Project’s Objectives and Goals Integrated Emergency Preparedness Solutions Inc. purposes to capitalize on Emergency Preparedness, Management, Execution, and Analyses. Its main objective is to better apply data and research, as well as our specialized skills, to better serve a larger facet of healthcare and emergency response systems.

The objectives and goals set for the project are as follows:

1. To protect individuals, organizations, and society at large from harm

2. Prevent the occurrence of disasters and ascertain that all sensible measures are taken to diminish them

3. Administration and implementation of emergencies that take place

4. Assess prospective emergencies prior to, during, and subsequent to their occurrence

5. Sustain customer service and diminish interruption and disruption of business operations

6. Protect organizational brand, reputation, and image

Actions to Achieve the Goals and Objectives

In order to accomplish the aforementioned goals and objectives, it is key to conduct the following actions:

1. Conduct risk assessment to pinpoint potential emergency scenarios

2. Establish a preparedness policy that is in tandem with the mission and vision of the business

3. Clearly define the roles and responsibilities of personnel and participants

4. Appraise the accessibility and capabilities of resources for stabilization during occurrences

5. Contacting and liaising with emergency services, comprising of police, fire, and emergency medical services (EMS) to ascertain their response times

6. Ascertain if there are any rules and regulations that pertain to emergency preparedness

7. Come up with safeguarding actions for safety of life

8. Cultivate and advance threat-specific and emergency procedures

9. Train personnel to accomplish roles and responsibilities as well as simplify and undertake routine exercises to practice and perfect plan

Roles and Responsibilities of Personnel

The following section delineates the roles and responsibilities of personnel within the business.

1. Executive Leaders

These are personnel that will be accountable for undertaking financial, executive and managerial decisions that support the emergency preparedness and management. These individuals will be the top most ranking individuals within the organization and are tasked with steering IEPS ahead.

Roles and Responsibilities

i. Evaluation, approval and apportionment of finances for operation of the business

ii. Developing long-term courses of action and objectives that are in alignment with the vision of the business

iii. Ensuring stakeholder value before and after an incident through decision-making that supports the entity

iv. Integrating information from all personnel to develop a knowledgeable, up-to-date and comprehensive perspective that is purposed to optimize organizational performance

2. Emergency Management Director

Roles:

i. Cultivating an efficacious emergency program and acting as the main leader in planning, harmonization of operations and liaison with stakeholders to build the emergency programs and projects.

ii. Is culpable for the coordination of all components of the emergency preparedness, management and response system. These constituents are composed of fire and police departments, emergency medical service, public works, helpers, together with groups adding to the management of emergencies.

iii. Acts as the head of workforce in the course of an emergency and brings together all the tasks of government emergency response.

iv. Upholds private sector concerns in the emergency program. Disaster and crisis partners within the private sector vary from companies and industry to civic groups and persons.

Duties and Responsibilities

i. Oversees, coordinates, and maintains the everyday operations of the business

ii. Maintains Integrated Emergency Preparedness Solutions Inc. in an endless state of preparedness

iii. Sustains harmonization with local and state governmental establishments and agencies, businesses and individuals in the course of any kind of emergency.

3. Incident Commander

Roles

i. In charge of the incident or event response team that conducts the emergency response

ii. Consult with the Emergency Management Director in emergency preparedness and management

Responsibilities

i. Liable for the command as well as control of all facets of an emergency circumstance and the instigation of key communication

ii. Designation of personnel prior to the occurrence of incidents and emergencies

iii. Designation of volunteers within the response team during an emergency

iv. Cultivate and develop action plans that take into account specific, measurable objectives and assess their efficiency by monitoring the attainment of these objectives.

4. Public Information Officer

Roles

i. Rendering the appropriate message and communication to the right people and at the right time

Responsibilities

i. Effectively communicate with different stakeholders and target audiences

ii. Collecting, verifying, harmonizing and broadcasting public information

iii. Developing and discharging information regarding the emergency occurrence to the incident workforces, and other suitable agencies and organizations

Emergency Management Specialists
Roles and Responsibilities

i. Gathering and examining information from manifold sources with the main objective of providing mid-term and long-term evaluations, situational awareness and courses to executive leaders for decision making

ii. Shepherding primary threat and hazard identification, making available contextual relevance to such hazards and developing projections of impacts and damages

iii. Cultivating and developing relationships with partners from different establishments and agencies, together with different local, state, and federal agencies with the inclusion of partners from the private sector. This is to enable and simplify the exchange of data and information in the course of emergency operations and practices.

6. Safety Representative

The safety representative is tasked with making certain that IEPS meets all safety requirements in the field during emergency responses and all facilities by managing, coordinating, promoting and training all safety activities. In addition, the safety representative is liable for the safety of equipment procured, stores, and maintained for use by the company.

Roles and Responsibilities

i. Encourages and promotes overall safety policies and processes to be adhered by the company and all employees in agreement with the local, state, and federal OSHA rules and regulations.

ii. Conduct inspections and tests of equipment and processes to ensure preventative measures are undertaken

iii. Maintain all reports and documentation regarding testing and maintenance of safety

iv. Will work in tandem with outside specialists in augmenting safety procedures and processes within IEPS

v. Assess everyday work hazard analyses

7. Recruitment and Training Manager

The recruitment and training manager will play a key part in recruiting, employing and supervising the training of personnel and volunteers within the business.

Roles and Responsibilities

i. Partners with executive leaders to pinpoint stream of internal and external talent and replacements through partnerships with enrollment and direct support to make certain proper fit and continuousness of talent for key roles.

ii. Oversees and monitors personnel training and coaching as required

iii. Aids in resolving employee complaints and concerns

iv. Collaborates with executive leaders to conduct workforce planning

Collaborations

Integrated Emergency Preparedness Solutions Inc. (IEPS) has planned collaborations with other departments, institutions, and also business to facilitate its objective of emergency preparedness, management, implementation, and evaluations. Collaborative endeavors are significant for numerous reasons. Joint determinations can deliver results for partner agencies that might not have been attainable in isolation, as services and programs can be harmonized and resources can be combined (Shoaf et al., 2014).

1. Local Emergency Planning Committees

One of the institutions that the business will collaborate with is the local emergency planning committees. This is imperative for the reason that the committees develop emergency response plans and appraise them at least every year, and offer information regarding the hazards within the community. In addition, such plans involve stakeholder participation and therefore is deemed efficacious.

2. Local Emergency Institutions

Secondly, the organization will collaborate with local emergency institutions including the police, the fire department and emergency medical services (EMS). Disaster preparedness as well as response takes into account the faced-pace deployment of emergency service together with first responders (Galls, 2011). Through this cooperation, the business will be able to undertake the management of everyday emergencies and mass casualty assistance.

3. Public Health Agencies and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Integrated Emergency Preparedness Solutions Inc. will also collaborate with local and state public health departments. This is essential to augment proficiency and human/physical resources to suitably gauge a community’s susceptibility, capacity and promptness for a chemical or biological occurrence, as well as the capability to cultivate a response plan and to make simulations against this plan to develop the readiness of the community. Importantly, these agencies are distinctively placed to accumulate, examine and circulate information pivotal to the public’s health and are essential to sustaining a harmonized reaction to a chemical or biological incident (Smith, 2006).

4. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

These are agencies tasked with supporting the citizens together with establishments such as ours to promote response, recovery and mitigation from all emergencies. Any emergencies or incidents that may necessitate federal or state responses will be dealt with by FEMA and the DHS and therefore we will need to collaborate with these agencies in responding to the emergency.

5. American Red Cross Society

Collaboration with this institution will be necessary as it will aid in emergency assistance and disaster relief. In addition, in the event of major emergencies and incidents, our organization will have to collaborate and work in tandem with this institution as it has several numbers of volunteers that can aid in emergency management and response.…