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Disaster Management

Social Work and Community Development · Level 6  ·  5 Chapters

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Chapters

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Conduct disaster risk assessment
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Develop disaster intervention plan
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Execute disaster intervention plan
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Evaluate disaster intervention plan
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Conduct post disaster development
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What Disaster Management covers: 32 main topics in 5 chapters

1. Conduct disaster risk assessment

  1. 1.1 Definition of terms
  2. 1.2 Types of hazards
  3. 1.3 Types of disasters
  4. 1.4 Classification of disasters
  5. 1.5 Disaster management resources
  6. 1.6 Issues in disaster management
  7. 1.7 Profiling and categorization of existing disasters in the community
  8. 1.8 Early warning signs of disasters
  9. 1.9 Analysis of disaster prevalence in the community
  10. 1.10 Disaster management cycle

2. Develop disaster intervention plan

  1. 2.1 Introduction to disaster intervention plan
  2. 2.2 Review of existing disaster intervention plans
  3. 2.3 Process of disaster preparedness
  4. 2.4 Operation Partners
  5. 2.5 Challenges in disaster intervention plan
  6. 2.6 Case studies on disaster intervention

3. Execute disaster intervention plan

  1. 3.1 Audit of the community disaster intervention mechanisms
  2. 3.2 Disaster preparedness gaps
  3. 3.3 Disaster intervention measures
  4. 3.4 Capacity building plan and implementation (training, drills, acquisition of relevant equipment, personal survival skills)

4. Evaluate disaster intervention plan

  1. 4.1 Meaning and importance of evaluating disaster intervention plan
  2. 4.2 Evaluation tools
  3. 4.3 Disaster evaluation team formation.
  4. 4.4 Evaluation process
  5. 4.5 Intervention gap identification
  6. 4.6 Evaluation report preparation and dissemination

5. Conduct post disaster development

  1. 5.1 Meaning and importance of post disaster development
  2. 5.2 Prevention measures
  3. 5.3 Ways of assessing post disaster development
  4. 5.4 Impact of post disaster development
  5. 5.5 Players in post-disaster development
  6. 5.6 Documentation of post disaster development.

Revise this unit

Exam-style questions Written to CDACC standard, with answers Test yourself Multiple-choice, one at a time Practise questions Quick recall — check you know the facts
3 more for this unit
Oral exam preparation What the assessor asks, and how to answer out loud Worked calculations Step-by-step maths with the common mistakes Quick cards Myth busters, skill tips and scenarios

Beyond the syllabus

Decision simulator On site, what would you do? Workplace scenarios Real site situations — what would you do? Turn this into income Where this skill earns — what to charge, how to find clients

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