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Much of this legal business should have been clearly worked out and explained in any emergency plan, Alexander explained.
In fact in most cases the first responders and frontline emergency workers should have fully filled out a "valid release document" that "absolves their superiors from liability" (Alexander, p. 127). And what happens when an emergency management team fails? For example, when rescue workers are injured in the process of rescuing people from a disaster, because there can be issues and questions of "negligence, willfulness, risk taking and causality," Alexander goes on; hence release documents must have been signed and a valid emergency management plan needs to have been put in place.
Also the use of doctors and nurses, and engineers and others that will participate in an emergency management situation must have "bona fide status" as participants and be fully certified to protect them and the agency from litigation when something goes wrong (Alexander, 127). There is the possibility of a participant being held accountable in a post-disaster lawsuit, and even going...
Moreover, Alexander (127) suggests that a mechanism should be put in place along with the emergency plan that sets in motion the procedure for investigating "…any legal transgressions or claims that may arise out of future emergency-management activities that produce negative results."
In conclusion, there are very serious ethical and legal considerations that need to be thought out and prepared in legal documents with any emergency management plan. Lawyers are the key here, and also experts on the most recent Supreme Court decisions with reference to emergency plans need to be called in to make certain all the legal possibilities (and there are many) are given serious consideration.
Works Cited
Alexander, David E. (2002). Principles of Emergency Planning and Management. New York:
Lindell, Michael K., Prater, Carla, and Perry, Ronald W. (2006). Wiley Pathways Introduction to Emergency Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley…
Works Cited
Alexander, David E. (2002). Principles of Emergency Planning and Management. New York:
Lindell, Michael K., Prater, Carla, and Perry, Ronald W. (2006). Wiley Pathways Introduction to Emergency Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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