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How to Improve Emergency Management Training with Gamification

Business Continuity Today

Emergency response exercises often have a high degree of interaction between the elements that have to be learned. The limitations which are most relevant regarding learning in emergency response exercises are the observer’s cognitive limitations and the (limited) type of data that is being gathered.

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How to Improve Emergency Management Training with Gamification

Business Continuity Today

Emergency response exercises often have a high degree of interaction between the elements that have to be learned. The limitations which are most relevant regarding learning in emergency response exercises are the observer’s cognitive limitations and the (limited) type of data that is being gathered.

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PLANNING FOR AN EMERGENCY? DON'T FORGET YOUR VOLUNTEERS

CCEM Strategies

The presentation focused on the different types of volunteers that can emerge during an oil spill (affiliated, spontaneous and micro), and how they can be integrated into response planning. This was true in the 2011 Fukushima earthquake in Japan , the 2013 Calgary floods , and the 2016 marine spill in Bella Bella, BC.