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Author Archives: Cassie Harman
Active Shooters: Know the Drill
Monday’s school shooting in Chardon, Ohio serves as a sad reminder that campus violence is an ongoing threat, as is violence in the workplace. The thought that an active shooter incident could occur in our place of work is deeply … Continue reading
Emergency Notification: 5 Best Practices
Yesterday’s shooting on the Virginia Tech campus immediately garnered a lot of comparisons to the university’s previous active shooter incident in 2007. Even more telling, though, are the contrasts – primarily in the university’s level of preparedness for crisis events. … Continue reading
Join Preparis at the Continuity Insights Management Conference
The Continuity Insights Management Conference 2011 starts today in Atlanta and Preparis is attending as an exhibitor. Join the team at Booth 500 to get a free preparedness score and customized report for your company – and be entered into … Continue reading
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Responding to a tsunami
A sheet of debris-strewn water rolling across the landscape, dotted with whole buildings in flames, is likely to be the terrible image that will be associated with the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Japan today. With … Continue reading
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Business travelers and measles – know the risks
Public health concerns have been sparked over two unrelated reports of possible measles outbreaks last week in New Mexico and Boston, MA. Although endemic measles was eliminated from this country over a decade ago, there are still dozens of cases … Continue reading
How prepared is the US for disease, disaster and bioterrorism?
Last month, Trust for America’s Health, a non-profit organization that reports on public health issues in the United States, released its eighth annual report entitled Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism. It reveals that despite … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Preparedness, Natural Disasters, Pandemics, Terrorism
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Top 5 Tips For Creating A Crisis Communications Plan
As BP demonstrated to the world earlier this year, even the largest companies with the most resources can get crisis communications spectacularly wrong. Good communications during a disaster, just like other aspects of crisis management, relies upon good planning. What you … Continue reading
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911 Texting: Not The Only New Emergency Response Tool
Today, the FCC announced upcoming changes to the U.S. 9-1-1 system that will take advantage of new communication technologies, including text and multimedia messages. Being able to text a request for help will clearly help to save lives in situations … Continue reading
7 Reasons Why Emergency Response and Preparedness Matter To Your Organization
As temperatures drop and daylight hours dwindle, your thoughts may be turning to the approaching holiday season…or they could equally be occupied with thinking about budgeting for next year. If you are drawing up your department’s budget for 2011 and … Continue reading
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A Guide To Successful Tabletop Exercises
As anyone who has ever been involved in event management can tell you, even the best laid plans can go terribly wrong with the simple introduction of the “human factor”. Apply this to emergency response planning, where the stakes are … Continue reading
