NEW BOOK: Emergency Evacuation Planning For the Workplace, by Jim Burtles


5 REASONS

You’ll Want Jim Burtles’ New Groundbreaking Guide:

Emergency Evacuation Planning For the Workplace

  1. Puts 10 years of experience and research by a world leader in the field at your fingertips - presents a state-of-the-art exposition of Emergency Evacuation Planning (EEP) global best practices and standards.
  2. Introduces new EEP methodology – uses the BCM 6-step model you already know to develop, implement and test effective organization-wide plans.
  3. Provides evacuation solutions for all kinds of personal conditions and facilitiesfor people of varying ages, health conditions, and special needs and for various facilities, including small offices, skyscrapers, business campuses, industrial plants, stores, hospitals, schools and colleges.
  4. Gives practical and compassionate insights for dealing with emotional reactions and physical difficulties – both pre- and post-event—and the longer term effects of trauma.
  5. Spares you pitfalls and costly mistakes – by giving you field-tested tools, templates, case studies, and practical tips.

Jim Burtles, KLJ, CMLJ, FBCI, is a well known leader in Business Continuity Management spanning 35+ years and 24 countries. He is a founding fellow of the Business Continuity Institute; received the Freedom of the City of London Award in 1992; and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by his peers in 2001.

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The Lines Between Continuity and Recovery Are Blurry


During a disaster, emergency responders tend to “put out the fires” and move on. The other responsibilities, such as continuity — or keeping it all together during and after the response — and recovery — putting it back the way it was or creating resiliency in order to survive the next event — fall to someone else.

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Business Resumption Contracts – A Must Have, but…


There are many names for these contracts (Emergency Response, Restoration, Rapid Response, Disaster Recovery, Business Recovery, Business Resumption, etc.), and many vendors offer them. What are they and should your organization have one?

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Stress makes even the most well-trained emergency managers stupid


Quarter till four. Sleeping, gently dreaming. Suddenly: lights flashing, bells ringing, pagers beeping, a metallic voice barks instructions. Must respond. Duty. Comrades. Boots. Suspenders. Rollup door. Engine start, all aboard, lights, release the brakes … Continue reading Stress makes even the most well-trained emergency managers stupid

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New report on CDC-funded preparedness and response activities


Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation’s Emergency Response State by State highlights progress in preparedness and presents data on a broad range of preparedness and response activities occurring at state and local levels across the United States.

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Closing the loop between planning and action: Using the After Action Review


Contemporary emergency response agencies pose what, on first blush, might seem to be an intriguing organizational conundrum. Fire and EMS organizations, for example, are enterprises that are strongly and very visibly accountable for preparedness respecting the big, the bad and the ugly, those major incidents that can subject a community and its leadership to truly undesirable variations on Andy Warhol’s famed 15 minutes.

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Logistic Operations for Emergency Supplies: Guidance for Emergency Planners


This guidance from the UK Cabinet Office is intended to provide a common understanding of the options available to emergency planners for the coordination, prioritization and acquisition of emergency supplies.

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Real-Time Disaster Alerts: GDACS


GDACS  provides near-real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogs and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Center.

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Training: FEMA, Army Engineers Unveil Disaster Tools


The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have announced availability of  several new, user-friendly tools to enhance state and local capabilities to launch and operate Points of Distribution (POD) during and immediately after disaster events.

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NIST Stairwell Evacuation Study Published


Most of the time, we use the stairs in buildings—especially in high-rise structures—only as a backup for faster elevators and escalators, but during a fire or other emergency, stairs become our primary passage to survival.   In a new study, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) examined what we know about how stairs work as an emergency evacuation route and found that the answer is—not nearly enough.

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Standards: Will New Standard for 911 Service Help?


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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