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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Emergency planning excluded emergency planners and was put in the hands of a consortium of medical doctors and politicians, yet half the battle in a pandemic is to manage the logistical, social and economic consequences. Its tasks will be life-saving response, damage limitation, public safety and launching recovery.

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Healthcare and Crisis Teams Harness PagerDuty to Stay Ready and Resilient by Nisha Kadaba

PagerDuty

Using custom technology, they divert the unexpired, life-saving medicine from being dumped, flushed, or burnt and get it to people in need by automating a courier pick-up and logistics. For patients, the program provides life-saving medicine that they otherwise couldnt access for free or at a low cost.

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Integrating Technology into Rapid Damage Assessment and Recovery

Disaster Zone Podcast

In her time at a large public utility, Melanie held a number of storm positions in addition to her day-to-day responsibilities, including leading damage assessment, crew management, restoration strategy, and resource logistics. This episode is sponsored by Unearth. This episode is sponsored by Unearth.

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Emergency Response Planning Tasks

MHA Consulting

There are numerous risks a company can face that will require an Emergency Response Plan. Rather than creating a separate plan for every type of event that could occur, it is advisable to create a basic emergency response checklist that can be used regardless of the emergency.

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Coordinating Emergency Response and Business Continuity in Manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

Charlie discusses the different emergency response and business continuity issues to consider after an incident, and how both teams can communicate efficiently. In manufacturing, even if there is no formal business continuity plan in place, there are often emergency response plans.

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Emergency Response Planning Tasks

MHA Consulting

There are numerous risks a company can face that will require an Emergency Response Plan. Rather than creating a separate plan for every type of event that could occur, it is advisable to create a basic emergency response checklist that can be used regardless of the emergency.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

In the world as a whole, there has been a gradual process of demilitarisation of emergency response. Meanwhile, in Britain, there were shortcomings in the response to the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash, particularly in the treatment of the survivors. The lineaments of the system reflect military practice.