by PreparedEx | Jan 17, 2017
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSOn October 25, 2011, Jessica Buchanan and a colleague were kidnapped at gunpoint by Somali land pirates and held for 93 days, enduring the most harrowing and painful experience of her...
by Rob Burton | Dec 21, 2016
1. The Master Events Log The MEL (Master Events Log) is an essential document that can help the crisis team document the incident as soon as it starts to unfold. The MEL is a document that should be filled out by a scribe who usually is in close coordination with the...
by Rob Burton | Nov 7, 2016
When you establish your crisis management capability, conduct crisis management exercises, or actually go through crises, what are the most common issues or gaps that are uncovered? Within this article, I define a few of the more common issues that we see when...
by PreparedEx | Oct 12, 2016
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSCommunities are not just made up of homes and apartments. Many communities have businesses that provide jobs and other services to those communities. Major cities have businesses that...
by Mark Gillan | Sep 27, 2016
As the fall out is being assessed from this year’s major wildland fires on the U.S. west coast and in the Canadian context, the most costly disaster in Canadian history “the Fort McMurray Fire” risk assessors and public policy analysts are re-considering our planning...
by Marcus Stephens-Ofner | Aug 3, 2016
As we start this years Olympics and millions of people converge on Rio, the publicity machine is starting its usual move into overdrive-both negative and positive. Already the media doom mongers are running stories (and have been for some time) that it will be a...
