Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. This may involve deploying field hospitals and using the resources of military medicine. Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations.

Pandemic 176

Pandemic Hospitality Logistics Authorization 176

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. Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Within this compass, most decision-making can be judged rational.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Civil protection must be developed at the local authority level, coordinated regionally and harmonised nationally. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans.

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244