Wiktionary
n. An effort by public safety personnel and citizens to mitigate the impact of an incident on human life and property.
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Emergency response in a museum refers to the measures and decisions needed to prepare for and respond to museum-specific emergencies. Certain action steps are taken to mitigate building, exhibition, and artifact damage, as well as any life loss. While there are prescribed methods for museum emergency response, ultimately each cultural institution should customize and periodically re-evaluate their disaster response and salvage plan to meet available resources and personnel abilities.
Usage examples of "emergency response".
Crusher replied, as she supervised the lifting of Troi onto the stretcher, and ushered her Emergency Response Team out the door.
A few years later we were hit with an MDR-TB epidemic, which cost at least one billion dollars to rein in via an emergency response program, not to mention the cost in lost productivity and human lives.
Killed not just the crew, but about half the people in that sector, including the emergency response team there.
Outside, two large emergency response vehicles were pulling up at the.
This chaos only served to further hamper an already overburdened emergency response force, which in turn caused even more discord among the populace.