A Disaster-Management Plan (DMP) in an industrial unit usually emphasizes:

Question

A Disaster-Management Plan (DMP) in an industrial unit usually emphasizes:

1. A. Only fire-insurance settlement procedures
2. B. Prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery across multiple hazards (Correct answer)
3. C. Only weather-forecast downloading
4. D. Only annual-holiday-planning

Correct Answer

Option B — Prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery across multiple hazards

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is Prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery across multiple hazards.

Key Points

• A Disaster Management Plan is built around the four phases of the disaster-management cycle — prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery — and it addresses multiple hazards rather than a single scenario.
• In an industrial unit it therefore covers fire, explosion, toxic release, natural hazards such as earthquake and flood, and utility failures, integrating the on-site and off-site emergency plans within one framework.
• The rejected options each reduce it to a single administrative task.

Additional Information

• The four phases divide into pre-disaster activity (prevention and preparedness) and post-disaster activity (response and recovery), which is the framing used by the NDMA.
• Prevention eliminates or reduces the hazard through safer design and siting; preparedness builds the capacity to cope through plans, training and drills; response is the immediate action during the event; recovery restores operations and rehabilitates those affected.
• India's framework rests on the Disaster Management Act, 2005, establishing the NDMA under the Prime Minister, State authorities under Chief Ministers, and District Disaster Management Authorities under Collectors.
• The modern emphasis has shifted decisively from response-centric to prevention and preparedness, on the reasoning that money spent before an event saves several times as much after it.