CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort. Especially vulnerable populations. In contrast, urban areas face their own set of challenges during cold emergencies. Understanding local risk profiles helps mitigate, prepare for, and respond to extreme cold emergencies.

Resilience 64

Resilience Transportation Vulnerability Telecommunications 64

Emergency Planning

MARCH 11, 2020

For example, civil aviation is particularly vulnerable. Thus, the vulnerability and fragility of people and society need to be seen in the light of socio-economic changes induced by the epidemic. It is important to ensure that emergency planning measures are balanced among society's and people's needs.

Pandemic 130

Pandemic Tourism Hospitality Transportation 130

CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

By analyzing factors such as topography, hydrology, and historical flood data, flood risk assessments can help communities identify areas that are most vulnerable to flooding. This information can then be used to develop effective flood preparedness plans and mitigation strategies, such as building dikes or improving drainage systems.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Hazard Natural Hazard Transportation 52

Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. When disaster strikes, these networks are capable of transmitting impacts through a variety of domains and system states, each of which produces different consequences.

Natural Hazard 199

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Entertainment Transportation 199

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. It is these that collapse.

Natural Hazard 183

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Fashion 183

CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

Emergency management plans must account for technology disruptions Computer data centres rely on electricity (and often water as well) to cool the components and prevent damage. This makes them highly vulnerable in the event of utility outages.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Outage Hazard Continuity Planning 52

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 65: Children and young people are too vulnerable to be exposed to the effects of disaster. Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises. Myth 31: Tsunamis are tidal waves.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for.

Outage 52

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for.

Outage 52

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. Back then, finding information on how to do anything in BC and IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) was impossible.

BCM 92

BCM All-Hazards Disaster Recovery Hazard 92

CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. s DRIPA, local governments are now required to consult and cooperate with neighbouring First Nations governments during all phases of emergency management. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s

Management 64

Management Capacity Strategic Risk Reduction 64

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (2nd edition). GAR Distilled. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 26 pp. Wisner, B., Blaikie, T. Cannon and I. Davis and 2004. Routledge, London, 496 pp.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for.

Outage 40

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 40

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Disaster is fundamentally a social phenomenon.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

everbridge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Download now 5 ways to bolster school and campus safety Emergency plans Strategize with emergency plans and drills. A resilient campus safety strategy starts with meticulously crafted emergency plans. Safety is an ongoing commitment that requires periodic evaluation and refinement.

Security 52

Security Emergency Planning Education Activation 52

Security Industry Association

JUNE 22, 2022

When other prevention efforts fail, measures that address security vulnerabilities can help deter, limit and enhance the response to school violence. 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.

Education 111

Education Vulnerability Security Emergency Planning 111

Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Emergency plans for loss of heat, electricity, fuel, and protection system impairments are necessary. DISASTER PLANNING MADE EASY IBHS has developed two easy-to-use tools to help small businesses develop a COVID-tailored business continuity plan and an emergency preparedness plan: OFB-EZ ® and EZ-PREP ®.

Capacity 59

Capacity Backup Vulnerability Pandemic 59

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this.

Vulnerability 40

Vulnerability Internet Malware Emergency Planning 40

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. Water industry 1995.

Vulnerability 40

Vulnerability Internet Business Continuity Malware 40

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

The purpose of this charter is to specify the responsibilities of the state and citizens in the field of resilience against disasters, crises and major public emergencies and incidents. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Preamble 1.1

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

Distribution of vulnerability. Plenty of evidence exists to show that disasters have a disproportionate impact upon poor and vulnerable people. The role of emergency planning. Since the start of Covid-19 we have seen the failure of emergency planning, which is an indication of failure to provide foresight.

Emergency Planning 130

Emergency Planning Pandemic Logistics Vulnerability 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130