DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.0     Introduction

The field of Emergency Management is one of the most dynamic and challenging areas for managers. They dynamic face challenges of taking critical division on daily basis, and this; they must do without delay.

Recently, there have been significant practical developments in the field of Emergency Management, both in the private and public sector, the practice as bring sense of normalcy and control to problematic situations that confront an organization. The word “Emergency” could be defined as an unplanned event that can cause loss of lives and properties, discomfort to citizens, physical and environmental damage, and disrupt a lot of activities.

Emergency Management System has it that it is Organized analysis, planning, decision making, and assignment of available resources to mitigate, prepares for, respond to and recover from the effect of all hazards. Therefore, looking at the MARGARET EKPO International Airport (MEIA), as one of airport that needs to be saved from unnecessary disaster, it needs to be well equipped with relevant facilities such as EMS to avoid/prevent or manage any form of disaster, and it is going to draw strength from “Preparedness” (which is one of the phases of Emergency Management) as the major phase to be considered during implementation of this project.

1.1     Theoretical Background

In developing Emergency Management System the technologies used in this project are Visual Basic 6.0 and relational database technology. Visual Basic is 6.0 is a high level programming language which evolved from the earlier DOS version called BASIC: It is an acronym that stand for beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code it is a relatively easy programming language chosen for the development of the system. The Visual Basic 6.0 Language was chosen because it enables the creation of application with a graphical user interface, containing controls such as text fields, combo box, labels, command buttons etc.