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Emergency Management

Emergency Management plays an important role in keeping the UWF campus community safe before, during and after and emergency


Emergency Management Cycle

UWF Plans and Prepares

UWF's Emergency Management department is responsible for Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness. Emergency Management's goals align with the FEMA Disaster Preparedness cycle. This mindset towards Emergency Management guarantees a proactive approach to addressing all hazards or disasters.

Emergency managers think of disasters as recurring events with four phases: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. The diagram to the right illustrates the relationship of the four phases of emergency management.

What does the preparedness cycle do for UWF?

The National Incident Management System (NIMS) defines preparedness as “a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective active in an effort to ensure effective coordination during incident response.” The cycle is one element of a broader system to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.