5 key qualities of good emergency planning
One of the many vestiges of the recently departed decade was the conclusion that emergency plans had little value. Although it was not a new concept, this perspective came into particular vogue in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Pundits rolled out military quotations from von Moltke (“No plan survives first contact with the enemy”) to Eisenhower (“Plans are worthless; planning is everything”), while the Department of Homeland Security reflexively piled on numerous planning requirements for local and state agencies.
The fact that most of these mandated plans had no connection to hazard profile, vulnerability or local need (much like many of the required batch related to terrorism) simply amplified what for many was an underlying sense of futility and typified DHS’s lurching between terrorism and hurricanes at that time, not to mention seemingly proving the pundits’ point.
See 5 key qualities of good emergency planning, by Jeff Rubin, Ph.D.
Tags: emergency planning
