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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

When I started in emergency planning in the water industry, Anglian Water, who I was working for at the time, had no plans for dealing with a lack of water, contaminated water and sewage flooding incidents. When the London bombings occurred in 2007, the exact same recommendation was made in the report.

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

When I started in emergency planning in the water industry, Anglian Water, who I was working for at the time, had no plans for dealing with a lack of water, contaminated water and sewage flooding incidents. When the London bombings occurred in 2007, the exact same recommendation was made in the report.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

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). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Murphy, S., Murray 2020.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

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. It is important to ensure that emergency planning measures are balanced among society's and people's needs. McCaw 2007.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Reality: The imposition of martial law after disaster is extremely rare and implies that normal mechanisms of government were never effective in any way. Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Anomie and shortage of disaster governance. 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Australian Journal of Emergency Management 27(1): 27-33. Register 2007. However, two analyses (Escaleras et al.