CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

Summer is not without its share of hazards due to the hot weather. From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Outage Hazard Continuity Planning 52

CCEM Strategies

JULY 24, 2018

But what is CI, and how can it endure and function during, and after an emergency event? This is because, long before an incident occurs, CI operators work with governments to create and test emergency plans to ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, to deal with unforeseen disruptions.

Resilience 52

Resilience All-Hazards Hazard Authorization 52

CCEM Strategies

MARCH 17, 2023

Public Safety Canada defines CI as the processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government. Each emergency has unique, complicating factors that determine how a response is managed.

Resilience 52

Resilience All-Hazards Hazard Transportation 52

CCEM Strategies

MAY 30, 2018

Literally, every organization in the world that provides a product or service, interacts with customers or community members, or generally, you know, exists at the whim of others, must have a business continuity plan in place. Having a business continuity plan ensures your critical services and functions are delivered during an incident.

Continuity Planning 52

Continuity Planning Business Continuity BCP All-Hazards 52

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What does all this mean for Britain? If we look at major emergencies in the UK over the last 25 years or so, there have been significant deficiencies in the response in just about every case. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.

Management 231

Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation 231

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology. d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (d) d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286. Krausmann, E., Girgin and A. Necci 2019.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard. Not all useful resources that existed in the area before the disaster will be destroyed. Myth 27: In order to manage a disaster well it is necessary to accept all forms of aid that are offered.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). In the last decade there has been a massive and utterly profound change in the way that modern, technological channels of information dissemination are used.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130