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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. In March 2020, many emergency and incident response teams faced mandatory stay-at-home orders. Are you prepared?

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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

In fact, FEMA noted that “the number of annual disasters that [they] have managed has tripled in the past ten years and highlights the pivotal moment that climate change and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have created.”.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The Kerslake Report: An Independent Review into the Preparedness For, and Emergency Response to, the Manchester Arena Attack on 22nd May 2017.

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The 7 Best Business Continuity Certification Training Courses on Udemy to Consider for 2022

Solutions Review

In taking this class, small business workforces can learn the steps to become resilient, how to determine the impact of business disruptions, how to identify and manage risk, and how to develop their own emergency response and business continuity plans.

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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. Approximately 80% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to reliable emergency care in the face of a life- or limb-threatening emergency.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. million lives, affecting 4.2 Floods and storms were the most prevalent events.”.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

In addition, there are other standards such as the International Organization for Standardization - I S O 22301:2019 Societal Security – Business Continuity Management Systems, or the National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST 800-34 , which provide similar implementation guidelines.