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 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.
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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.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
JANUARY 19, 2022
Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.
Plan B Consulting
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
The possibility of a global pandemic a few years ago prompted many of us to look more closely at how we would operate with a reduced number of staff. The flu pandemic when it came, a bit like the ‘millennium bug’, was not as bad as the doom-mongers prophesised. A strike is slightly different in terms of people planning.
Plan B Consulting
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
The possibility of a global pandemic a few years ago prompted many of us to look more closely at how we would operate with a reduced number of staff. The flu pandemic when it came, a bit like the ‘millennium bug’, was not as bad as the doom-mongers prophesised. A strike is slightly different in terms of people planning.
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