Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

In the case of radioactive emission, it has been estimated that the top event could be 20 times greater than that of Chornobyl in 1986, which covered the entire continent with radioactivity. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

The role of emergency planning. The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. Since the start of Covid-19 we have seen the failure of emergency planning, which is an indication of failure to provide foresight.

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CCEM Strategies

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Insurance Bureau of Canada states that the insured damage of this event was $675 million. Files including contact information for your employees, key suppliers and customers, insurance and legal documents, and of course your emergency plan, should also be backed up digitally.

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CCEM Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Here’s what you need to know when preparing your emergency plan. Don’t forget to practice your evacuation route with drills to keep staff familiar with the course; these practice drills will prove valuable if, in the event of a real emergency, you need to evacuate in adverse weather or darkness.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 7, 2023

It’s May 7—the start of Emergency Preparedness (EP) Week. Running from May 7 to 13, 2023, EP Week is a national event coordinated by Public Safety Canada in collaboration with the provinces, territories, Indigenous organizations, non-governmental organizations and private sector organizations. Make a plan. The countdown is over!

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CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 9, 2023

In recent years, extreme heat events have become a growing concern here in Canada and around the world. Extreme heat events are periods of uncommonly high temperatures (often exceeding historical averages for a specific region) that last for an unusually long time.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

Here are four (4) steps your community can take: Review and enhance emergency plans Develop readiness with training and practice Establish and strengthen partnerships Remain vigilant by monitoring hazards and risks Review and Enhance Your Emergency Plans Your community already has emergency plans.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

The recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria , ice storms in Quebec and historic amount of snow in San Bernardino County, California are prime examples of the type of emergencies that have left people without support for days, even weeks.

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Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic. Planning is more a process than an outcome. No matter how large they are, all disasters are local events. It helps anticipate needs and therefore create the conditions in which preparations can be made to satisfy them.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 14, 2024

This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. After much pondering of the question, I have come to the conclusion that resilience is an illusion. However, the concept of resilience is, I think, suspect.

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everbridge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

School officials, at K-12 and college campuses, need to implement solutions that can help prevent or mitigate the impact of these events. Download now 5 ways to bolster school and campus safety Emergency plans Strategize with emergency plans and drills.

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National Fire Protection Association

MARCH 6, 2023

Sanctioned by the American Rally Association (ARA), this high-performance racing event pits roughly 50 two- and four-wheel-drive, road-legal cars against each other in a one-at-a-time race against the clock over approximately 120 miles of snow- and ice-covered forest roads.

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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. OSHA will expect no less.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

Public outcry often follows government failures to adequately prepare for known risks, resulting in mass casualty events. A example of this is the recommendation following the King’s Cross Fire of November 1987, where 31 people perished, highlighting the hampered emergency services response due to ineffective underground communication.

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CCEM Strategies

JULY 5, 2023

Emergency management responsibilities for business and critical infrastructure owners A large portion of emergency management responsibility falls on business owners—including critical infrastructure owners. Being prepared involves developing, regularly updating and practicing both your emergency plan and business continuity plan.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures. In the United Kingdom, the status of emergency planning has declined while it has been enhanced in other countries. In the UK emergency planners do not manage the events they plan for.

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

Inspired by the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years ago Francis Fukuyama wrote his treatise on The End of History (Fukuyama 1992). History, of course, continues to be made, both as events and as some form of human social development. One is that the shifting context pilots events.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 15, 2020

Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar and killed 136,000 of its citizens, in part because they had no role in creating resilience against such an event. Looking at the current British response to Covid-19, it is difficult to see quite where all that effort on pandemic emergency planning went.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Allow me to expand a bit… While most organizations we speak with have some level of emergency planning – basic natural disaster response plans, for example – far fewer are prepared to engage in the communications and operational maneuvering that accompanies a serious threat to reputation.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

The risk of flooding tends to change based on the season as it can be caused by snow melt, sudden and aggressive rain storms, rain on snow events, or debris in waterways causing overtopping of banks or sudden redirection of the waterway. Review the plans and think about how flooding might impact your community.

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Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

There is also a major cinema film about the disaster, with spirited performances by actors representing the main protagonists, including the engineers and geologists involved in planning and designing the reservoir and dam.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 3, 2023

There is no geographical dimension, which avoids the question of what size events are likely to be and whether certain parts of the country, and certain groups of citizens, would be most at risk. As risk is largely a function of vulnerability, this fact needed to be acknowledged, rather than concentrating entirely on hazards and threats.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 27, 2020

It was inspired by some thoughts expressed in 1967 by eminent sociologists of disaster on problems associated with researching transient events (Dynes et al. By common consent, disaster researchers rarely go to events in the early stage of the crisis. In the life-cycle of a disaster, when is it appropriate to do such research?

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Castellan

AUGUST 2, 2022

Half of the respondents to the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) 2022 Extreme Weather and Climate Report say their organization has experienced delays or disruptions acquiring key products because of the impact of climate-related events on the supply chain. It may also be helpful to have them develop a family emergency plan.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Therefore, for today’s bulletin, I will be sharing some of the highlights and my thoughts on the event. The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. For me, it felt very much like a ‘grown ups’ event.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Therefore, for today’s bulletin, I will be sharing some of the highlights and my thoughts on the event. The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. For me, it felt very much like a ‘grown ups’ event.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

There are three steps every organization should take ahead of time to ensure it can communicate effectively during an event: Prepare scripts for the four or five negative events that are most likely to happen. Identify and train the right spokespeople to comment to the media, speak on camera, and post to social media about the event.

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

Urban Resilience to Cold Rural and urban communities face distinct challenges when it comes to cold emergencies, and understanding these differences can help shed light on effective strategies for preparation and response. Understanding when and where extreme cold events are likely to occur will help to develop targeted response strategies.

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CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Transportation services facilitate emergency response In addition to transporting key supplies , resources and personnel and getting from A to B in the event of a disaster , transportation services also facilitate emergency response and recovery actions by first responders. When is the best time to prepare for emergencies?

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories.

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Security Industry Association

JUNE 22, 2022

This clearinghouse provides critical resources for implementing balanced, holistic school safety programs across a range of topics from mental health to school climate and emergency planning.

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CCEM Strategies

MARCH 17, 2023

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. And they also know how to work with CI teams.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This may or may not be derived from real events or legitimate interpretations of them. For many citizens, ‘reality’ has become a construct based on some degree of consensus about what is happening. I still believe in rational communication and objective reality.

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CCEM Strategies

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In the second article of this three-post blog series, we will explore Lockdown procedures to help you support your personnel and ensure the safest Lockdown approach is built into your emergency planning process. Examples of such events may include an active shooter, demonstration, disgruntled employee, or an intrusion.

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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. 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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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Therefore, for today’s bulletin, I will be sharing some of the highlights and my thoughts on the event. The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. For me, it felt very much like a ‘grown ups’ event.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business leaders typically develop emergency plans for dealing with ransomware attackers who only want ransoms paid—which usually means either paying the ransom or designing storage so that data can quickly be replaced. What to Know About Hacktivists, How They’re Evolving, and What You Can Do About It.

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