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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. They are managed by the country's local resilience forums. They lack consistent funding and have little executive authority. Sir Oliver Letwin's excellent book Apocalypse How? doi: 10.1002/joc.7285

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

Water industry 1995 The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. During the interview, they talked about telemetry.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. This might be an opportunity to use some of the short exercises from my book to explore some of the issues associated with them, rather than using the scenario of a larger exercise.