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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future. To help achieve this level of preparation, each U.S.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In early 2019, FEI’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) involved a room that had been identified specifically for emergency or incident response teams to report to if a crisis occurred. Second, the COVID-19 pandemic required a lengthy response. The COVID-19 pandemic did not ascribe to this. Are you prepared?

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PagerDuty Deploys $600K to Further Investments in Global Health by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

Recognizing that the leading cause of death in the world today is delay, PagerDuty launched its Time-Critical Health focus area in 2019 with the mission to help save lives by reaching people faster. Continued unrestricted funding and technical support will enable Nexleaf to further pilot use cases for automated alerts and analytics.

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Has the firefighting stopped? The effect of COVID-19 on on-call engineers by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

According to our data, the number of critical incidents grew by 19% from 2019-2020. Comparing the hours worked in the first 12 months of the pandemic (March 2020-March 2021) to the preceding 12 months (March 2019-March 2020), we can see that more than a third of PagerDuty users worked far less consistent schedules in 2020 than in 2019.

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ChatOps and Mobile Adoption: The Power of Teams Working Where They Are by Anat Hazanchuk

PagerDuty

While work from home (WFH) was an option before the pandemic, NCCI states , “only 6% of the employed worked primarily from home and about three-quarters of workers had never worked from home.” We analyzed our own platform data and compared how teams handled urgent work in 2019 and 2020.

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Why Crisis Management Preparedness Matters

everbridge

Almost 70 percent of leaders have dealt with a corporate crisis in the last five years, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found in its 2019 Global Crisis Survey. The university uses the platform at least once a month just for severe weather alerts alone and plans to take greater advantage of its many features in the years ahead. “It

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Duty of Care for Business Travelers

everbridge

While we are seeing an increase in air travel once more, domestic air travel is still down 19% from January 2019, and international travel remains down 13% from pre-COVID levels. In addition to these exacerbated traditional threats, a new series of business challenges have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. ” WATCH WEBINAR.

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