It is also essential for the emergency management program to be tested periodically to determine their capability of dealing with hazards. In order to warn other areas that are at risk and to obtain useful information for the future, damage assessment should take place as well (Turoff, 2004). Specifically, the jurisdiction should develop technology adequate enough for them to "collect, compile, report, receive, and transmit damage assessment information" (Turoff, 2004). The best thing local policy makers can do when designing emergency responses policies, is implement guidelines where analyzing, researching, and providing information about hazards is priority as they are necessary for prevention.
Federal policy makers require a similar frame of mind to their local counterparts except they have an extremely large amount of people to be concerned with. Hurricane Katrina is seen as one of FEMA's shortfalls and this is largely do to disaster planning falling by the wayside before hand (Birkland, 2008). Thus, the first and foremost thing federal emergency policy makers should consider, is how much time and thought they are putting into...
The government should not avert their attention away from emergency planning simply because there are more immediate events taking place currently. Essentially, attention to possibilities and resources should be priorities in federal emergency planning (Birkland, 2008).
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