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Assignment - Surveillance and Disaster Planning
Report - Disaster Plan (Length: 1,500 words).
Rapid and planned response to a disaster scenario is critical for many public health professionals. This task provides students with a hypothetical scenario to which they have to respond quickly and thoughtfully to ensure the best health outcomes for those concerned. Task Students will be randomly allocated to one of several pre-written disaster scenarios and asked to complete a disaster response plan. Students will be provided their disaster scenario in Week 3 of the semester to allow for sufficient time to design a disaster response plan. The plan must cover all the relevant elements described in the unit and be an appropriate response for the disaster scenario.
A comprehensive disaster management plan should:
Provide a critical analysis of the disaster event.
Identify all relevant stakeholders with a detailed description of their role within the disaster management plan.
Provide for appropriate management of resources.
Consider factors that may impact the disaster response plan including, but not limited to, vulnerable groups, animal welfare and environmental factors.
Provide a plan for managing the psychological stressors of a disaster event for those affected, including any response personnel.
Provide strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of the disaster management plan following the disaster event.
Provide evidence from scholarly resources to support all areas of the disaster response plan to ensure response strategy is in accordance with best practice approaches.
Criteria - Your assignment will be assessed on the following:
- Critical analysis of the disaster scenario
- Content of the response plan
- Appropriateness of the response
- Depth of content
- Writing and formatting of the response plan
- Referencing
Scenario 10: Terrorist Siege
This is a HYPOTHETICAL Scenario.
You are required to prepare a Response Plan to the scenario below. The response plan should include: relevant stakeholders in the response, logistics, special considerations as a result of the scenario context (season, location etc), challenges, likely outcomes, conclusions and recommendations for the future.
Scene: It is a busy Sydney January morning and crowds are hurrying to work in the Sydney CBD. The days have been unusually hot.
The Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney is holding an exhibition of fine art and precious paintings. The Gallery has arranged for a special viewing of the paintings by groups of older people today. The groups will start arriving at 10am and will arrive every 20 minutes to start their tour. In total about 30 people are on each bus.
The first two buses arrive at 10am and 10.20am. At 10.25am a suspicious person enters the art gallery. He is carrying a backpack and wears a thick jacket. He moves into the gallery with the last of the second group of people. Once inside the gallery itself he produces a weapon and huddles the older people and gallery staff into a corner of the exhibition room. He says he will kill everyone if his demands are not met.
Role: You are the Commissioner of Police and have been notified that a siege is taking place in the Art Gallery of NSW. You are told there are a number of older people in the Gallery. What would your response plan be given the situation and the context of the event?
Note - Needs to be written in a report format which includes an executive summary, table of contents, APA style referencing.