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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

By 2020 it had forgotten or ignored most of the lessons, sold off or destroyed the equipment and drugs, and turned its attention firmly to lesser contingencies, despite the fact that pandemics consistently topped the list in the national risk register. Despite the obvious need for mitigation, emergency response capability cannot be neglected.

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Integrating Technology into Rapid Damage Assessment and Recovery

Disaster Zone Podcast

Melanie served as the Louisiana Incident Response Logistics Chief for her utility for several years, including the historic 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season in which five storms made landfall in Louisiana. This episode is sponsored by Unearth. This episode is sponsored by Unearth.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In March 2020, many emergency and incident response teams faced mandatory stay-at-home orders. In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable?

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PagerDuty Earns “Best Workplaces in the Bay Area” Recognition by Victoria Payne

PagerDuty

Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine have named PagerDuty one of this year’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area (we were certified as one of the best places to work in the United States in 2020 and 2021 ). PagerDuty enables the right response at the right moment. The award is based on an annual U.S. based company.

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What Happens When the Crisis Becomes a Marathon?

FEI

As one of many emergency response teams providing support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have just passed the six-month marker since we first activated to support our company and our stakeholders. 11 terrorist attacks, an emergency response typically has a very short timeframe, ranging from a few hours to several days.

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Expanding Critical Services with the PagerDuty Operations Cloud by debbie

PagerDuty

With the goal of transforming emergency response networks in global communities, the company relies on the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to ensure its internal response systems remain up and running, and its users maintain critical response services. PagerDuty was a fantastic solution for us,” said Friesen., “It

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Risk Assessment – Is it worth the time and effort?

Stratogrid Advisory

Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 3 minutes Should your organization execute a Risk Assessment? Correctly determining the risks facing your organization is the cornerstone of creating relevant business continuity plans, IT disaster recovery plans , emergency response and any other incident or crisis-related plans.