What are you doing now to be ready to help management deal with serious menacing workplace problems?  These incidents have enormously high visibility and extremely long-term organizational impact.  Are you ready to prevent, mitigate, and de-escalate the circumstances of such events?  To properly and safely respond to the worst case scenarios when they happen?  To deal with the negative, long-term impacts these incidents cause?

On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, step out of your comfort zone and join James E. Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, and Richard Sem, CPP, CSC, President of Sem Security Management, to learn about workplace violence prevention, detection, de-escalation, and response approaches.
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2009 will see the political consequences of the global credit crunch start to have an impact, according to the 16th annual Political Risk Map from Aon Risk Services, a division of Aon Corporation.

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Whether a staff member is suffering reactions to the stress of a personal or work situation or psychological trauma as a result of a workplace accident or critical incident, stress and trauma can damage business day to day operations.

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IBM and Acclimatise have released a check list of questions company directors concerned about climate impacts should ask.

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Here are some Pandemic Planning Resource Links I have found particularly useful.

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Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness

New book by Jeffrey R. Ryan

• Analyze the threat of pandemics in general, and influenza specifically
• Identify principles associated with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
• Assess factors leading to an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, including its potential effect on the economy
• Evaluate the use of pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical measures
• Determine response actions of various emergency services disciplines as they relate to communications, travel, and quarantine
• Examine the components of service continuation essential for the private sector to remain intact during a severe pandemic

“… an amazing resource … Dr. Ryan has assembled some of the best experts in the field to guide you in understanding the threat of pandemic influenza and how it can affect you and the people you are responsible for. …” - From the foreword by Lynn A. Slepski, Captain, United States Public Health Service

No one is immune to the potential devastation of a mass pandemic influenza outbreak. Yet despite recent small-scale outbreaks and dire warnings from the World Health Organization that such an event is imminent and overdue, our preparedness continues to lag. Part of the problem is that while a national plan is important, all the real action must occur at the local level. Triage, care, and containment, along with maintenance of the infrastructure, are functions that must be carried out by local planners and responders.

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness introduces readers to the critical global and domestic issues regarding a potential pandemic. Featuring the contributions of leading experts, this volume arms planners and responders with an understanding of outbreak containment and response planning and provides an analysis of our present capabilities and potential weaknesses.

The first section reviews the history of pandemics and discusses the deadly 1918 Spanish flu. The middle chapters examine the biology of the virus and the clinical aspects of influenza, with special attention given to Avian Influenza. The final chapters examine international and federal programs and discuss response at the local level, including service continuation planning and fatality management.

Public health and emergency preparedness professionals, as well as policy makers at all levels will find a wealth of information to help them create a plan and allocate the proper resources to mitigate the devastation of a pandemic influenza.

Special Offer!

Be prepared! Purchase Pandemic Influenza, along with the Pandemic Preparation and Response Plan Template for Business on CD-ROM for $119.90.

New book by Jeffrey R. Ryan:

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness

• Analyze the threat of pandemics in general, and influenza specifically
• Identify principles associated with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
• Assess factors leading to an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, including its potential effect on the economy
• Evaluate the use of pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical measures
• Determine response actions of various emergency services disciplines as they relate to communications, travel, and quarantine
• Examine the components of service continuation essential for the private sector to remain intact during a severe pandemic

“… an amazing resource … Dr. Ryan has assembled some of the best experts in the field to guide you in understanding the threat of pandemic influenza and how it can affect you and the people you are responsible for. …” - From the foreword by Lynn A. Slepski, Captain, United States Public Health Service

No one is immune to the potential devastation of a mass pandemic influenza outbreak. Yet despite recent small-scale outbreaks and dire warnings from the World Health Organization that such an event is imminent and overdue, our preparedness continues to lag. Part of the problem is that while a national plan is important, all the real action must occur at the local level. Triage, care, and containment, along with maintenance of the infrastructure, are functions that must be carried out by local planners and responders.

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness introduces readers to the critical global and domestic issues regarding a potential pandemic. Featuring the contributions of leading experts, this volume arms planners and responders with an understanding of outbreak containment and response planning and provides an analysis of our present capabilities and potential weaknesses.

The first section reviews the history of pandemics and discusses the deadly 1918 Spanish flu. The middle chapters examine the biology of the virus and the clinical aspects of influenza, with special attention given to Avian Influenza. The final chapters examine international and federal programs and discuss response at the local level, including service continuation planning and fatality management.

Public health and emergency preparedness professionals, as well as policy makers at all levels will find a wealth of information to help them create a plan and allocate the proper resources to mitigate the devastation of a pandemic influenza.

Special Offer!

Be prepared! Purchase Pandemic Influenza, along with the Pandemic Preparation and Response Plan Template for Business on CD-ROM for $119.90.

This paper examined the Indian government intervention in crisis management during 2008, terrorist attack on Mumbai, India.

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The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) recently announced the approval of an American National Standard (ANS) enabling alarm companies to automatically transmit alerts to 911 centers.   Alarm vendors typically place a phone call to 911 centers when an alert sounds.

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“Without question, 2008 was an eventful year for major financial institutions, with massive losses, questions of solvency and, ultimately, government bailouts now totaling over a trillion dollars. The corporate fire sales, downsizing and mergers now commonplace in the financial industry are a cause for not only serious concern about the health of our economy, but also concerns relating to the security of personal and financial data.”

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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 Emergency Operations Center: Survivability, Redundancy, Communications, Flexibility and Open Architecture, and Security. These design considerations are important even if you are remodeling a building to become your EOC, or modifying and improving an existing EOC.

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