Facility Management Tips: Emergency and Disaster Management Assisted by Software Disaster management is something that every facility manager needs to be prepared for. Facility managers need to be prepared for everything from floods to terrorist attacks and labour strikes. Moreover, since the 9/11 attacks, efforts towards disaster management and emergency preparedness has increased significantly. Disaster management or emergency preparedness is typically a group of documented procedures that state how facilities teams need to respond depending on the emergency or disaster. Typically, a plan generally comes with a checklist for responding to particular disasters and emergencies. And this also involves identifying and determining how facility managers will be determining how to use their resources along with establishing training which involves rehearsing and testing these plans.
Prevention and mitigation The first phase in disaster or emergency management is prevention and mitigation. Prevention is generally the action taken to minimize the likelihood of a crisis or an event from occurring. Mitigation refers to the loss of physical asset and life during the course of any event or crisis, particularly the crisis that cannot be prevented. The hazards that the facilities management teams will be looking forward to prevent or mitigate can be more clearly defined by process of risk