1. CHAPTER 12 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1) What does FEMA stand for?
2) How does FEMA define "emergency management?"
3) Often, what is the first human response to an emergency?
4) What should be the overriding principle that every sport facility manager tasked with developing &
implementing an emergency management plan remember?
5) What does EMP stand for?
6) An emergency can be defined by what 2 things?
7) Explain the differences between: local, major, & catastrophic emergencies.
8) What does "EPT" stand for?
9) To ensure an emergency management plan's integration into a sport facility's organizational
culture, what 2 questions need to be answered "yes?"
10) What increases the likelihood that sport event or facility managers can rapidly & effectively
respond to life-threatening & non-life-threatening medical situations?
11) What is the focal point that coordinates all emergency medical personnel at a larger sport facility
or event?
12) What provide a primary response mechanism to medical incidents until the patient can be cared
for at the first aid location or base station, or transportation to another medical facility can be
arranged?
13) What is an AED?
14) The American Heart Association notes that at least how many lives could be saved annually by
prompt use of AEDs?

2. FEMA
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
•AN AGENCY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
•FORMED APRIL 1, 1979
•ANNUAL BUDGET: $5.8 BILLION
•PRIMARY PURPOSE: COORDINATE RESPONSE TO A DISASTER IN US THAT
OVERWHELMS RESOURCES OF LOCAL & STATE AUTHORITIES
•GOVERNOR OF STATE MUST DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY & FORMALLY
REQUEST FROM PRESIDENT THAT FEMA RESPOND

3. OFTEN, WHAT IS THE 1ST HUMAN RESPONSE TO AN EMERGENCY?
NO RESPONSE AT ALL
“PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS”
•INSTEAD…
•STOP, BREATHE, THINK, & ACT.

4. WHAT SHOULD BE THE OVERRIDING PRINCIPLE THAT EVERY SPORT
MANAGER TASKED WITH DEVELOPING & IMPLEMENTING AN
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN REMEMBER?
PEOPLE WILL MORE LIKELY OVERCOME THEIR FEAR THROUGH
PROPER TRAINING

5. FEMA & EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
“THE PROCESS OF PREPARING FOR, MITIGATING, REPONDING TO, &
RECOVERING FROM AN EMERGENCY”

6. EMP
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN

7. MITIGATION
•ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT HAZARDS FROM DEVELOPING
INTO DISASTERS
•EFFORTS TO REDUCE LOSS OF LIFE & PROPERTY BY
LESSENING THE IMPACT OF DISASTERS
•ACHIEVED THROUGH RISK ANALYSIS
•DIFFERS FROM OTHER PHASES IN THAT IT FOCUSES ON
LONG-TERM MEASURES FOR REDUCING/ELIMINATING
RISK

8. PREPAREDNESS
•HOW WE CHANGE BEHAVIOR TO LIMIT THE IMPACT OF
DISASTER EVENTS
•A CONTINUOUS CYCLE OF ACTIVITIES (PLANNING,
TRAINING, MONITORING, ETC.) TO PREVENT, PROTECT
AGAINST, RESPOND TO, & RECOVER FROM DISASTERS
•DURING THIS PHASE EMERGENCY MANAGERS:
1) DEVELOP PLANS OF ACTION TO MANAGE &
COUNTER RISKS
2) BUILD NECESSARY CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO
IMPLEMENT PLANS

9. RESPONSE
•INCLUDES MOBILIZATION OF NECESSARY EMERGENCY
SERVICES & 1ST RESPONDERS (FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE, &
AMBULANCE) IN DISASTER AREA
•RESPONSE TO DISASTER (NATURAL OR TERRORIST) IS
BASED ON EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS &
PROCESSES

10. RECOVERY
•GOAL: RESTORE AFFECTED AREA TO ITS PREVIOUS
STATE
•“BUILD BACK BETTER”
•PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH ACTIONS THAT INVOLVE:
•REBUILDING DESTROYED PROPERTY
•RE-EMPLOYMENT
•REPAIR OF ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

11. TYPE & SCOPE
TYPE:
•FIRE, NATURAL DISASTERS, TECHNICAL DISASTERS, &
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
SCOPE:
•LOCAL, MAJOR, & CATASTROPHIC

12. LOCAL DISASTER
A TYPE OF EMERGENCY THAT IS CONFINED TO A SINGLE
SETTING
-CHARACTERIZED AS THE LOWEST IN SCOPE OF ALL
EMERGENCIES.

13. MAJOR DISASTER
REQUIRES THE INVOLVEMENT OF SEVERAL GROUPS OUTSIDE
THE ORGANIZATION/EVENT TO HANDLE

14. CATASTROPHIC DISASTER
MAY INVOLVE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY IN WHICH AN EVENT
TAKES PLACE