Emergency management is the generic name of an interdisciplinary field dealing with the strategic organizational management processes used to protect critical assets of an organization from hazard risks that can cause events like disasters or catastrophes and to ensure the resiliency of the organization within their planned lifetime.
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“In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.”
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