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Aligning Crisis Management Strategies with Objectives

Bernstein Crisis Management

Aligning Crisis Management Strategies with Objectives Introduction to Crisis Management Strategies Crisis management strategies are a crucial part of any business plan. The efficacy of a crisis management strategy is largely determined by its alignment with the broader business objectives.

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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In March 2020, many emergency and incident response teams faced mandatory stay-at-home orders. In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable?

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

Hurricanes pose immense risk to the safety of an organization’s people, the continuity of operations, and the connectivity of communications systems. During a hurricane, critical event managers must be able to communicate crucial safety information to the people for which they are responsible. GET IN TOUCH.

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Reflections on Providing Operational Support During a Crisis

FEI

As an operations specialist with FEI’s crisis management team, I assist our customers by integrating our crisis support services into their business continuity planning. Preventing a crisis is always best but not always possible. These include: Emergency notifications. COVID-19 is the perfect example.

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The 7 critical elements of a business continuity plan

Online Computers

Emergency response procedures Your emergency response procedures should outline the immediate actions to be taken when a disruption occurs. These include protocols for evacuation, communication, emergency contacts, and initial damage assessment.