Emergency Management Cycle
UndergraduateTAS-HSP2352025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Emergency Management Cycle
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Describe the basic principles that underpin the emergency management cycle.
- Identify how the emergency management cycle is applied in practice using authentic case studies.
- Prevention and mitigation
- Principles of preparedness
- Exercise management
- Principles of response management
- Incident management systems
- Emergency operations centres
- Response in practice
- The principles of managing recovery
- Lessons management
- The PPRR Cycle
This subject examines the application of general management principles to the particular context of emergency management where normal challenges are further complicated by system failures, inadequate information, complex multi-agency and whole of community approaches and a challenging political and social environment.
The subject will examine the management principles through the cycle of emergency management involving the prevention and mitigation phase, preparedness phase, response phase, and recovery phase. It will also explore specific management issues that are central to effective emergency management practice including the impact of socio-technical systems design and human factors.
This subject is an intermediate (level 2) emergency management subject focused on emergency management in disasters. This subject will present a range of examples upon which to reflect, in order to critically analyse the cycle of emergency management.
- Multiple Choice Questions (20%)
- Preparedness Exercise Proposal 1 (40%)
- Preparedness Exercise Proposal 2 (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: this subject is fully online, with weekly lectures (prerecorded), case studies, and readings.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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