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Omar

The role of planners is to ensure the safety of the community, one of their primary roles is and always be the enhancement of life. For planners, nothing is more important or essential than protecting the quality of life. Planners have a set of skills that can assist in the Mitigation planning for the community. It is important that planners perceive the centrality of their roles and used their talents to the maximum benefit to ensure safety in the community. Most planners have training in involving the public. During their time many planners had acquired considerable experience in the field, many of them are well aware that planning involved political consideration.

One of the most challenging task for the planners is the involvement in integrating hazard mitigation. The process to leverage the elements of the community in making it safe and achieve a reduction in losses of life and property. Planners can initiate public dialogue before the disaster strikes. One of the goals of the planners is to integrate hazard mitigation into a large plan to ensure the safety of the community. Not only planners are responsible for the safety of the community many organizations rely on the planners as the planners rely on them to ensure a safe community. Scientific and technical sources, civil and structural engineers provide data, and geologists, hydrologists, climate and weather specialist along other are involved in the planning of the hazard mitigation. During the planning phase, many organizations are involved, including city officials, local police, fire department. Park officials, hospital, stakeholders, local government, public, and private sector they all play a role in the mitigation phase.

After planners had identified all the possible hazards to ensure a safe community the role of implementing or preparing local mitigation plans should be handle by the Emergency Management department. FEMA requirements normally are administrated by Emergency Managers, they’re trained in many areas including knowledge on evacuation routes. Emergency Managers are trained to identify and respond to a disaster and to anticipate what might go wrong in the community.  

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Robert,

Emergency Planners play a vital role in emergency management. They lay out a road map for Emergency Management Officials, Incident Commanders, and Incident Management Team members, that direct them on how to prepare for, respond to and recover from the plethora of hazards they face. Emergency Planners help corporations, non-profits, state, local, tribal, and government agencies understand their roles in responsibilities in each of the five phases of emergency management. The five phases of Emergency Management are prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

One of the critical first steps for Emergency Planners is to decide which stakeholders need to be a part of the emergency planning process. “Thus, disaster planning requires strong support from one of the following: the jurisdiction’s chief administrative officer; an issue champion, also known as a “policy entrepreneur,” who has the expertise and organizational legitimacy to promote emergency management; or a disaster planning committee that can mobilize a constituency in support of emergency management.” (Lindell/Emergency Management Magazine & Perry/Emergency Management Magazine, 2008) A sample list of stakeholders that be invited to the planning meetings are, Police, Fire, City Commissioners, City Council, Medical, Non-Profits, Businesses, Communication groups, Public Works, Military, if located near a military installation, Press/Public Affairs, and other vital stakeholders in a community.

Once solidified, the group should focus on the hazards they face and plan to respond to and recover from these hazards. They will continue to revamp these plans with the same stakeholders or add more if necessary after each emergency or exercise. This planning cycle will continue all year. Local Emergency Managers should create hazard mitigation plans and other emergency management plans, to support their communities. The key and underlying focus in all of their emergency planning will be on saving lives, preventing human suffering, and mitigating great property damage in an all-hazards environment. Emergency Planners are vital in emergency management because they create guidance for all the stakeholders to follow during emergencies.