In these areas emergency supplies can be prepositioned in anticipation of a disaster, contracts for supplies can be developed, part of the response plan from the mitigation phase can be rolled out, and other actions taken [36].
After the disaster, his office advised contracting officers to take steps such as tapping existing contracts to support the relief effort, rather than starting from scratch with new awards.
Not long afterward they rented a cottage on Cape Cod, a vacation that by all accounts should have been a disaster: they both contracted food poisoning, had a near collision with an 18-wheeler and ran out of gas.
We also propose having multiyear disaster insurance contracts with rates locked in so that customers won't capriciously abandon their contracts after a couple of years without a disaster.
The size of the area affected by the disaster has expanded and contracted.
Bloomberg also contracted the disaster relief consulting firm Witt O'Brien's, which played an integral role in the recovery after Sandy.
Despite the lack of information about the contaminants in the dust and tsunami sludge, one month after the disaster many volunteers and contracted cleanup workers in Ishinomaki and the coastal city of Minamisanrikucho were clearing debris wearing only cotton gloves, flimsy paper masks, or no protective equipment at all.
They themselves might have been injured during the event or have suffered a life-threating experience, might be at higher risk of contracting a number of diseases, be more disabled than before the disaster, and their economic capacity might shrink with rising unemployment rates and the rise of prices that often occur after some disasters.
Further, disaster clean-up is largely a contracted solid waste management process that includes collection, transport, and disposal with solid waste companies contracting their services at varying rates (Brown et al. 2011a).
He worked in landscaping and construction and for a fire, restoration and disaster company that was sometimes contracted to clean crime scenes.
