Disaster Management – Key Trends and Policies

ABSTRACT : Disaster management is the bailiwick of dealing with and circumventing the risk. It involves those precautions and safety measures (e.g. mass decontamination, convalescence, quarantine, emergency evacuation as well as supporting and rebuilding of society) that are took after occurring of a disaster event.In general, emergency management is an uninterrupted and continuous efforts of individual department, groups and local communities to manage and ameliorate the hazardous impacts resulting by disaster. The process of emergency management phases involves into mitigation, preparedness, recovery and response. Action taken depends upon the perception of risk that is going to expose. Disaster management plans and strategies relies on activities on which government and non-government bodies are involved. As the activities at each level affect the whole community at all levels. It is common to place the responsibility for governmental emergency management with the institutions for civil defense or within the conventional structure of the emergency services. In the private sector, emergency management is sometimes referred to as business continuity planning. In this paper current policies and strategies of government for different disaster has been revised and highlight the flaws lies in polices and strategies to handle the situations occurred after eruption of disaster. After overviewing the current disaster management system some response and preparedness are presents for guiding the government to revise his policies and safety measures for various departments which are directly responsible to do needful activities and rehabilitation work to mitigate the effects of disaster.