Emergency Versus Disaster
Emergency Versus Disaster : Each specialist field describes hazardous events in different ways, and there is also variation between the States and Territories. Thus, the hazardous events are variously labelled as 'accidents', 'incidents', 'emergencies', and 'disasters'; depending upon the scale of the event, the number of organisations involved, and the ability of the organisations to cope within their normal resources. For example, a major vehicle accident may be labelled an 'incident' by the emergency services, but may be labelled a 'disaster' by an emergency medical facility. A general movement away from the terms 'counter-disaster' and 'disaster' towards the term 'emergency' has occurred in Australia over the last few years. Thus, in the Glossary, the term 'emergency' is generally used in compound terms, such as 'emergency management', in preference to 'disaster'. The terms 'disaster' and 'disaster management' are, however, still used in Australia to describe events of a truly disastrous nature
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