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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

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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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

Rapid and effective emergency communication during severe weather is key to providing real-time safety information to employees and customers. They are responsible for ensuring public safety, emergency response, and timely community awareness. Hurricane Preparedness on Campus. How to Prepare Your Business for a Hurricane.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. This may involve deploying field hospitals and using the resources of military medicine. Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. And continue to test your emergency response plan. One of their biggest concerns is how to effectively recover from their loss of staff during COVID-19. It wasn’t just small business that took a major hit during the pandemic.

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Technology in Turkey: Supporting Growth and Innovation

Pure Storage

Transform the National Ambulance Services of Turkey’s systems for faster emergency response in 81 cities. Assist the two biggest private hospitals in Turkey to manage their transformation into COVID-care centers. Help the Turkish Postal Service boost distribution efforts .

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Practicing Emergency Preparedness

Alert Media

The exercise participants responded to a dispatch call of an incident that involved the widely used agricultural product, anhydrous ammonia” This is a great example of applying an emergency situation relevant to an industry and preparing a response plan.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Myth 39: In a CBRN attack or pandemic it will be easy to avoid contamination of hospitals and other medical centres.