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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In March 2020, many emergency and incident response teams faced mandatory stay-at-home orders. In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable?

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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.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

Every organization’s crisis management plan must include a crisis communications plan and strategy. Before we get to that list of resources, let’s review a few crisis communication essentials to set the stage. Here are eight tips to help you protect your brand in a crisis: Become brand-aware.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

Every severe weather emergency response generates valuable data that is used in the continuous improvement process for risk management. Analyzing data, identifying gaps, and using lessons learned to discover areas that can be improved during the next emergency is where the value of technology lies.

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What Happens When the Crisis Becomes a Marathon?

FEI

As one of many emergency response teams providing support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have just passed the six-month marker since we first activated to support our company and our stakeholders. 11 terrorist attacks, an emergency response typically has a very short timeframe, ranging from a few hours to several days.

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PagerDuty goes global with national preparedness month: Preparing our workforce for crisis by Jason Flint

PagerDuty

This month, we’ve been teaching Dutonians about safety and emergency response through a series of educational sessions and exercises. Our focus has been on enablement, from how to use PagerDuty to practicing incident management and learning best practice for employee personal safety.

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SIA New Member Profile: IXP Corporation

Security Industry Association

Campus safety and emergency response: Video surveillance enhances campus safety by monitoring critical areas, such as entry points, parking lots, common areas and sensitive facilities. Video surveillance and analytics can assist in managing crowd flow, monitoring traffic patterns and identifying potential congestion points.