Emergency Planning

MARCH 27, 2020

So is the response by academic authors. They also wish to capture experience and preserve it as evidence on which to base future policies and plans. Authors can write in haste and repent at their leisure: editors can rue the day. As I write, the Covid-19 pandemic is ramping up in many countries.

Pandemic 130

Pandemic Publishing Authorization Government 130

CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

A long-term funding and capacity building framework is still needed to support First Nations and local authorities in meeting the new EDMA requirements. We work with First Nations and local authorities from across British Columbia and can apply our expertise to customize a strategy for your community. The team at CCEM can help.

Management 64

Management Capacity Strategic Risk Reduction 64

Emergency Planning

MARCH 16, 2021

Overlooked by the local authority they were struggling with a care burden that was making their lives intolerable, but they soldiered on with strength and fortitude, uncomplaining. We took the matter up with the local authority and pleaded that they be given more support.

Authorization 130

Authorization Education Government Activation 130

CCEM Strategies

JULY 24, 2018

Provincial, as well as Local Authorities, are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their territory. Further, legislative and regulatory requirements prescribe a framework within which CI must plan and prepare for emergencies. CI can be stand-alone, or cross provincial or national borders.

Resilience 52

Resilience All-Hazards Hazard Authorization 52

Emergency Planning

APRIL 5, 2019

Consider this exchange between the authors of Lord of the Flies and For Whom the Bell Tolls. "He I have used it to shoot down both published and aspiring authors. In a later essay, "Making writing simple" he reflects: "Writing that was hard to understand was like a password to their secret society." In language, it is power!

Authorization 130

Authorization Publishing Communications Insurance 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am amazed at how many authors submit work and do not even seem to have spent those vital two minutes putting the basic key words into Google Scholar. Unfortunately, searching for such information is very much like looking for a needle in a haystack. This makes it all the more likely that earlier work will unknowingly be repeated.

Publishing 130

Publishing All-Hazards Risk Reduction Education 130

Emergency Planning

APRIL 9, 2020

It is obvious that much of what is written will be read by practically no one beyond the authors and perhaps a couple of referees. Covid-19 may be different because information may well become available to a geater order of magnitude than ever before. What use is it then?

Publishing 130

Publishing Fashion Activation Authorization 130

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. Leonardo wrote for himself, privately, often using his ambidextrous skills to write in mirror image. Nor, for more than four centuries, could they be bothered to read them.

Natural Hazard 130

Natural Hazard Risk Reduction All-Hazards Hazard 130

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 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises. In the worst possible cases only 15-30 per cent of victims show passive and dazed reactions.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

Plan B Consulting

JULY 17, 2015

Emergency plans tend to cater for the needs of the emergency and other responding services, rather than explicitly addressing the needs and priorities of the people involved”. Procedures tend to focus too much on incidents, rather than on individuals, and on processes rather than people.

Communications 52

Communications Authorization Emergency Planning Consulting 52

Plan B Consulting

JULY 17, 2015

Emergency plans tend to cater for the needs of the emergency and other responding services, rather than explicitly addressing the needs and priorities of the people involved”. Procedures tend to focus too much on incidents, rather than on individuals, and on processes rather than people.

Communications 52

Communications Authorization Emergency Planning Consulting 52

Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Graff described malpractice among academic journal editors and called for a bill of rights to protect authors against such excesses. During that time I have encountered all sorts of behaviour, good and bad, by authors, reviewers and editors. Herein I am going to concentrate on malpractice by authors. Plagiarism.

Publishing 130

Publishing Authorization Education Communications 130

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I had the task, as the Emergency Planning Manager, to conduct a debrief of a multi-agency water contamination exercise involving the Local CCDC (doctor responsible for outbreaks in the local area), the Local Authority, a hospital and various people from Anglian Water. A long time ago I was involved in the water industry.

Emergency Planning 52

Emergency Planning Hospitality Communications Authorization 52

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I had the task, as the Emergency Planning Manager, to conduct a debrief of a multi-agency water contamination exercise involving the Local CCDC (doctor responsible for outbreaks in the local area), the Local Authority, a hospital and various people from Anglian Water. A long time ago I was involved in the water industry.

Emergency Planning 52

Emergency Planning Hospitality Communications Authorization 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. This was followed by Y2K and the birth of business continuity.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery 40

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. This was followed by Y2K and the birth of business continuity.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery 40

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. What does that mean to us business continuity people?

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Emergency Planning Publishing Authorization 52

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. What does that mean to us business continuity people?

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Emergency Planning Publishing Authorization 52

everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

During severe weather emergencies, authorities, companies, and organizations will need to easily identify and communicate effectively with on-the-ground teams, any at-risk populations, first responders, transportation resources, and medical supplies. In the past, this could mean making phone calls for hours.

Resilience 142

Resilience Risk Reduction Management Command Center 142

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The UK Official Secrets Act (1989) defines vaguely what information is protected but is quite clear about the consequences of sharing such information: "the person into whose possession the information, document or article has come is guilty of an offence if he discloses it without lawful authority knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that (..)

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard 130

Plan B Consulting

JULY 14, 2017

The benefit of this book for me, as a business continuity practitioner, is within the tactical and operational insights and ideas it gives, rather than the strategic change I suspect the authors would like. The first chapter, ‘Demolition’, outlines a number of practices which the authors would like us to eliminate, known as ‘traditional BC’.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Activation Authorization Strategic 52

Plan B Consulting

JULY 14, 2017

The benefit of this book for me, as a business continuity practitioner, is within the tactical and operational insights and ideas it gives, rather than the strategic change I suspect the authors would like. The first chapter, ‘Demolition’, outlines a number of practices which the authors would like us to eliminate, known as ‘traditional BC’.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Activation Authorization Strategic 52

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

Attacks on English local authorities, such as Hackney, I believe have not been paid, but the consequence of this is that three months later they still do not have all their systems back online. David Pirie could have been the duty Director or be responsible for emergency planning and so this may be in line with their emergency plans.

Communications 52

Communications Media Government Publishing 52

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

Attacks on English local authorities, such as Hackney, I believe have not been paid, but the consequence of this is that three months later they still do not have all their systems back online. David Pirie could have been the duty Director or be responsible for emergency planning and so this may be in line with their emergency plans.

Communications 52

Communications Media Government Publishing 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

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.

Vulnerability 40

Vulnerability Internet Malware Emergency Planning 40

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

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 week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this.

Vulnerability 40

Vulnerability Internet Business Continuity Malware 40

Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

The role of emergency planning. The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. Since the start of Covid-19 we have seen the failure of emergency planning, which is an indication of failure to provide foresight.

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Emergency Planning Pandemic Logistics Vulnerability 130