Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Resilience Strategic Emergency Planning 52

Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Resilience Strategic Emergency Planning 52

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This week I share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

Crisis Management 52

Crisis Management Management Banking Emergency Planning 52

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This week I share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

Crisis Management 52

Crisis Management Management Banking Emergency Planning 52

Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A while ago I was the Emergency Planning Manager for a large company, as they had many international travellers, travelling to all parts of the world. Part of my role was to make sure that we were ready to respond if staff were kidnapped.

Travel 52

Travel Fashion Emergency Planning Banking 52

Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A while ago I was the Emergency Planning Manager for a large company, as they had many international travellers, travelling to all parts of the world. Part of my role was to make sure that we were ready to respond if staff were kidnapped.

Travel 52

Travel Fashion Emergency Planning Banking 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

With this in mind, I am going to share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room.

Crisis Management 40

Crisis Management Management Banking Business Continuity 40

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This week I share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

Crisis Management 40

Crisis Management Management Banking Emergency Planning 40

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I had the task, as the Emergency Planning Manager, to conduct a debrief of a multi-agency water contamination exercise involving the Local CCDC (doctor responsible for outbreaks in the local area), the Local Authority, a hospital and various people from Anglian Water. A long time ago I was involved in the water industry.

Emergency Planning 52

Emergency Planning Hospitality Communications Authorization 52

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I had the task, as the Emergency Planning Manager, to conduct a debrief of a multi-agency water contamination exercise involving the Local CCDC (doctor responsible for outbreaks in the local area), the Local Authority, a hospital and various people from Anglian Water. A long time ago I was involved in the water industry.

Emergency Planning 52

Emergency Planning Hospitality Communications Authorization 52

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

One of my jobs as Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, as soon as a major incident occurred, was to find staff members to fill all the shifts at the incident room. Secondly if staff work long hours, they may suffer fatigue, make poor decisions and not be actually contributing to the recovery.

Travel 52

Travel Emergency Planning Business Continuity Plan Management 52

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

One of my jobs as Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, as soon as a major incident occurred, was to find staff members to fill all the shifts at the incident room. Secondly if staff work long hours, they may suffer fatigue, make poor decisions and not be actually contributing to the recovery.

Travel 52

Travel Emergency Planning Business Continuity Plan Management 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

Water industry 1995 The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. During the interview, they talked about telemetry.

Vulnerability 40

Vulnerability Internet Malware Emergency Planning 40

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. 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 Business Continuity Malware 40

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

Local mayors or chief executives should have a primary role in ensuring that arrangements are in place for emergency planning, management and response. The central government must ensure that resources are adequate to respond to the kinds and levels of emergency that are envisaged in planning scenarios.

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This list was taken from ‘Ongoing Crisis Communication: Planning, Managing, and Responding’ by W Timothy Coombs. The option of silence and to say nothing is not on Coombs’ list, but instead he focuses on having a response prepared in case a story breaks and a response is needed.

Communications 40

Communications Media Crisis Management Airlines 40

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This list was taken from ‘Ongoing Crisis Communication: Planning, Managing, and Responding’ by W Timothy Coombs. The option of silence and to say nothing is not on Coombs’ list, but instead he focuses on having a response prepared in case a story breaks and a response is needed.

Communications 40

Communications Media Crisis Management Airlines 40