Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? Viral pandemics can have impacts that are as significant in the socio-economic field as they are in epidemiology and viral medicine. Huge changes in the pattern of demand and supply will occur during a pandemic.

Pandemic 176

Pandemic Hospitality Logistics Authorization 176

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.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 130

CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Since then, the Province has been continually responding to large-scale disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 and 2023 floods and wildfires. In 2019, B.C.

Disaster Management 69

Disaster Management Risk Reduction Management Government 69

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.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

Security Industry Association

MARCH 29, 2021

The pandemic has depressed revenues for most companies, and in the near term, security budgets will remain constrained. The question, however, shouldn’t always be about cost reduction; it should be about risk reduction. What are your predictions for the security industry in the short and long term?

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Risk Reduction Security Management 52