Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Emergency management is still languishing in the doldrums in the United Kingdom.

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

As you can see, rally racing is markedly different from track racing, and three important characteristics introduce special challenges for emergency planning, training, personnel, and equipment. Excessive emergency response times and travel distances can be a significant issue as well.

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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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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In the case of coronavirus, the medical profession has taken control of the agenda, yet most of the failings--and there are many--refer to civil protection issues: communications, logistics, coordination. Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 11, 2020

Therefore, the world community must take action immediately." difficulties associated with procuring reliable, intelligible information being in the wrong place at the wrong time general uncertainty in the evolution of the epidemic These, then, are the possible building blocks of scenarios that could be used for future planning.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 26, 2020

Hospital beds, medical staff, personal protective equipment, ventilators, vaccines, antivirals, palliative medicines, economic subsidies, payment for holidays, substitute wages, organised assistance, the policing of social distancing, the reorganisation of public transport and basic services, emergency communication, they are all being improvised.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 13, 2023

Beyond the exhilarating matches and roaring crowds, a critical aspect of hosting such a massive event is ensuring the safety and security of players, officials, fans, and host communities. There are multiple unique challenges for emergency planners when it comes to hosting global major events.

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. It can also mean communication over very long distances, leading to the adoption of common agendas among disparate groups of people.

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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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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

Anticipate Compounding Impacts on Critical Infrastructure: Cold weather can disrupt power grids, transportation, communication networks, and other critical infrastructure, which causes compounding impacts. Raise awareness about cold-weather risks and provide practical tips to increase resilience at the individual level.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

Communities (First Nations, Towns, Villages, Districts, Counties, etc.) 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.

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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.

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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. Keep it simple.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 23, 2021

In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about why determining an accurate location during an emergency is important, and how you can incorporate this into your emergency plan. When communicating grid references during operations, you had to make sure you double-checked and that they were received correctly.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 23, 2021

In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about why determining an accurate location during an emergency is important, and how you can incorporate this into your emergency plan. When communicating grid references during operations, you had to make sure you double-checked and that they were received correctly.

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CCEM Strategies

MARCH 17, 2023

The ten sectors of CI CI includes vital assets and systems such as food supply, electricity grids, transportation, communications, public safety systems and more.

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 5, 2019

Writing is our craft and our main means of communicating our ideas. Good writing can be judged by whether or not it is good communication. As they have never followed my advice, perhaps I am not communicating well enough. Language is communication. Colette We must all learn to write. But let us not be deterred.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 17, 2015

In reading the report, one of the things that struck me was the number of communication failures during the response. This should not surprise us, as almost every incident report or exercise report highlights failures in communication as one of their key learning points.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 17, 2015

In reading the report, one of the things that struck me was the number of communication failures during the response. This should not surprise us, as almost every incident report or exercise report highlights failures in communication as one of their key learning points.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2019

The next thing she said happened was that the cabin crew got their own breathing apparatus on but didn’t communicate anything, so everyone in the cabin looked at each other, wondering what was going on. I was told that after the event, BA’s response was woeful, and the post-event communications were almost non-existent.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2019

The next thing she said happened was that the cabin crew got their own breathing apparatus on but didn’t communicate anything, so everyone in the cabin looked at each other, wondering what was going on. I was told that after the event, BA’s response was woeful, and the post-event communications were almost non-existent.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. Prepare My Business for an Emergency. Another excellent DHS website.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises. Reality: It might, but much depends on the activation of the plan, including dissemination, awareness, training, the availability of resources, and familiarity with emergency procedures. Myth 69: When given a warning, people flee from an area.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I had the task, as the Emergency Planning Manager, to conduct a debrief of a multi-agency water contamination exercise involving the Local CCDC (doctor responsible for outbreaks in the local area), the Local Authority, a hospital and various people from Anglian Water. It is in use in the UK by many in the emergency planning fraternity.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I had the task, as the Emergency Planning Manager, to conduct a debrief of a multi-agency water contamination exercise involving the Local CCDC (doctor responsible for outbreaks in the local area), the Local Authority, a hospital and various people from Anglian Water. It is in use in the UK by many in the emergency planning fraternity.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

The two I know of, although a little old, are those produced by the Emergency Planning Society and Skills for Justice. To be able to recall the importance of communications during an incident and be able to construct a communications matrix for a given scenario. Demonstrate familiarity with all sections of their plan.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

The two I know of, although a little old, are those produced by the Emergency Planning Society and Skills for Justice. To be able to recall the importance of communications during an incident and be able to construct a communications matrix for a given scenario. Demonstrate familiarity with all sections of their plan.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Why did they not anticipate this as a possibility and put in place a contingency plan, which they could have on the shelf ready for the moment if it was needed? There didn’t seem to be a plan for the implementation of this or the appropriate communications ready. The closedown of schools after Christmas is an example of this.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Why did they not anticipate this as a possibility and put in place a contingency plan, which they could have on the shelf ready for the moment if it was needed? This seems to be a theme from the government, in that there has been little future contingency planning for events which can possibly be foreseen.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room. They should be short sharp meetings so that there is time to have conversations, communicate with stakeholders and carry out actions between meetings.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room. They should be short sharp meetings so that there is time to have conversations, communicate with stakeholders and carry out actions between meetings.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room. They should be short sharp meetings so that there is time to have conversations, communicate with stakeholders and carry out actions between meetings.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room. They should be short sharp meetings so that there is time to have conversations, communicate with stakeholders and carry out actions between meetings.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

I attended the Emergency Planning Society weekly huddle, which is an opportunity for those responding to coronavirus to express their thoughts and ideas and support one another. Relaxing, failure to manage closely and poor communication with stakeholders may destroy the good work you have done to date.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

I attended the Emergency Planning Society weekly huddle, which is an opportunity for those responding to coronavirus to express their thoughts and ideas and support one another. Relaxing, failure to manage closely and poor communication with stakeholders may destroy the good work you have done to date.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room. They should be short sharp meetings so that there is time to have conversations, communicate with stakeholders and carry out actions between meetings.

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