Bad information flows around anywhere, even within networks of emergency management professionals. Just yesterday, there was an article credited to Doug Coup flying around the email system. It came to me from an individual in my branch, who got it from someone at another branch with a lot of emergency response experience, who got it [...]
They say that the devil is in the details. They also say that God is in the details. Whichever one is true, the main gist is correct: you’ve got to pay attention to the details if you want your emergency operations centre (EOC) to operate smoothly and effectively. You need to pay attention to details [...]
Designing and undertaking exercises are critical to the development and validation of business continuity plans and emergency management plans. They are also critical to the training & familiarization that your organization’s people will need in order to respond as effectively as possible when the time comes. Yet, exercises often aren’t taken seriously by management or [...]
We had it easy with the H1N1 flu pandemic that hit us in 2009 to early-2010. It wasn’t the killer virus that experts had been telling everyone to plan for and to expect. It wasn’t a replay of 1918. The real danger now is that the boy cried wolf, and people may not heed the [...]
Some agencies are advising the public to use text messaging (SMS) in a large-scale emergency. The rationale is that the voice lines will be overloaded, but the little data packets for text messaging will get through. Conceptually this sounds nice. In fact, I used to advise this in the past, too. But based on my understanding [...]
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