Emergency Preparedness Analysis: Method for Analysing and Assessing Emergency Preparedness

Establishing emergency preparedness should be a systematic process aimed at determining suitable emergency preparedness measures based on the existing risk. This paper presents a new method for analysing and assessing emergency preparedness, using the risk analysis as a starting point. The suggested method thus focuses on identifying emergency situations, analysing emergency preparedness arrangements, and evaluating emergency preparedness solutions, in addition to deciding the context prior to the analysis and implementing the solutions afterwords. By using the method, an organisation can scale their response arrangement and the necessary activities to cope with the manifested risk at hand, in addition to review the effectiveness of their emergency response procedures in respect of a given incident scenario. An examination of recent emergency preparedness analyses shows that the suggested method for EPA appears to be promising and useful.

Keywords: Emergency preparedness analysis, Emergency preparedness assessment, Preparedness planning, EPA.