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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.

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An Old Threat Returns

Plan B Consulting

When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle. Not all things sent in the post are designed to harm, sometimes they are just plain stupid.

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An Old Threat Returns

Plan B Consulting

When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle. Not all things sent in the post are designed to harm, sometimes they are just plain stupid.

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Working in a Hybrid World – The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms

Plan B Consulting

This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. With this in mind, I am going to share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

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Working in a Hybrid World – The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms

Plan B Consulting

This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. With this in mind, I am going to share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. My impression is that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. My impression is that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.