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7 Best Practices for Emergency Managers

everbridge

To help you better understand how to promote resilience in your organization, Everbridge hosted a 4-part webinar series focused on the phases of emergency management: Mitigation , Preparedness , Response , and Recovery. Many of us emergency management professionals know the cycle is continuous.

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

Ensuring Canada’s Critical Infrastructure system is ready and resilient Can you imagine what would happen if an incident such as a natural disaster compromised our transportation, food or even energy Critical Infrastructure (CI) systems? In November 2021, British Columbians didn’t have to.

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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. The bureaucratic approach Emphasis is quite rightly placed on mitigating these impacts and preparing to adapt our lives and livelihoods to climate change. Apocalypse How? Technology and the Threat of Disaster.

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Critical infrastructure is under attack

everbridge

The critical infrastructure sectors can vary slightly depending on the country or organization defining them, but generally, they include power grids, water treatment facilities, transportation networks, communication systems, financial institutions, and other critical facilities.

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Business Continuity – The Future?

Plan B Consulting

So, for our business continuity managers there are lots of threats to plan for, mitigate and prepare the organisation’s response to. Many organisations, especially those in oil and gas, manufacturing and transport industries, have emergency response plans in place.

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Business Continuity – The Future?

Plan B Consulting

So, for our business continuity managers there are lots of threats to plan for, mitigate and prepare the organisation’s response to. Many organisations, especially those in oil and gas, manufacturing and transport industries, have emergency response plans in place.

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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. Reality: There are so many potential pathogens, agents and isotopes that high-level laboratory analysis way be needed, which would cause problems of transportation of samples and rapidity of analyses.