Download or read book The Damage Assessment Process written by Henry B. Hodde (III.) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Damage Assessment Process written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing a Post Disaster Damage Assessment in Burlington Township written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With natural and man-made disasters increasing in frequency and severity across the country, the damage assessment process plays a key role in emergency management. Damage assessment information is vital for local, county, state, and federal disaster declarations to be obtained. The problem that was identified for this research project is the Burlington Township Fire Department (BTFD) does not have a formal comprehensive post disaster damage assessment process. The purpose of the research was to identify components of a standardized process for post disaster assessments to ensure that consistent and reliable information is reported to Emergency Management. The descriptive research methodology was used to answer the following questions: (a) what information should be collected during a damage assessment; (b) how can damage assessment data be collected; (c) who should collect damage assessment information; and (d) how should a damage assessment be organized? Personal interviews, a survey, and a comprehensive literature review were utilized to answer the four research questions. The results identified key components of an assessment that include creation of damage assessment teams, use of computer programs for data collection and transmission, data collection guidelines, and how to organize the assessment process. The recommendations included composition of assessment teams, utilization of FEMA's 4 point methodology, training, documentation, communication, creation of critical documents, utilization of technology, and updating the emergency management plan. Implementation of the recommendations will result in the development of a formal comprehensive damage assessment process and the improvement of emergency management operations.
Download or read book Opportunities to Improve Fema s Public Assistance Preliminary Damage Assessment Process written by Createspace Independent Pub and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opportunities to Improve FEMA's Public Assistance Preliminary Damage Assessment Process
Download or read book An Initial Storm Damage Assessment Protocol for Urban and Community Forests written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Damage Assessment in Bullhead City AZ written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem addressed by this project was a lack of analysis of the policies, procedures, and forms to be used in the event of a catastrophic, area-wide disaster affecting Bullhead City, Arizona The purpose of this research was to identify existing policies, procedures, plans, and forms and identify opportunities to increase community preparedness for a catastrophic, area wide disaster. The descriptive research method was used to answer the following questions: a) What personnel are currently expected to perform preliminary damage assessments? b) Are there other individuals and/or groups who could be trained to augment current assets? c) What forms are currently available to facilitate the preliminary damage assessment process? d) Are the current forms sufficient to ensure the community has the best opportunity for reimbursement of disaster response expenses? e) What policies, procedures, plans, or forms need to be developed to improve the preliminary disaster assessment process in Bullhead City? In-person interviews were conducted with senior leaders from Mohave County Emergency Management, Bullhead City Fire Department, and Bullhead City Police Department. Information obtained during the interview process showed a high degree of communication and collaboration among the agencies, but a lack of a formal policy, procedure, or plan guiding the damage assessment process. Recommendations included continuing to support CERT operations; maintain and enhance communication and collaboration among emergency response and emergency management agencies; develop a formal policy, procedure, or plan to guide damage assessment, reduce the likelihood of redundancy of efforts, and provide accountability for damage assessment team; and seek opportunities to implement technology solutions for damage assessment when possible.
Download or read book Examining the Need for Standardization of the Initial Damage Assessment Process in Louisa County Virginia written by Scott Keim and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recent earthquake centered in Louisa County, Virginia, required County officials to undertake an extensive and prolonged initial damage assessment process. The problem was that the Louisa County Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) did not have an established system for conducting these assessments initially caused errors in the process. The action research method was used to fulfill the purpose of this research, which was to develop a tool for Louisa County to conduct consistent and accurate initial damage assessments in the future.
Download or read book Damage Assessment and Reconstruction after War or Natural Disaster written by Adnan Ibrahimbegovic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.1. SAFETY OF CIVIL STRUCTURES Society expects that the failure of civil structures is extremely rare and relies on the care and expertise of the professionals involved in the design, construction and maintenance of structures. This is in particular true for public technical systems such as transportation or energy supply systems and structures such as bridges. Structural safety may be defined as follows: “Adequate safety with respect to a hazard is ensured provided that the hazard is kept under control by appropriate measures or the risk is limited to an acceptable value. Absolute safety is not achievable.” It is thus not the structure as such that is designated safe but rather the people, goods and the environment in its surroundings. The continued use of existing structures is of great importance because the built environment is a huge economic and political asset, growing larger every year. Nowadays evaluation of the safety of existing structures is a major engineering task, and structural engineers are increasingly called upon to devise ways for extending the life of structures whilst observing tight cost constraints. Also, existing structures are expected to resist against accidental actions although they were not designed for. Engineers may apply specific methods for evaluation in order to preserve structures and to reduce a client’s expenditure. The ultimate goal is to limit construction intervention to a minimum, a goal that is clearly in agreement with the principles of sustainable development.
Download or read book Identifying an Effective Damage Assessment Process for the City of Onalaska written by Troy R. Gudie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's recommendations include forming a partnership with the county emergency management coordinator to: identify key resources in the city and county, create and develop a damage assessment team concept to include a group supervisor(s), develop standardized forms to document: station readiness, windshield damage assessment, comprehensive damage assessment, damage assessment summary report, and provide education and training opportunities for damage assessment team members.
Download or read book Using GIS for Conducting Damage Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City of Moorhead currently does not have a process for conducting damage assessments. Needing to thus wait for such assistance from the State of Minnesota caused a lag of hours and/or days before formal assessments could occur after recent floods. Considering the complexity of obtaining valuable, accurate, and timely information from a damage assessment, we wanted to determine the feasibility for the City of Moorhead to incorporate Geographic Information System (GIS). Descriptive research was used to identify answers to the following research questions:(a) why is it important to have a process for conducting a damage assessment; (b) what is the critical information that should be collected during a damage assessment; (c) how can GIS technology assist in that damage assessment process;(d) is GIS technology a feasible tool for the City of Moorhead to use when conducting a damage assessment. Procedures used to complete the research included a thorough literature review to identify background information and commonalities. Questionnaires were then distributed to respondents across the country with public safety backgrounds, such as those in the fire department, law enforcement, and emergency management agencies. Interviews were conducted with local GIS professionals to examine a local perspective. Questionnaire and interview results were compared to the literature, indicating the importance of a damage assessment process, while the usage of GIS to assist still remained unclear. The uncertainty of how GIS can assist a damage assessment is due to the majority of respondents not using GIS. The recommendation was to move forward with creating a damage assessment process and to further explore the use of GIS to assist in that process.
Download or read book Approaches for Ecosystem Services Valuation for the Gulf of Mexico After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-03-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The full impacts of the spill on the GoM and the people who live and work there are unknown but expected to be considerable, and will be expressed over years to decades. In the short term, up to 80,000 square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were closed to fishing, resulting in loss of food, jobs and recreation. The DWH oil spill immediately triggered a process under the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) to determine the extent and severity of the "injury" (defined as an observable or measurable adverse change in a natural resource or impairment of a natural resource service) to the public trust, known as the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA). The assessment, undertaken by the trustees (designated technical experts who act on behalf of the public and who are tasked with assessing the nature and extent of site-related contamination and impacts), requires: (1) quantifying the extent of damage; (2) developing, implementing, and monitoring restoration plans; and (3) seeking compensation for the costs of assessment and restoration from those deemed responsible for the injury. This interim report provides options for expanding the current effort to include the analysis of ecosystem services to help address the unprecedented scale of this spill in U.S. waters and the challenges it presents to those charged with undertaking the damage assessment.
Download or read book Damage Assessment Manual written by Robert Kistner and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Damage Assessment Manual provides information about how to plan, design, and carryout an assessment of damage in the aftermath of natural or man-made disasters and terrorist acts. Many of the forms used by this system are similar in design to state and federal programs for public assistance damage assessment and reimbursement.Chapter One describes damage assessment by presenting five sets of activities: (1) Situation Assessment; (2) Needs Assessment; (3) Damage Assessment; (4) Health Needs; and (5) Community Impact.Chapter Two describes the Six-Steps to a Successful Damage Assessment Program. One important Step is the pre-disaster survey of your community's critical infrastructure into a "Map-Grid" system.Chapter Three describes "How To Conduct a Damage Assessment". This is often overlooked by many state and local governments. By following our steps and methods you will be able to conduct the assessments. You will need at least two-teams (Individual Assistance (IA) and a Public Assistance (PA) damage assessment team).Chapter Four describes the role of the Damage Assessment Coordinator and how to prepare the necessary teams for action.Chapter Five includes an overview of the federal disaster assistance programs managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). More details of their programs can be obtained from their web site at www.fema.gov.Chapter Six describes the recordkeeping process following a presidentially declared disaster and how to receive the maximum reimbursement of dollars possible.Chapter Seven describes the EPC Incident Tracking System (ITS) and the City of Durango, Colorado's Incident Tracking System (ITS)Finally, all of the forms and the disaster assessment system are "Web-Enabled" and located on our www.damageassessment.biz site (requires login and password from EPC. We also offer training, supplies, software and exercises for damage assessment.
Download or read book Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss written by Sinan Akkar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading international reinsurance and modeling companies as well as government agencies responsible of insurance pricing in Turkey. The book includes chapters related to post-earthquake damage assessment, the state-of-art and novel earthquake loss modeling, their implementation and implication in insurance pricing at national, regional and global levels, and the role of earthquake insurance in building resilient societies and fire following earthquakes. The rich context encompassed in the book makes it a valuable tool not only for professionals and researchers dealing with earthquake loss modeling but also for practitioners in the insurance and reinsurance industry.
Download or read book Hurricane Damage Assessment Process for Residential Buildings written by Carol C. Massarra and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing a Damage Assessment Process for the Sioux City Fire Department written by Robert S. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of this research provided recommendations for a comprehensive plan. The components of the plan called for development of a damage assessment procedure, damage reporting form and training requirements for the SCFD.
Download or read book An Exploratory Study of Preliminary Damage Assessments in Northern Illinois written by Michael C. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary damage assessments are conducted as a requirement for presidential disaster declarations. Historically the process of conducting damage assessments has been ignored by disaster literature. The implications of damage assessments affect how a community recovers from a disaster. This paper uses qualitative methods to examine the damage assessment process in two counties in Illinois following the floods of 2013. This exploratory study examines many aspects of damage assessments including training, team composition, methods of conduct, and uses of data. The findings from this study aim to provide more insight into this topic, opportunities for future research, as well as best practices for practitioners.
Download or read book FEMA s Disaster Declaration Process written by Francis X. McCarthy and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Background; (2) Congress and the Declaration Process: Impetus, and Skepticism for Reform; (3) Pres¿l. and Gubernatorial Discretion; (4) Preliminary Damage Assessments; (5) Factors Considered for Public Assistance in Major Disaster Declarations (MDD): Estimated Cost of the Assist.; Localized Impacts; Insur. Coverage; Hazard Mitigation; Recent Multiple Disasters; Other Fed. Programs; (6) Factors Considered for Individual Assist. in MDD: Concentration of Damages; Trauma; Special Populations; Voluntary Agency Assist.; Insur. Coverage; Avg. Amount of Individual Assist. by State; Congress. Consid. for the Declaration Process; Composition of Preliminary Damage Assessment Teams; and Revising Individual Assist. Averages.
