ABSTRACT
The corporate headquarters mission involves coordination of the company’s strategic environmental decisions. Activities such as tracking environmental legislation, evaluating potential economic impacts, and coordination with lobbying efforts naturally fall within this realm. A corporation should ensure emergency management procedures are established from a tactical perspective that addresses plant level organizational arrangements and responsibilities and procedures during disaster events. Corporations should make it a point to study past disasters as planning and training examples to help develop a corporation’s own emergency planning and training. Corporations should make it a point to study past disasters as planning and training examples to help develop a corporation’s own emergency planning and training. Communities should select threats and hazards of greatest concern based on the likelihood of occurrence and significance of effects. To establish context descriptions, one should consider factors such as time, place, and conditions that would make this threat or hazard more challenging for their jurisdiction.
