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.

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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.

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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

Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The business impact of climate change cannot be ignored despite the extent to which technology has permeated commercial activity. Location Specific Environmental Hazards. Facilities, operations and management need to adapt to their environments and protect against location specific hazards. Climate Change Resiliency.

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Hazard Manufacturing Disaster Recovery Transportation 40

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

The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. It lacks a national emergency operations centre. For the ops people in Rome there is a cluster of five emergency operations rooms in a substantial purpose-built complex.

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. Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 9, 2023

This can create very hazardous conditions, especially for vulnerable populations. Steps to Build Resilience to Extreme Heat in Your Community Emergency managers, policymakers, planners, and community leaders play an important role in helping to build resilience to extreme heat in their communities.

Resilience 98

Resilience Response Plan Vulnerability Hazard 98

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard. Myth 30: Technology will save the world from disaster. We already have considerable technological resources, but they are poorly distributed and often ineffectively used.

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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