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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. Emergency planning is a vital occupation.

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An Old Threat Returns

Plan B Consulting

Luckily nobody was hurt, and transport was not disrupted. When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle.

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An Old Threat Returns

Plan B Consulting

Luckily nobody was hurt, and transport was not disrupted. When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle.