Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
What does all this mean for Britain? 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. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.
CCEM Strategies
MARCH 17, 2023
Provincial and local authorities are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their regions and together, they work to create and test emergency plans that will ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, long before an incident occurs. And they also know how to work with CI teams.
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Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. I have taught it every year since then.
CCEM Strategies
JULY 24, 2018
Provincial, as well as Local Authorities, are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their territory. This is accomplished through the development, maintenance and testing of internal emergency management programs that are monitored and enforced by government authorities.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
I replied that, as there are more than 80 dedicated journals in the disasters, risks and hazards fields, and more than 500 others that occasionally publish papers on such themes, no such need existed. Prior to submitting a work for publication, one must make sure that one has read all the truly pertinent literature.
Emergency Planning
MAY 27, 2019
We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Nor, for more than four centuries, could they be bothered to read them.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 7, 2019
Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard.
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