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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

This coordinated response not only allowed for planning discussions to occur but also for team members to provide quick check-ins on their stress. When the COVID-19 pandemic was initially identified as a crisis, our emergency and incident response teams were functioning in their usual brick-and-mortal locations.

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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

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. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. It wasn’t just small business that took a major hit during the pandemic. And continue to test your emergency response plan. Because it’s difficult to predict when a crisis will strike, it helps to be prepared.

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7 Skills Leaders Must Master for Effective Response to Critical Events

everbridge

Even the best emergency response plan, however, stands little chance of being successful if the members of the leadership team orchestrating the company’s response are ill equipped to manage a coordinated response. Emergency response planning is crucial, but even the most robust plan can’t cover all situations.

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Reflections on Providing Operational Support During a Crisis

FEI

As an operations specialist with FEI’s crisis management team, I assist our customers by integrating our crisis support services into their business continuity planning. Preventing a crisis is always best but not always possible. These include: Emergency notifications. COVID-19 is the perfect example.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

An integrated critical event management (CEM) platform can help crisis management teams successfully communicate with their people during a severe weather event. A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity.

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What Happens When the Crisis Becomes a Marathon?

FEI

As one of many emergency response teams providing support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have just passed the six-month marker since we first activated to support our company and our stakeholders. 11 terrorist attacks, an emergency response typically has a very short timeframe, ranging from a few hours to several days.