Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. This may involve deploying field hospitals and using the resources of military medicine. Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations.

Pandemic 176

Pandemic Hospitality Logistics Authorization 176

Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. The role of emergency planning. The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period.

Emergency Planning 130

Emergency Planning Pandemic Logistics Vulnerability 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 29, 2023

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.)

Transportation 208

Transportation Hospitality Sports Emergency Response 208

Emergency Planning

MARCH 11, 2020

difficulties associated with procuring reliable, intelligible information being in the wrong place at the wrong time general uncertainty in the evolution of the epidemic These, then, are the possible building blocks of scenarios that could be used for future planning.

Pandemic 130

Pandemic Tourism Hospitality Transportation 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 26, 2020

Hospital beds, medical staff, personal protective equipment, ventilators, vaccines, antivirals, palliative medicines, economic subsidies, payment for holidays, substitute wages, organised assistance, the policing of social distancing, the reorganisation of public transport and basic services, emergency communication, they are all being improvised.

Pandemic 130

Pandemic Vulnerability Hospitality Transportation 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Reality: Field hospitals are usually set up too late to treat the injured and end up providing general medicine and continuity of care. Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130