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It’s Emergency Preparedness Week. Are you prepared for disaster?

CCEM Strategies

EP Week is a reminder for us to be prepared for any type of emergency and encourages everyone to take these three simple steps : Know the risks. Make a plan. Get, or build, an emergency kit. And don’t forget that evaluating your emergency policies and procedures is also essential.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey. To know whether a reinforced concrete building is safe to live in would require knowledge of:- the shear resistance (i.e.,

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ALERT READY: TIPS TO PREPARE YOUR BUSINESS FOR THE NATIONAL PUBLIC ALERTING SYSTEM

CCEM Strategies

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. Now that you have the steps to re-evaluate your existing emergency plans, it’s time to put them to the test!

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

Provincial and local authorities are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their regions and together, they work to create and test emergency plans that will ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, long before an incident occurs.

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A man walks into a room

Emergency Planning

Rather than courses on how to use technology, or how to get a well-paying job, perhaps we need instruction on how to look, listen and evaluate. One thing we could do is to reverse the trend. Our man struggled to find the deeper meaning in things.

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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

Plan B Consulting

Other papers have put forward the idea that people base their experience of an event on the most intense part and how it ended, for both good and bad experiences, rather than evaluate the event as a whole. People on the call were saying that they were beginning to move from the ‘response’ phase to the ‘recovery’ phase of the incident.

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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

Plan B Consulting

Other papers have put forward the idea that people base their experience of an event on the most intense part and how it ended, for both good and bad experiences, rather than evaluate the event as a whole. People on the call were saying that they were beginning to move from the ‘response’ phase to the ‘recovery’ phase of the incident.