The last few years have averaged ninety-five Federal Disaster Declarations each year; one every four days. When communications towers collapse during these events, fiber optic cables are damaged and cell traffic is down to marginal [...]
In her PrepTalk, Dr. Carolyn Kousky demonstrates the essential role of insurance in disaster recovery. She explains why not enough people have insurance coverage and offers suggestions for how the public and private sectors [...]
A Lawyer’s Perspective Social media hold tremendous potential for facilitating disaster recovery. In the recent Haitian earthquake, for example, Twitter posts enabled the State Department to initiate a set of steps that led to finding [...]
Tips and best practices for using new tools to communicate effectively Risk and crisis communicators face pressure to adapt to the changing 21st-century landscape. With new threats like terrorist attacks, biological warfare, and cyber security [...]
How an entire community got disaster-ready Emergency Preparedness Manager Raymond Riordan says people often ask him how his “Citizen Corps Council” was able to achieve participation from so many in the San Ramon community. He [...]
It is common that evacuations are required at many types of incidents. The need for the incident command (IC) to require an evacuation can occur at any time. Conducting an evacuation needs to be part [...]
Today, most Business Continuity professionals recognize the need and value of an emergency notification system. But, as with so many other BCP requirements, the budget isn’t there. So what is a BCP professional to do? [...]
An Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a complex facility that serves as a nerve center during both small emergencies and large disasters. There are five primary considerations for the design and construction of a new [...]
Toyota’sPlan Kept the Supply Chain Moving At Toyota Financial Services (TFS), every emergency event teaches us new lessons, helps us improve our emergency management program, and lets us evaluate how we can best protect our [...]
Ike presented many companies with the ultimate test of their previous business continuity planning efforts. A health care company — responsible for managing cancer treatment centers through the US with offices in north Houston and [...]
During the recovery efforts following Hurricane Ike, organizations that conducted comprehensive tests of their recovery plans were operational in the allotted time with very little – if any – complications. One of the benefits observed [...]
Three years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Ike offered the disaster management community an opportunity to implement the lessons learned. How did the country measure up? Disaster Resource Guide finds out. As Hurricane Ike [...]