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Public Health Preparedness Policies
Accidents and disasters are unpredictable occurrences that may hardly be prevented from occurring. However, their effects can be minimized especially in a public health facility. These challenges are common many public places and many societies. It is the prerogative of all stakeholders to ensure that they have appropriate disaster preparedness mechanisms. Disaster preparedness is a systematic way of averting mishaps before they occur and ensuring that the entire program runs sustainably. It is the role of the management of any public health facility to secure a good place environment for the execution of any necessary precautionary measure that will avert disasters from happening. This is the fundamental rule of safety.
Responsibility
The responsibility of taking care of safety in any public health facility is a departmental head in charge of health safety. This department must be fully equipped with the personnel and the resources necessary for the task. The general manager is supposed to keep watch over all the activities that take place in the department. The chain of responsibility is very clear, with the general manager being in charge o the entire process by accounting to the public. The specific manager in charge of the safety department is required to...
One such measure is the availability of fire extinguishers in the institution. This is important in securing the facility from fire disasters in case they occur. The concept of preparedness requires people to prepare for any eventuality because fires occur unexpectedly: fire extinguishers empowers the departmental personnel in curing the fires. The other important factor requires stakeholders to be considerate of the fact that people have a tendency to ignore alarm signs. Therefore, it is important to ensure that there are special people in charge of the situation keeping watch on a frequent basis (Hooke, 2010).
Coordination of Resources
The federal and state governments can merge their resources in securing the safety of all its public health facilities. This is the idea behind a joint safety plan. On this aspect, the state government has the clear responsibility to put plans in place that clearly demarcate the path of safety. It is through this means that the federal government will step in to supplement the efforts of the local government (Hooke, 2010). There cannot be…
References
Hooke, W. (2010). Public Health Risks of Disasters Communication, Infrastructure, and Preparedness: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Kapur, G. (2011). Emergency Public Health: Preparedness and Response. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
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