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Oregon State Resilience Officer

Disaster Zone Podcast

13 states have either a State Resilience Officer or a Chief Resilience Officer. In this podcast we have an interview with Mike Harryman, State Resilience Officer for the State of Oregon. Those topics and more are covered in this engaging discussion with a national leader in disaster resilience policy.

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Unlocking effective emergency response

everbridge

Notify : Ensure on-site security is aware of the emergency, where it is located in the building or campus, and whether they can provide additional help to the emergency caller or first responders upon arrival. The post Unlocking effective emergency response appeared first on Everbridge.

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Oregon State Office of Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

Oregon Emergency Management is undergoing a major transition from being a division of the Oregon National Guard to now being a Department of Emergency Management reporting directly to the Governor of Oregon. Andrew Phelps, Director of Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management is the guest for this podcast.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In March 2020, many emergency and incident response teams faced mandatory stay-at-home orders. In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable?

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Three Years Later--What did we learn from COVID?

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we explore the challenges that we faced collectively and then in particular for public health and the rest of the emergency management community who responded. Dynamis , a leading provider of information management software and security solutions, is a sponsor of this podcast.

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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. Billions will have to be spent on making the country's infrastructure more resilient against this sort of event.

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Business Continuity and ‘Emergency Response’

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at the relationship between business continuity and emergency response. Thrown into the mix is the new buzz word of the moment, resilience, and there is much debate on what it is and how it fits with business continuity. All we need to do is exercise them and keep them up to date.