Justify why emergency preparedness and response is important.

Select one current emergency topic from the CDC Emergency Preparedness websiteLinks to an external site. and summarize the topic and how it might affect your business, community, or home.

Using the same emergency topic you summarized in item #2, and based on the resources from OSHA's Emergency Preparedness and Response websiteLinks to an external site., write a detailed plan for how you would respond to the emergency. For this portion of the assignment, imagine that you are writing the response plan for either your place of employment, community, or home. Be sure to formulate a specific emergency preparedness/response plan that identifies what will be done (and how) to prepare for and protect your employees, citizens, or family in the event that you were to experience this emergency situation.