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Emergency Planning
APRIL 24, 2022
Everyday risk factors are different when floods, transportation crashes, landslides, toxic spills, structural collapses occur against a background of asymmetric warfare, armed insurgency, fighting or rampant terrorism. Moreover, the Coronavirus pandemic has been widely used as a pretext for curtailing human rights.
Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
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. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.
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Plan B Consulting
APRIL 12, 2019
In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. Threats come in fashions and cyber is the big threat of the moment.
Plan B Consulting
APRIL 12, 2019
In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. Threats come in fashions and cyber is the big threat of the moment.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 20, 2020
Image: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In terms of its scope, Covid-19 is like no other disaster that has occurred in the last 100 years, since, in fact, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 killed more people than both world wars combined, and contributed to the end of the First World War.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. Trufanov, A.,
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