CCEM Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Here’s what you need to know when preparing your emergency plan. These are just a few of the planning elements to include in your emergency plan for responding to a tsunami warning. Contact us for customized emergency management and business continuity planning Preparing your business for disaster is critical.

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the face of escalating climate-related emergencies, the Province of B.C.’s s recent allocation of $18 million for Indigenous engagement is a critical opportunity for communities to increase preparedness through consultation and collaboration and meet new emergency management legislative requirements.

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Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management? Under such circumstances, disaster risk management is vitally important, especially as one is dealing with a medical emergency and a social, economic and psychological one. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

The Role of Communities in Wildfire Season Wildfire management is complex, especially when the seasonal severity is high. Review the plans and think about how wildfire might impact your community. Requesting and/or providing resources and mutual aid As you review, look for places to enhance the plans and procedures.

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CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Transportation plays a key and invaluable role for company operations and is a vital element of emergency management. By considering transportation in your risk assessment and planning for transportation impacts in advance, companies can apply solutions proactively rather than reacting to disaster events. And CCEM can help.

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Business Continuity Today

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the most common complaints that I have heard over the years from emergency and business continuity managers is they cannot get their executives to participate in emergency drills and exercises. It is hard for EM and BC managers to get the buy-in from the midlevel managers if the top does not participate.

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Business Continuity Today

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the most common complaints that I have heard over the years from emergency and business continuity managers is they cannot get their executives to participate in emergency drills and exercises. It is hard for EM and BC managers to get the buy-in from the midlevel managers if the top does not participate.

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BCM METRICS

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.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 7, 2023

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. Encourage management to promote and participate in these activities too.

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BryghtPath

DECEMBER 9, 2021

You’ve settled on a crisis management framework to understand your goals in creating a crisis management plan. You’ve written your plan. I can’t stress enough how important it is for you to exercise that plan.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 31, 2021

Make emergency planning and management a key profession: develop it nationally. We do have the foresight to anticipate what comes next: what we lack is the leadership to do something about it. I say to leaders, it is absolutely necessary that you be radical.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Why, then, is it so common to encounter major brands with national reputations…and no reputation management planning to speak of? Reputation is any organization’s most valuable asset, therefore crisis management should be looked at as a critical form of asset protection. Is my plan complete? So, where do you start?

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Alert Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

An emergency plan for earthquake disasters will determine how quickly you will recover. Learn from companies that faced the Noto earthquake.

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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

The current system for managing major incidents and disasters in the United Kingdom was devised after the Broadwater Farm, Tottenham, riots of 1986 and reflects a preoccupation with public order. In the world as a whole, there has been a gradual process of demilitarisation of emergency response. Moreover, it is inclusive.

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CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 24, 2023

So how do you include and plan for all types of volunteers in your emergency management plans? How to prepare for a surge of volunteer types Each volunteer type will require a different management approach—and all can be equally important in a response. Which type (i.e., Who’ll be in charge?

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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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CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 9, 2023

Steps to Build Resilience to Extreme Heat in Your Community Emergency managers, policymakers, planners, and community leaders play an important role in helping to build resilience to extreme heat in their communities. Need Help with Risk Assessments, Heat Mapping, Response Planning, or Engagement?

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

With most organisations adopting hybrid working, it is becoming more likely that incidents will be managed by a combination of people in the office and those at home. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

With most organisations adopting hybrid working, it is becoming more likely that incidents will be managed by a combination of people in the office and those at home. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

With most organisations adopting hybrid working, it is becoming more likely that incidents will be managed by a combination of people in the office and those at home. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

With most organisations adopting hybrid working, it is becoming more likely that incidents will be managed by a combination of people in the office and those at home. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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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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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.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

With most organisations adopting hybrid working, it is becoming more likely that incidents will be managed by a combination of people in the office and those at home. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Here’s what you need to know when preparing your emergency plan: 1. These are just a few of the planning elements to include in your emergency plan for responding to a tsunami warning. This three-part series — Preparing Coastal Businesse s — will cover earthquakes, floods and tsunamis. Stay tuned!

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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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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

With most organisations adopting hybrid working, it is becoming more likely that incidents will be managed by a combination of people in the office and those at home. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 11, 2020

are crises which have to be managed simultaneously at several levels, from international to local. However, this depends on whether companies manage to remain solvent during and after the crisis. It is important to ensure that emergency planning measures are balanced among society's and people's needs.

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Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Standards of management are generally very poor in the university and college world. Most academic staff are hired on the basis of their reputations as researchers or teachers, not for their skills in managing departments, faculties or entire institutions. This means that management and the front-line staff need to agree on priorities.

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Business Continuity Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

If we as a collective learned anything in 2020, it is that we cannot assume that our year will turn out as planned. The trick is, how do we manage change, and how to we plan for the pivot. As business continuity, emergency, and crisis managers, it is our job to plan for and expect the need for our organization to pivot.

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Business Continuity Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

If we as a collective learned anything in 2020, it is that we cannot assume that our year will turn out as planned. The trick is, how do we manage change, and how to we plan for the pivot. As business continuity, emergency, and crisis managers, it is our job to plan for and expect the need for our organization to pivot.

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Business Continuity Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

If we as a collective learned anything in 2020, it is that we cannot assume that our year will turn out as planned. The trick is, how do we manage change, and how to we plan for the pivot. As business continuity, emergency, and crisis managers, it is our job to plan for and expect the need for our organization to pivot.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 29, 2023

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation.

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National Fire Protection Association

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Ensure that you have a site plan outlining what is at your location and your emergency plans, and ensure those who could be affected by chemicals are properly trained. When planning, make sure to check out NFPA 1660, Standard for Emergency, Continuity, and Crisis Management: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.

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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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