Emergency (emergency management application)
Emergency (emergency management application) :
A Hazard impact causing adverse physical, social, psychological, economic or political effects that challenges the ability to rapidly & effectively respond. It requires a stepped up capacity and capability (call-back procedures, mutual aid, etc.) to meet the expected outcome, and commonly requires change from routine management methods to an incident command/management process in order to achieve the expected outcome. See: "Disaster" for important contrast between the two terms
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