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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

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. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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What Is a Crisis Management Plan?

Erwood Group

This startling statistic underscores the importance of having a well-prepared crisis management plan in place. In this article, we’ll explore what a crisis management plan is, the benefits of implementing one, and the steps to create an effective plan.

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4 Common Crisis Management Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Castellan

Toss in multiple simultaneous (and ongoing) disruptions, and teams find themselves bogged down with response plan focus, robbing them of time to build a holistic approach that spans from planning through response and into recovery. Here’s a closer look at some common crisis management pitfalls organizations grapple with.

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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness.

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Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan?

Bernstein Crisis Management

As someone who’s seen it first-hand many times, I’ll guarantee those with prior planning and preparedness spend less money, lose less customers, generate less negative media coverage, and generally get back to ‘business as usual’ much more quickly than those without. Most good plans will have a few parts in common.

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Preparing Chemical Facilities for Hurricane Season

National Fire Protection Association

Chemical Safety Board issued a call to chemical facilities to prepare for a harsh hurricane season based on an “above average” outlook on hurricane activity from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Recently, the U.S. NOAA’s predictions also estimate a range of 12 to 17 total named storms this season.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

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.