Emergency Planning
MARCH 3, 2025
He then outlined in perfect detail exactly what would happen during a viral pandemic, including the medical, economic, social, behavioural and psychological consequences. I taught pandemic preparedness on the basis of his example for the next 12 years. Then it came to pass.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 11, 2020
It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. That was at a time when an influenza pandemic with devastating consequences was greatly feared.
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Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. Caffrey 2005. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al. Masri, R.L. Nigbor and J.P.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 15, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic ought to teach us the importance of both preparedness and social participation. The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. There was a period in the decade of the 2000s and early 2010s in which pandemics were the focus of emergency planners' attention. That is a sobering lesson.
BryghtPath
AUGUST 11, 2021
After a pandemic year like 2020—and 2021—executives get the importance of business continuity planning. The situation was the same in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. And in 2012, after Hurricane Sandy. And after mass shooting incidents. Management has a heightened sense of why business continuity is necessary. Then, the memories fade.
Security Industry Association
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Actually, my career started with a company Boon Edam acquired in 2005 – it was another physical security entrance company that was a manufacturer of security turnstiles. About six months later, the global pandemic hit, and I always tell everybody that if I had known that was coming, I might not have taken the role.
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