Personal Preparedness Continuity Compliance

Emergency Planning = Redundancy Planning ?

November 7, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Photo courtesy of modernsurvivalonline.com

by Ben Carnevale With so much content already on the web addressing the topic of emergency planning, and with so many of us (including myself) procrastinating about doing something about setting and achieving our own personal preparedness goals and objectives, I was pleased to come across a recent posting entitled “Thoughts on Preparedness” written by Lynda King. What attracted me most to this posting was her ability to make me believe that we all can actually do something to help us effectively cope when disaster strikes. Also, when thousands of people in your area all need … [Read more...]

American Red Cross Mobile App Preparedness Tips

October 28, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance 2 Comments

by: Ben J. Carnevale, Contributing Writer For those readers who reside in the path of Hurricane Sandy over the next few days, our staff offers a reminder of the many disaster preparedness mobile apps available from the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross has worked hard in transforming itself for the future – and just a small part of that great effort includes this series of disaster related mobile device applications available to everyone. Please check out the following disaster preparedness and disaster recovery mobile device applications: Hurricane App – this … [Read more...]

Disaster Preparedness Resource List

October 24, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Recently our staff has received requests for more updates and information regarding who is doing what in disaster preparedness work, why we should care and what is new and worth a closer look. To address this request our staff would like to reference a recent article written by Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D., who teaches at Bryn Mawr’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in Pennsylvania, and consults for nonprofits. She was also the director of the Hurricane Fund for the Elderly, which was an initiative of “Grantmakers in Aging”. This initiative raised money to help … [Read more...]

Disaster Preparedness Myths Still Prevail

September 7, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

In a recent article, written by Paul Purcell, and entitled “Disaster Dozen: 12 Myths of Disaster Preparedness”, and, supporting this month as the National Preparedness Month 2012, our staff would like to recommend our readers look at these disaster preparedness myths and review where those myths are still present in your family, the community where you live and the organization where you work. By addressing these obstacles you will be improving the awareness and preparedness levels of individuals, families, communities and employees – but, even more importantly, you will help dispel … [Read more...]

National Preparedness Month 2012

September 4, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The Labor Day holiday is now over, and, as students all around the United States have now started their new school year, in this month of September 2012, all citizens are called to remember that throughout our country’s history, disaster events –both natural and caused by decisions made by man – have challenged the preparedness capabilities and the very fabric of our country in the past, and, certainly can do so again in the future. To this point, and as we begin this year’s National Preparedness Month (“NPM 2012”), our staff would like to remind our readers that President … [Read more...]

“Project: Lifeline” and “bReddi” Facebook Applications Now Available

June 5, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

As a result of an earlier Facebook challenge to call on software application developers, entrepreneurs, social networking enthusiasts, members of the public health and emergency response communities to design a new Facebook applications that would support individual and community resilience during disasters, two winning Facebook applications went live last week. Those winning applications are Project: Lifeline and bReddi. Both of these applications allow users to identify lifelines, create and share personal preparedness plans and track the status of their Facebook friends in … [Read more...]

Free Emergency Management Training Program Offered by Firefighter’s Support Foundation

May 3, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Emergency management planning teams need to be aware of the Firefighter’s Support Foundation’s (FSF) newest free training program. The program is titled, “Emergency Management for the Fire Service”, and, is in many ways a response to the fact that emergency management is becoming an ever more important function that the fire service provides to its communities. Beyond its more than capable strict firefighting abilities, this training program drills down into each of the emergency management’s four (4) major components: preparation, response, recovery and mitigation. This program … [Read more...]

Comprehensive Auditing Process Now Available for School Related Emergency Response and Education Management

April 25, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

A “Super School Security Audit” program has been developed by a new national coalition of school safety experts. According to SERAPH CEO Dale Yeager, “…This is the first time that law enforcement and school administers have come together to create a comprehensive auditing process for School Safety, Emergency Response and Education Management”. “Many school districts’ do not have a formal process to accurately assess from a security perspective what is happening behind the scenes of their schools”, says SAFEPLANS President Brad Spicer. “This new process will provide them … [Read more...]

Disaster Preparedness Framework in a School Based Environment

March 30, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Some of our readers have requested additional information and reading resource material concerning disaster risk reduction in the education sector. In response to that request our staff would like to recommend adding the following document to that reading resource list – “A Framework of School-Based Disaster Preparedness”. This framework was developed by the Consortium for Disaster Education in Indonesia, and, framework is intended to raise awareness levels on disaster risk reduction for all stakeholders in the education sector, both individually and collectively, as an effort to … [Read more...]

Emergency Responder Knowledge Base Website Resource Available Online 24/7

January 12, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The concept now well known as “Information Sharing” had its early adoption during the implementation, in October 2003, of “Project Responder”. This original project was jointly sponsored by the Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and, was meant to assist emergency and first responder teams. The project later evolved again – into the development and now widespread use of the Responder Knowledge Base (RKB) website (www.rkb.us). The Responder Knowledge Base website is funded by DHS's … [Read more...]