Monday, 11 January 2016

The Process Of Campus Crisis Response Plan

By Linda Watson


Crisis is sometimes referred by many as disaster and it should be well planned for or else it can result to a lot of damages. This is actually an event that can affect or has already affected the continuity of some university or reputation of that university. One of major components of crisis management strategy is communication, preparedness and awareness. It is very vital for faculty staff, students and also visitors to be aware of how they can possibly help themselves as well as others during those emergency situations. It is very important to have campus crisis response plan in each and every college.

Each and every college should have a plan goal to deal with college crisis. The goal should be to establish a complex framework by which colleges demonstrate their preparedness, respond to such situations, recoveries from disasters and mitigating impacts of wide and variety of incidents which can normally impact or influence human life and also safety of staff and the public at large.

It is recommended for all colleges to have response plan for such situations. The main goal here is to basically establish a comprehensive framework where institutions can demonstrate their readiness, mechanism put in place for recoveries and how well can they mitigate impact of disaster. Some disasters are known to have serious effect on environment while others may cause serious structural damages on surrounding properties.

Disasters are known to interrupt or even bring down the normal institutional operations. Any institutional plan must have clearly defined objectives. Some of the few objectives that can be incorporated in the strategy include, providing adequate guarantee to students and other affiliated parties to the institution that enough measures have been put into place to deal with any kind of disaster.

The strategy will provide grounds for training supervisors and other security officers on how to immediately respond to an emergency situation. The CRT mostly comprise of dean of students, director of all administrative services, assistant dean of students, head of campus safety, counseling services director, public relation director and vice chancellor.

Some of the crisis or disasters a college may be exposed to include natural calamities such as snow, ice storms and tornadoes. Other disasters can be incidents like chemical explosions, release of poisonous materials or hazardous materials, epidemics, power outages, water shortages pandemics and many other emergencies pertaining health.

When an university is exposed to the above disasters, it should come up with very comprehensive disaster management plan which will protect each and every student in that institution, protect the faulty, safeguard institutions assets, staff and ensure also public is protected from effects of disaster incidents. This strategy will actually outline the institutions preparedness, recovery, response and actions for mitigation.

When coming up with an action plan, there are some assumptions that are generally taken into consideration. They are known as planning assumptions and they assume the worst case scenario. Some of the assumptions include interruption of critical utilities like power and water, inadequate regional as well as local services and lastly destruction of buildings.




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