, the U.S. Government Accountability Office pointed to the feature as an example of a missed opportunity to cut costs. VA officials told GAO auditors that had the agency brought in contractor KT earlier, the design could have been changed to less expensive straight walls.

Pogany, who was reassigned to another VA position in 2013, said in a statement to The Post that he was referring to my understanding that the design team had one opportunity to design a facility that would meet the true needs of the Veterans in Denver instead of a design that would fit the project budget at that time.

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