Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

Fire, flood, extremes of heat and cold, tempests, tornadoes, bombings, shootings, structural collapses, chronic contamination, infrastructure failure and transportation crashes are all features of recent British history and, where such events have had a profound impact, they deserve to be called disasters, and treated as such.

All-Hazards

everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

During severe weather emergencies, authorities, companies, and organizations will need to easily identify and communicate effectively with on-the-ground teams, any at-risk populations, first responders, transportation resources, and medical supplies. ACT – Take quick and decisive action to mitigate or eliminate the impact of a threat.

Resilience

CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

Here are four (4) steps your community can take: Review and enhance emergency plans Develop readiness with training and practice Establish and strengthen partnerships Remain vigilant by monitoring hazards and risks Review and Enhance Your Emergency Plans Your community already has emergency plans.

All-Hazards

CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort. It can result in power outages, transportation disruptions, and, most critically, could pose serious health risks to people. Collaborate with critical infrastructure providers to understand risks and align a cohesive strategy through all four phases of emergency management.

Resilience

CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

Review and Enhance Flood Plans Your community already has emergency plans, and you may even have flood-specific plans. Review the plans and think about how flooding might impact your community. Once flood waters arrive, normal routes of transportation and emergency responders may not be available.

All-Hazards

CCEM Strategies

MARCH 17, 2023

Ensuring Canada’s Critical Infrastructure system is ready and resilient Can you imagine what would happen if an incident such as a natural disaster compromised our transportation, food or even energy Critical Infrastructure (CI) systems? In November 2021, British Columbians didn’t have to.

Resilience

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

Alternate Site

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

Alternate Site

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

Luckily nobody was hurt, and transport was not disrupted. 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.

Transportation

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

Luckily nobody was hurt, and transport was not disrupted. 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.

Transportation

Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

C already implies a mammoth transformation in how industries leverage energy, land, transport, industrial systems and other resources. Climate change can make regional weather conditions more erratic, resulting in sudden rises in sea levels, droughts or other changes that businesses with conventional emergency plans might not be prepared for.

Hazard

CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 24, 2023

How will you provide volunteers shelter, transportation, food and water and personal protective equipment (PPE)? This could include technology, office supplies and equipment, safety gear, as well as vehicles or other operational equipment. · Will you have options for volunteers to go to for information and registration?

Management

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.

Business Continuity

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.

Business Continuity

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Recently, I spoke to a senior emergency planner who has worked for years in the transportation and nuclear industries. 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.

Management

Emergency Planning

JUNE 20, 2020

Front-line' workers include those who serve in hospitals, work in care homes, run public transport and deliver essential items. The role of emergency planning. The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period.

Emergency Planning

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b) b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology.

Risk Reduction

Emergency Planning

MARCH 26, 2020

Hospital beds, medical staff, personal protective equipment, ventilators, vaccines, antivirals, palliative medicines, economic subsidies, payment for holidays, substitute wages, organised assistance, the policing of social distancing, the reorganisation of public transport and basic services, emergency communication, they are all being improvised.

Pandemic

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8%

Vulnerability

Emergency Planning

MARCH 11, 2020

difficulties associated with procuring reliable, intelligible information being in the wrong place at the wrong time general uncertainty in the evolution of the epidemic These, then, are the possible building blocks of scenarios that could be used for future planning. International Air Transport Association, Geneva, 14 pp. Spinney, L.

Pandemic

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

As the transport and operation of field hospitals tends to be expensive and logistically challenging, in some cases it may be more efficient to attempt to restore or augment existing hospitals in the area, even if they are significantly damaged. Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises.

Hospitality