Terrorist attacks on Hospital:
Risk and Emergency Assessment, Tools & Systems
EMP
Definition
The emergency management plan, EMP, is the creation of plan through which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters
Objectives
EMP aims to estimate the risks of disasters, prepare activities which mitigate the consequences of predictable hazards, protect populations and property, and reconstruct the damaged places caused by disasters (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societiescl). According to Emergency Management Framework of Canada, the management of emergencies concerns all hazards and risk management measures which can reduce the vulnerability to hazards.
Classification
According to the place of the emergency, the EMP can be classfied into
- Internal EMP
- Exernal EMP
Internal EMP (of hospital) is the EMP which tries to deal with the emergency situations inside the hospital.
External EMP (of hospital) is the EMP which try to deal with the emergency situations outside the hospital.
The following documents present EMP of a general hospital