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Implications for Emergency managers in managing an emergency
Emergency is defined as a condition where the normal functioning pertaining to any aspect,like health, livelihood etc undergoes disruption and immediate action is to be taken for preventing it from further destruction or turning it into a disaster.
Emergency management is coordinated management with the resources and responsibilities for tackling and countering with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery). It aims to reduce the harmful effects of all hazards, including disasters.
Some of the planning strategies and the priorities in Emergency management are :
* Identify and evaluating the the risk
*Response to specific tasks
* Tolerating, treating, transferring and termination
*Resource and reaction control and planning
*Reporting, monitoring and reviewing the risk management strategies