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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

It is fully documented in many reliable publications. These root causes are also well documented. There have recently been some natural hazard events of extraordinary size and power, but they are no more than curtain raisers. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent.

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7 Best Practices for Emergency Managers

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By recognizing that hazards, including severe weather events, are unpredictable and cannot be completely prevented, emergency managers can instead focus their efforts on promoting a resilient organization. Preparing for hazards can involve planning and training with departments, jurisdictions, agencies, and community members.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. In these countries responsibility for coordinating local emergency actions is delegated to the regions.

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Ensuring workplace safety through Senate Bill 553 compliance with Everbridge

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Under SB 553, California employers must conduct risk assessments to identify potential hazards and implement measures to mitigate them. Our mass notification system allows for quick dissemination of alerts to employees, security, and management, ensuring rapid response to potential or actual violent situations.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

In both documents, I and a number of others are pushing the concept that there should be scenario-specific plans, at a crisis or strategic level. Ranging from emergency response plans for a particular hazard onsite, to plans of how an office-based department will move to a work area recovery location or to another office.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

In both documents, I and a number of others are pushing the concept that there should be scenario-specific plans, at a crisis or strategic level. Ranging from emergency response plans for a particular hazard onsite, to plans of how an office-based department will move to a work area recovery location or to another office.

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Transforming Disaster Management: The Promise and Challenges of AI in Wildfire Damage Assessment

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This collaborative effort involves teams from State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT) government, along with federal officials, documenting the total number of residences impacted and further categorizing these residences as having been destroyed, experiencing major or minor damage, or merely being affected.