Emergency Response Plan Questions and
Answers
What is an Emergency Response Team? - ✅✅A group of people who prepare for and respond to any
emergency incident, such as a natural disaster or an interruption of business operations
What is an Emergency Response Plan? - ✅✅A document that provides the foundation for disaster
and emergency response operations
It is a plan of action for the efficient deployment and coordination of services, agencies and personnel to
provide the best response to an emergency
What are the 4 phases of the Emergency Response planning process? - ✅✅Meet with involved
parties
Assess hazards and the community's exposure to harm, through risk, vulnerability, & capability
assessments
Set goals and select appropriate measures
Adopt, implement, evaluate, and revise plan
What is a risk assessment? - ✅✅Examines what could cause harm to people and estimates the
likelihood (probability) and severity of that harm (consequences)
Why conduct risk assessments? - ✅✅Helps planners to focus resources on high probability - high risk
hazards.
Documented proof of due diligence.
What is vulnerability? - ✅✅Susceptibility to harm, or the inability to withstand a hostile environment
What factors are analyzed in a vulnerability assessment? - ✅✅The existing response capabilities,
The hazards and threats,
Their probabilities, and
The potential outcomes
Answers
What is an Emergency Response Team? - ✅✅A group of people who prepare for and respond to any
emergency incident, such as a natural disaster or an interruption of business operations
What is an Emergency Response Plan? - ✅✅A document that provides the foundation for disaster
and emergency response operations
It is a plan of action for the efficient deployment and coordination of services, agencies and personnel to
provide the best response to an emergency
What are the 4 phases of the Emergency Response planning process? - ✅✅Meet with involved
parties
Assess hazards and the community's exposure to harm, through risk, vulnerability, & capability
assessments
Set goals and select appropriate measures
Adopt, implement, evaluate, and revise plan
What is a risk assessment? - ✅✅Examines what could cause harm to people and estimates the
likelihood (probability) and severity of that harm (consequences)
Why conduct risk assessments? - ✅✅Helps planners to focus resources on high probability - high risk
hazards.
Documented proof of due diligence.
What is vulnerability? - ✅✅Susceptibility to harm, or the inability to withstand a hostile environment
What factors are analyzed in a vulnerability assessment? - ✅✅The existing response capabilities,
The hazards and threats,
Their probabilities, and
The potential outcomes
