CCEM Strategies

JUNE 13, 2018

Public perception often places government at the core of emergency management and planning. And while this is largely true, it doesn’t necessarily represent the full picture of emergency preparedness in Canada. Additional Emergency Preparedness Resource - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This week I discuss the importance of contingency planning. The news this morning was that the government is going to take 10 days to implement its plan for all incoming non-British travellers to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days. We were rolling out business continuity plans for their parcel operation.

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CCEM Strategies

MARCH 27, 2018

Now that the Canadian government has launched Alert Ready - Canada’s National Public Alerting System, it’s important to consider how this affects your business’ emergency plans , and how to modify them moving forward. Looking for more emergency management tips?

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

Review and Enhance Flood Plans Your community already has emergency plans, and you may even have flood-specific plans. Review the plans and think about how flooding might impact your community. Need Help with Risk Assessments, Planning and/or Engagement?

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example: Risk assessments and emergency and business continuity plans now need to consider Indigenous knowledge, climate change, cultural safety, and impacts on vulnerable persons, animals, places or things. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. There were all the senior members of the government organisations, plus the seniors and salespeople from the vendors. For me, it felt very much like a ‘grown ups’ event.

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CCEM Strategies

JULY 24, 2018

CI Defined Public Safety Canada defines critical infrastructure as the “processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government.” CI can be stand-alone, or cross provincial or national borders.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. There were all the senior members of the government organisations, plus the seniors and salespeople from the vendors. For me, it felt very much like a ‘grown ups’ event.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Reality: The imposition of martial law after disaster is extremely rare and implies that normal mechanisms of government were never effective in any way. Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 47: Business continuity management only applies to the private sector.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

In a similar way, the Wetherspoons Chairman Tim Martin, sent a video message to staff to say they would not be paid after that Friday while the company works out details of a furlough scheme under which the government will pay 80% of wages. He advised them to get a job at Tesco in the meantime.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

In a similar way, the Wetherspoons Chairman Tim Martin, sent a video message to staff to say they would not be paid after that Friday while the company works out details of a furlough scheme under which the government will pay 80% of wages. He advised them to get a job at Tesco in the meantime.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

During these kinds of severe weather events, Governments, multilateral donors, and business executives alike have a responsibility, whether moral or legal, to respond effectively and efficiently in order to protect people, assets, and facilities from harm. They are investing in data collection from spatial and hyper-local data.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

Protecting Your Brand In writing business continuity plans, BC and crisis management teams need to think about how to protect their organization’s brand, one of its most valuable assets. Include brand protection in your crisis management plan. Devise policies governing staff social media use. “In

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CCEM Strategies

JULY 5, 2023

While it may seem obvious that government is responsible for emergency management and planning, this perception doesn’t show the full picture. Emergency management responsibilities are shared by local and provincial governments, First Nations, critical infrastructure, businesses and individual citizens.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

” moment, SEPA has done the whole of the Scottish Government sector a favour by not paying the ransom. Ransomware gangs have had quite a lot of success with attacks on local government in the USA, where a number of ransoms have been paid for the quick restoration of their systems. We’ll just set aboot ye.”

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

The UK has spent a lot of money on flood defences nevertheless, every year, a town or a village gets flooded, and we’ll see pictures of ruined houses, businesses and people throwing their possessions in a skip as they have been contaminated by floodwater.

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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.

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