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Classification of Hazards from Supply Chain Perspective
(Resource & Information Movement)

Another type of classification can be done specifically targeted towards addressing towards supply chain issues. As our focus in this paper is on evacuation and post-disaster relief, following classification would be useful.

Note: In the discussion to follow, supply of people (trained medical staff, relief workers) has been considered as a different category.

Supply Chain Issues & Proposed Solutions

All the three (refer to note above) classes of disaster management operations consider both people and supplies to be a part of supply chain and it is a complex supply chain as the material movement is both ways (as opposed to industrial supply chain where flow is predominantly one directional).

Evacuation & Rescue Plan

Different evacuation plans should exist for different locations and different hazards. However the common issues in any case shall be following: -