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Crisis Management Skills: Effective Leadership for All Hazards

Alert Media

Train your crisis leadership team in these core crisis management skills to better prepare them for emergency situations.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Book Review: Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management. Editors : Claire Connolly Knox and Brittany “Brie” Haupt Title : Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. link] April 2020.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.

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The Hazard of Mixing Chemicals

National Fire Protection Association

We have all heard there are chemicals that we cannot mix together. It all started when a waste company began pumping sludge out of a local plant. For example, many chemicals form strong acids or bases when mixed with water, thus introducing a chemical burn hazard. Have you ever thought about this on a larger scale though?

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Top 10 BCM Resources All that being said, here are my top 10 resources to help you become a ninja-level BCM practitioner: 1. Talks about the need for business to be prepared for three types of hazards, natural, human-caused, and technology-related.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic Capability’. In both documents, I and a number of others are pushing the concept that there should be scenario-specific plans, at a crisis or strategic level. However, most organisations have since moved on from this.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic Capability’. In both documents, I and a number of others are pushing the concept that there should be scenario-specific plans, at a crisis or strategic level. However, most organisations have since moved on from this.