Disaster Management

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Disaster Management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. EGSS is associated with central, state and several corporate projects related to preparedness, response and recovery of disasters.

If you see a potential disaster circling you, EGSS can serve as your trusted preparedness and recovery partner. With a demonstrated track record of results—and unmatched expertise that helped to guide our clients for disaster preparedness, response and recovery compliance.

Our services are fabricated as per

• Disaster Management Act, 2005

• National Policy on Disaster Management, 2009

• Suggested structure for DMP by NDMA (Apr, 2015)

• Emergency Action Plan  as per CWC guidelines

• SOP for sudden release of water.

• NBC 2016 and Building By-laws

• State regulations

• NFPA
  

• Manufacturing, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals,1989 as amended (MSIHC)

Our disaster management professionals also coordinate  ahead of time to ensure you’ve taken all necessary steps to create a safe work environment. We are a multi-disciplined and well-rounded company suitable for many different industries, situations, and projects.

Under disaster management, We provide various services:

Disaster means a catastrophe, mishap, calamity or a grave occurrence in any area, arising from natural or man-made causes, or by accident or negligence which results in substantial loss of life or human suffering or damage to, or destruction of, property, or damage to, or degradation of environment, and is of such nature or magnitude as   to be beyond the coping capacity of the community of the affected area.

Our aim  is to assist our clients in preventing disasters from becoming catastrophes -- events that result in great destruction or irreplaceable loss. Disaster management plans are all about planning ahead. We think about what could go wrong in a disaster and develop protocols to address those issues.

The purpose of disaster management plan is to establish a system / plan necessary for proactive and effective management of an accident/ incident/ emergencies leading to any disaster and to minimize losses to people and property. The disaster management plan is intended to provide guidance to all concerned with a general concept of potential emergency assignments before, during and following emergency situations

EMERGENCY --> DISASTER  --> CATASTROPHE

An emergency is an unforeseen incidence that can be responded to, using available resources. However, an emergency which cannot be controlled with the available resources, becomes a disaster. It endangers the life, property and environment at a larger scale. Disaster calls for outside resources and assistances.

An emergency management system includes activities to prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate future potential harm. The planning should comply with the strategy of national interest.

Our mission is to enhance the preparedness and resiliency  by coordinating and integrating activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural or man-made disasters.”

EGSS serves clients with a package of emergency management comprised of:

• Response plan

Preparation of Emergency specific response plan as per the national and international rules and standards. Plan that entails emergency and roles & responsibilities of the team.

• Mock Drills

Facilitation of mock drill based on different types of emergencies and their causes.

• Medical Aid

Providing medical aid like first aiders and ambulance to our clients in case of any casualties during emergency situations.

• Emergency Operation Center

Establishing and setting up of complete emergency operation center and command center for managing the emergency situations. Starting from Communication  set up to arranging emergency kit.

• Training and Awareness

Preparing manpower as per the response plan to mitigate, respond and recover from any type of emergency situation.

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Purpose of emergency response plan is to:

• Define and assess potential emergencies including risks.
  

• Control and contain incidents.

• Safeguard employees and people in vicinity.

• Minimize damage to property or / and the environment.

• Inform authorities and mutual aid centers to come up for help

• Secure the safe rehabilitation of affected areas and to restore normalcy

• Prepare the stakeholders to respond confidently in emergency situations.

We, at EGSS can prepare requirement specific response plan for our clients. Our response plan cover both OFFSITE & ONSITE emergency impacts.

ONSITE:  An accident/incident that takes place in a factory, its effects are confined to the factory premises, involving only the persons working in the factory and the property inside the factory.

OFFSITE:  An accident is such that its affects inside the factory are uncontrollable and it may spread outside the factory premises,

How do we prepare an Emergency Response plan for you:

HRVA is the foundation of any emergency response plan. Understanding hazards, vulnerabilities and risks help the clients to establish priorities. We need to prepare emergency plans to reflect the assessment of the relative risk of occurrence, and the potential impact, of emergencies or disasters on people and property.

HAZARD= Potentially damaging physical event

VULNERABILITY = Susceptibility of the community to the impact of the hazard, based on the physical, social, economical and environmental factors

RISK= Probability of harmful consequences or expected loss

RISK ASSESSMENT = T0 determine the nature and extent of risk

When conducting an HRVA, it is important to not only consider the hazard, but its frequency or likelihood and its consequence. Even though a hazard may be highly likely to occur, its consequences may be minimal. Similarly, a hazard event that is unlikely to occur may have severe consequences. To fully assess the consequences of a hazard event, significant consideration of the various vulnerabilities is required

The objective of undertaking a HRVA is primarily to anticipate the potential problems and possible solutions to help to save lives, protect property, assets, reduce damage and facilitate a speedy recovery.

It is worthwhile to mention that HRVA is a means towards becoming disaster resilient and is not an end in itself. HRVA is a critical part of the disaster risk reduction program and it has the potential to help the necessary authorities to prepare for emergencies.

EGSS  provides HRVA that helps  the policy makers, administrators and the community to make risk based choices to address vulnerabilities, mitigate hazards, and prepare for response to and recovery from hazard events.

Apart from the central government, the state governments, district authorities and even the local level governance institutions (like municipalities and village panchayats) can undertake hazard risk and vulnerability analysis based on their respective locations vis-à-vis hazards.

Incident Response System is an Indian version of Incident Command/Management System adopted by NDMA. This system and terminologies are used worldwide to address and manage emergencies at a global level.

This System is a standardized approach to the command, control, and coordination of emergency response providing a common hierarchy within which responders from multiple agencies can be effective.

An effective mechanism for reducing ad-hoc measures in response. Aligned with International Protocols and Terminologies in managing emergency response. A composite team with various Sections to attend to all the possible response requirements. The IRS designates officers to perform various duties and get them trained in their respective roles.

It also emphasizes the need for proper documentation of various activities for better planning, accountability and analysis. This will greatly help in reducing chaos and confusion during the response phase. Everyone will know what needs to be done, who will do it and who is in command.

EGSS prepares ICS/IRS/IMS based on the national and international codes and standards like NFPA, NDMA, NBC.

This System is a standardized approach to the command, control, and coordination of emergency response providing a common hierarchy within which responders from multiple agencies can be effective. We determine and define the teams and their members, respective roles and responsibilities and equipment required to perform their duties.

All IRS teams come together to manage emergency response effectively benefitting the international level coordination during the time of emergencies. A perfect example can be seen of Covid-19 pandemic, when India gave and took help to/from different nations.

A team of skilled manpower with expertise in managing emergencies on the site. Rapid task force is a part of Incident command system.

We set up a Rapid task Force for our clients to fight against all type of emergencies. The team is composed of sub-groups:

• Fighters

• Rescuers

• Evacuators

• First Aiders

These groups perform their respective assigned duties. Members are shuffled for different roles to keep them updated and active for all defined actions.

Our methodology to prepare and place Rapid Task force at the asked location by our clients is:

PLANNING skill set and number of manpower requirement.

INDUCTION as per the site-specific requirement

PLACEMENT at the site

CONTINUOUS MONITORING