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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

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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. Keep your plan simple.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

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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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7 Skills Leaders Must Master for Effective Response to Critical Events

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Much of the discussion on and organization’s state of readiness for critical events focuses on the capabilities and planning of the enterprise. Emergency response planning is crucial, but even the most robust plan can’t cover all situations. Seven Essential Skills for Effective Crisis Management.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

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Every organization’s crisis management plan must include a crisis communications plan and strategy. Before we get to that list of resources, let’s review a few crisis communication essentials to set the stage. Here are eight tips to help you protect your brand in a crisis: Become brand-aware.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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An integrated critical event management (CEM) platform can help crisis management teams successfully communicate with their people during a severe weather event. A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. Develop a plan for data backup. And continue to test your emergency response plan. There is much to consider when creating a business continuity plan; these are just a few ideas. Prepare for your recovery.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

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A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. Contains links to toolkits for preparing for different hazards as well as pages on Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Incident Management, IT/DR, and much more.

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