Authorization Emergency Planning Pandemic Transportation 
Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.
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Emergency Planning
MARCH 11, 2020
It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. Major epidemics and pandemics (what is the difference?)
Emergency Planning
JUNE 20, 2020
Image: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In terms of its scope, Covid-19 is like no other disaster that has occurred in the last 100 years, since, in fact, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 killed more people than both world wars combined, and contributed to the end of the First World War.
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 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack. Myth 36: In a biological terrorism attack or pandemic prophylaxis will be effective and efficient.
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.
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.
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