The Emergency Management Architecture

Your emergency management profile at a glance. There are many factors that affect your organisation’s ability to react adequately to an emergency. These include:
• risk profiles
• external laws & regulations
• internal policies & procedures
• stake-holder & response agency interactions

Plansafe’s Emergency Management Architecture consolidates and orders this information into a logical visual planning and reporting tool. The architecture has three tiers which consecutively address the design and life cycle of an emergency management program.

The foundation tier encompasses a set of core principles and key issues that are relevant to managing any emergency situation (Generic Emergency Management)

The second tier, is an emergency management framework that interlocks specific organisational requirements and parameters with those of the surrounding environment in order to represent a model of what should happen in an emergency and why this should happen. (Localisation)

The third tier comprises scenario specific modules that address known and recognised threat scenarios (avian influenza, earthquakes, explosions, critical infrastructure failures etc.) and how they should be managed (Foreseeable Emergencies)

The reasoning behind the development of this architecture, has been drawn from the results of empirical sociological research, good management practice and efficiency. More often than desired there is an element of repetitive spending when planning for emergencies. There are many components of emergency management that are generic, i.e. independent of the threat that is being planned for. The EMA counteracts this repetitive spending.