Assignment:
You are a volunteer member of your local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). You are preparing for your first full-scale exercise. As part of your preparation for the exercise, the CERT coordinator told you that you will lead the exercise. The result is that you must complete a white paper plan for the exercises. The paper will contain the main concepts of crisis management that will be explained through the theories of crisis management.
Guidelines:
Answer the following in 2 to 4 pages:
Define and describe the following crisis management and emergency management concepts and terms:
- Crisis management
- Emergency management
- Homeland security
- Business continuity
- Contingency planning
- Management crisis planning
- Preparedness
- Mitigation
- Response
- Recovery
- First responders
The definitions of the above terms must be written in your own words.
Provide and briefly describe 1 example for each term.
Be sure to reference all of your sources using APA style.