Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This week I share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. Next door to the CIR was a room where the crisis management team met, but this was not a dedicated space, it just took over one of the meeting rooms.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

NFPA has a wealth of information to help guide building owners and facility managers, first responders, health care facility managers, electrical professionals, and public educators, as they prepare ahead of weather events in their area and work closely with communities to develop emergency plans.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2023

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Communicate, train on, and test the plan.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

NFPA® has a wealth of information to help guide building owners and facility managers, first responders, health care facility managers, electrical professionals, and public educators, as they prepare ahead of weather events in their area and work closely with communities to develop emergency plans.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. Contains links to toolkits for preparing for different hazards as well as pages on Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Incident Management, IT/DR, and much more.

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Castellan

AUGUST 2, 2022

Inform employees, vendors, partners, and key stakeholders of their specific responsibilities based on your disaster response plans. Establish a primary and alternate means of communicating with your employees, critical vendors, business partners, key stakeholders, and customers. Get The Crisis Management Plan Template.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. We’ve written a lot about crisis communications over the years.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

There are some competency standards out there for management of incidents. The two I know of, although a little old, are those produced by the Emergency Planning Society and Skills for Justice. I have failed so far to find a really good set of ‘official’ competencies for those who have a role in an incident management team.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

There are some competency standards out there for management of incidents. The two I know of, although a little old, are those produced by the Emergency Planning Society and Skills for Justice. I have failed so far to find a really good set of ‘official’ competencies for those who have a role in an incident management team.

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everbridge

APRIL 29, 2022

How then, can organizations be prepared for emergencies and critical events? This is where the leadership skills of emergency managers come into play. Seven Essential Skills for Effective Crisis Management. Communication. Instead, emergency response leaders will need to turn to plan B.

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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. ACT – Take quick and decisive action to mitigate or eliminate the impact of a threat.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 2, 2021

Has your organization ever dropped the ball in responding to a crisis, thus making a bad situation worse? In today’s post, we’re going to look at six of the most … The post Dropping the Ball: 6 Common Crisis Response Mistakes appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

It has t aken four to five weeks for SEPA to get their communications and messages sorted out. The list of priorities has now been written, which is guiding their response and has replaced the nonsensical ones from their earlier communications. Even with the improvements in communication, there are still a number of issues.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

It has t aken four to five weeks for SEPA to get their communications and messages sorted out. The list of priorities has now been written, which is guiding their response and has replaced the nonsensical ones from their earlier communications. Even with the improvements in communication, there are still a number of issues.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Arbitrary rule is, of course, nothing new, but what is new is the role of networked electronic communication. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Charlie looks at Timothy Coombs’ ‘Situational Crisis Communications Theory’ and how you can develop a crisis response strategy from it. For many years I have slightly shied away from crisis communications.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Charlie looks at Timothy Coombs’ ‘Situational Crisis Communications Theory’ and how you can develop a crisis response strategy from it. For many years I have slightly shied away from crisis communications.

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