Where do emergency management consultants work?

Emergency management consultants typically work in an office environment, either at a risk management firm, a hospital, or local government building. If you work freelance, you may work from home. Although you are indoors most of your days, you often travel to meetings with officials and agencies, visit potential disaster sites, such as dams, bridges, or levees to assess threats to the population and devise ways to address these issues. During a disaster, you may be called into the field to oversee relief efforts or organize responses.