Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 130

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Billions will have to be spent on making the country's infrastructure more resilient against this sort of event. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. Emergency planning is a vital occupation.

Management 231

Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation 231

Emergency Planning

MARCH 15, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic ought to teach us the importance of both preparedness and social participation. With regard to preparedness, emergency response consists of planned activities, standardised procedures and improvisation. However, it is not exactly easy to organise an alternative system in the thick of the emergency.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack. Myth 36: In a biological terrorism attack or pandemic prophylaxis will be effective and efficient. Myth 38: The main effects of a CBRN attack or pandemic would necessarily be medical. Myth 62: Pandemic influenza is almost exclusively a medical problem.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.

BCM 92

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 9, 2020

Disaster gold rushes, sophisms and academic neocolonialism: comments on ‘Earthquake disasters and resilience in the global North’. Huge Covid-19 output prompting ‘sea change’ in access to research. Times Higher Education , April 9, 2020. Geographical Journal 179(3): 272-277. Gaillard, J-C. Gomez 2015.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

I aim to cover what incidents might look like, how the business continuity process might change, how resilience might develop and how the role of the business continuity manager could change. In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age.

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