Emergency Planning: Hazard Mitigation
Response Paper Instructions

Note: This is a two part assignment with
requested modifications after professor’s approval, comments and critiques. Price is for completion of both assignments.

Must us “Hazard Mitigation Template” for this assignment
(see attachment).

This assignment is intended to
grasp your insight into the numerous potential and man-made disasters for which
emergency planners must be prepared to deal. Emergency management is a quickly
evolving profession with many opportunities for individuals who wish to pursue
it as a career. This exercise will offer insights into the scope and
responsibilities of individuals in the profession. 

You will be provided a “Hazard
Mitigation Template” (see above), from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management
Agency. You will be asked to complete the five exercises in the worksheet for
your community, or a community of your choice, as the focus for the mitigation
study. This exercise requires a deal of research and analysis on their part.
After doing the research required to complete each of the five sections of
the worksheet, you must also final report which thoroughly examines the risks,
preparedness, and response capabilities of the
community. 

Assignment Part 1:  Due 10 March, you will develop an outline and a course
of action for the exercise.  After instructor approval and comments, then you
may continue with final report.  

Assignment Part
2:  For the final report, due 25 March, you should also include suggestions on
how to mitigate the risks and improve response capabilities. You may also
include relevant charts, graphs, and other illustrations to support, supplement
and/or clarify. 

Thorough data collection for this
exercise requires time. You should start data collection immediately in order to
have enough time to collect, synthesize and report on the
data. 

Some possible resources for data
include: 

• Emergency management web sites of the community the students have selected. 
• Police and fire websites. 
• Their local emergency management department. Often communities of size have
  an emergency management department. In smaller communities it is often the fire
  chief who is the designated emergency manager. 
• The community’s Streets Department or Traffic Engineering Department. 
• Local utility companies. 
• Other internet sources. 

Outside readings for this
project include: 

• The Hazard Mitigation Planning Template itself is a great source of
  information. 
• The Hazard Mitigation Planning Tools and Techniques Guide, (see attachment).
• The community’s planning department. 
• The community’s budget department. 

You must remember when doing the
exercise to also consider surrounding communities because their disasters can
also affect your community and become your responsibility. Consider industrial
manufacturing using toxic substances, military bases, large scale utility sites,
etc. that may be close by. This exercise is a chance for you to develop a
mitigation plan for the community you have chosen. 

View this exercise as if you are
the newly appointed emergency manager of the community. Prepare a written report
to the governmental entity to which you are accountable, i.e. city council,
county board of supervisors, or other legislative bodies. Prepare a thorough
report to provide to them as part of your first meeting with this group. The
report should be thorough, professional, and audience appropriate. The report
can also include charts, graphs, and other illustrations for
clarification. 

The final document must comply with
the writing guidelines established for this course. It will be a minimum of
seven (7) pages, not including the cover and reference pages. A thorough
exercise, particularly one including charts and graphs, will exceed this minimum
by several pages. The students must include in-text citations indicating where
they obtained data and information. Also they must remember to support their
findings and recommendations with references from relevant
sources. 

Hazard Mitigation Plan
Outline

1.
Introduction 

• The community’s disaster history. 
• What is mitigation and why is a mitigation plan necessary? 
• How was the plan prepared? 
• How did you obtain your information? 
• The goals and objectives of the mitigation plan? 

2. Community and Hazard Exposure
Profile (part 2 of the template) 

• Community population 
• Miles of roads 
• Airports 
• Manufacturing plants 
• Military bases 
• Hospitals 
• Dams 
• Schools 
• Etc. 

3. List of possible community
hazards (part 1 of the template). For each hazard discuss: 

• Hazard description 
• impact on property 
• Impact on safety and health 
• Any other community considerations 

4. Hazard Vulnerability analysis
and frequency chart (part 3 of the template) 

• Explanation of a hazard vulnerability analysis 
• Your chart or list matrix 

5. Your community’s capability
assessment (part 4 of the worksheet) 

• Community response capabilities 
• Description of local law enforcement response capabilities (size,
  capability, etc.) 
• Description of local fire agencies and response capabilities 
• EMS capabilities, ambulance services, hospitals, etc. 
• Physical resources 
• Technical resources (example: early warning systems) 
• Information resources (radio, TV, etc.) 
• Financial resources (emergency funds in the community, grants, state funds,
  etc.) 

6. Recommended Mitigation Measures
(part 5 of the template). For each measure include information such
as: 

• Description 
• Objectives supported 
• Who is responsible 
• When must it be done 
• Who can help 
• Budget 

7. Conclusion 

• Their overall assessment of response capabilities 
• Their recommendations for implementing priority mitigation projects for the
  community 
• Their overall assessment of the community’s vulnerability and response
  capabilities 

8. Any additional charts, graphs,
illustrations, etc. 

• They may include charts, graphs, and illustrations in the mitigation plan
  itself to assist with clarification and explanation. They must remember to
  include source citations if they copied items and/or for the information
  provided in the item if they created the chart or graph. 

9. Cover page and reference
page 

• The cover page and reference page must be included. Remember these pages are
  not to be counted as part of the seven (7) page minimum. 

History of U.S. Labor Legislation

Employers have a long history of using their power to abuse employees. Past employer practices have led to bloody conflicts. Over time, the development of Federal regulations has helped ease the tense employee/employer relationship.

Create a timeline of all the significant labor legislation passed in the 20th century using Word’s Table feature. Next to the name of each law, place a column with the year it was passed, and then another column, in your own words, provide a description of what the law covered. If the law was amended by another law, make an additional column and explain why and how it amended the previous law.

Remember to comply with APA, 6th edition guidelines as delineated in the Ashford University Writing Center and in the Originality Matters section of the course. You must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

Seaquist, G. (2015). Employee and labor relations: A practical guide. San Diego:

Assignment 1:Health Policy and Law Basics
Due Week 3 and worth 150 points

As a chief operating officer of a hospital, you have been tasked with opening a new ambulatory care center in your city.

Write a 2-3 page paper in which you:

1. Specify
   whether you would utilize the professional autonomy, social contract, or
   free market perspective as the paradigm to design the structure of your
   new center. Debate at least two (2) advantages and two (2)
   disadvantages of your chosen perspective. Provide at least two (2)
   examples of your perspective in action to support your response.
2. Analyze
   the key components of three (3) sources of law related to the effects
   that each source could potentially have on your healthcare
   organization’s new initiative.
3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed,
  double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch
  margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or
  school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
  instructions.
• Include
  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s
  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover
  page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment
  page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe the evolution of hospitals and sources of law.
• Examine tort law and the criminal aspects of health care.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
• Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.

Final Project Requirements

The Final Project will consist of two parts.

Part One will involve critiquing research that has been performed by others. You will need to critically evaluate the researcher’s work by identifying strengths, weaknesses, areas to improve, and possible extensions of the research.
Pick and thoroughly read one of the following three articles. You will need to utilize your research skills by locating them using either the ERAU Library Database or the Internet.
 Weick, K.E. 1993. The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The mann gulch disaster. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38: 628-652.
 Ashenfelter, O. and Kreuger, A. (1994) Estimates of the economic return to schooling from a new sample of twins. American Economic Review, 84(5), December, 1158-1173.
 Card, D., Krueger, A.B. (1994). Minimum wages and employment: a case study of the fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. American Economic Review, 84(4), 772-93.
Once you have read your article, you will write a critique. In your critique, discuss the following:
 Research methods used
 Why the authors selected the methods
 What other methods could have been used
 Why the other methods would have been applicable
In addition, discuss the primary results of the paper and how these results could be applied to a business application. Your paper must follow current APA standards and be no more than three pages in length, not including any appendices or attachments.

Part Two will involve developing a regression model for a topic of your choosing in an attempt to explain a phenomenon of interest. In doing so, you will be required to locate data on the Internet and do the appropriate analysis. You will also have to explain your topic of interest, the variables chosen, and why the variables were chosen, in addition to presenting and explaining your results. Your paper should include the following:
 Introduction – describe the phenomena you are attempting to model and its importance (2 – 3 paragraphs)
 Literature Review (find at least two references) – who has done similar work and what were their findings? (2 – 3 paragraphs)
 Data – summary statistics of the data (2 – 3 paragraphs)
 Methods and Results – what analysis did you perform and what were the expectations for the model? Were your results similar to those in the references you used? (3 – 6 paragraphs)
 Conclusions (2 – 3 paragraphs)
Your paper must follow current APA standards. Be sure to include tables as necessary and to label them properly (review the APA manual and the readings from Module 1).
Throughout the course there have been many topics related to analyzing data that you should consider including in your write-up such as a graph of the data. In the Appendix, you may want to include graphs used to evaluate normal distribution. A discussion of the results of such analysis should be included in the results section of the paper.
An example of a potential problem would be house values. Many counties have online tax records, which include detailed information about a house. Data may include square footage of a house, whether there is a fireplace, square footage of a deck, whether there is a basement, finished basement square footage, and lot size. Collecting the data would take a little work and would require determining how many houses you should collect data from to be able to develop a model. This topic is off limits but there are many topics available to you.

Note: I would like both part (Part I & Part II )to be each in a different file. Also the paper should be within the APA style with zero plagiarism.