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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. A ‘major incident’ is an adverse impact that requires immediate attention from emergency services and a switch from normal to emergency working patterns. Plans should be networked.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

One of these is emergency planning, the process of anticipating needs caused by disaster impacts and making arrangements to satisfy them as well as possible with available resources. Come what may, emergency management is a human activity that requires human input and human reasoning.

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How to use your notification system during hurricanes

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During a hurricane Response team and Emergency Operations Center activation. Notify and assemble emergency response teams. Emergency operations directives. Enact emergency plans and policies. Manage volunteer availability and coordinate field activities. Attach documents as needed.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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Can we stop the rot in academia?

Emergency Planning

Those who make the transition from intellectual activity to administration are precipitated into a system that enthusiastically applies principles and techniques that were tried out in business half a century ago and rapidly abandoned because they failed to improve the performance of companies.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

Most striking is the abyss between plans and the ability to implement them with emergency response measures. In the United Kingdom, the status of emergency planning has declined while it has been enhanced in other countries. A gulf has therefore developed between plans and the ability to activate them.

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Covid-19: An Address

Emergency Planning

With regard to preparedness, emergency response consists of planned activities, standardised procedures and improvisation. Too much of the last of these is tantamount to negligence, because it shows up the lack of planning and preparedness. Social participation is about the democratisation of emergency response.

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