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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

If we look at major emergencies in the UK over the last 25 years or so, there have been significant deficiencies in the response in just about every case. Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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How to include all types of volunteers in your emergency management plans

CCEM Strategies

Volunteers can be engaged in any type of emergency response—floods, wildfires, earthquakes and even acts of terror. Recent examples of volunteers emerging to support response and recovery operations during a disaster include BC’s 2021 atmospheric river and the 2022 earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Which type (i.e.,

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

The current system for managing major incidents and disasters in the United Kingdom was devised after the Broadwater Farm, Tottenham, riots of 1986 and reflects a preoccupation with public order. In the world as a whole, there has been a gradual process of demilitarisation of emergency response. Moreover, it is inclusive.

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Interoperability Needed: 911 Overflow

Swan Island Network

September 5, 2017. Enterprise Risk Management. Enterprise Risk Management: 3 Keys to Success. Interoperability Needed: 911 Overflow. Pete O'Dell. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. Here we are again, another disaster an another overloaded 911 system in Houston. October 30, 2020. FREE DEMO.

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The Dark Side of Incident Recovery

Plan B Consulting

Within the UK, there is good practice for setting up disaster funds, after a number of scandals in the past, where disaster funds have not been properly managed. When I was working in North Carolina, developing hurricane evacuation plans, I met the ex-Emergency Response Manager for Miami.

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The Dark Side of Incident Recovery

Plan B Consulting

Within the UK, there is good practice for setting up disaster funds, after a number of scandals in the past, where disaster funds have not been properly managed. When I was working in North Carolina, developing hurricane evacuation plans, I met the ex-Emergency Response Manager for Miami.