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Emergency Management and Our Schools
Are our K-12 schools prepared to face emergency situations? As we’ve all been made acutely aware in recent years, schools face the potential for emergencies that many are not equipped or prepared to handle on their own. Along with investigating …
Induced Earthquakes and Your Disaster Management Plans
Are man-made quakes putting your organization at risk? Most organizations in our home state of California have disaster management plans that include the possibility of earthquakes because everyone is well aware that the state sits on several major fault lines. …
Guest Post: Common Tabletop Exercise Mistakes
Avoid problems that will hamper your crisis preparedness down the road Tabletop exercises are a powerful tool in your crisis preparedness arsenal. They allow your team to practice working together, your plans to be felt out for gaps, policies to be …
Improving the Effectiveness of Emergency Communications
A look at what it takes to truly refine the process If you’re using some type of emergency communication system, whether it’s formal enterprise software or simple already prepared email, text, and social media lists, you’re on the path to …
Emergency Management: Then, Now, and the Future
How has this crisis management discipline evolved, and where should it be headed? Emergency management is one of the most intensive types of crisis management due to the fact that, in many cases, lives are literally at stake. It’s a …