Disaster response is known as the second phase of a disaster management cycle – the first being preparedness. It includes warning and evacuation, search and rescue, the provision of immediate assistance, damage assessment, continuing assistance and the immediate restoration of infrastructure.
The aim of emergency response is to do as much as possible, as quickly as possible, to maintain life, improve health and support the morale of the affected population.
Training for disaster response requires a multi-pronged approach, across many different agencies.
‘We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness’ – Petra Nemcova
Disaster response is known as the second phase of a disaster management cycle – the first being preparedness. It includes warning and evacuation, search and rescue, the provision of immediate assistance, damage assessment, continuing assistance and the immediate restoration of infrastructure.
The aim of emergency response is to do as much as possible, as quickly as possible, to maintain life, improve health and support the morale of the affected population.
Training for disaster response requires a multi-pronged approach, across many different agencies.
The IPS Group is dedicated to improving and expanding the resources made available for disaster response and all public safety events, especially for developing countries with their poverty-stricken vulnerable communities.
The IPS Group will also have the operational ability to respond effectively in an appropriate way to any major disaster or emergency, anywhere in the world, within 24 hours – an international response time that is almost unheard of today.
Part of our brief is to set up an International Disaster Response Centre (IDRC) . This centre would be responsible for undertaking detailed pre-disaster planning and for co-coordinating the international community’s future responses to major humanitarian emergencies.
Our airborne Disaster Response Task Force (DRTF) will comprise around 100 highly trained and experienced Disaster and Emergency Response and Para-rescue personnel, largely recruited from the group of individual contractors who currently operate as independent disaster contractors internationally.
The DRTF will be well resourced and fully self-contained. It will have at its disposal a fleet of dedicated ‘heavy lift’ transport aircraft, inflatable buildings, power source, satellite communications, rescue boats, 4WD ground transportation, medical field hospital and all supplies essential for effective first responder capabilities at any emergency. All this will be based at the IPS Group Base facility in Queensland.
It will be the ONLY response team that truly is self sufficient in the world.