Mass Notification and Crisis Communications: Planning, Preparedness, and Systems

Mass Notification and Crisis Communications: Planning, Preparedness, and Systems Review

Mass communication in the midst of a crisis must be done in a targeted and timely manner to mitigate the impact and ultimately save lives. Based on sound research, real-world case studies, and the author’s own experiences, Mass Notification and Crisis Communications: Planning, Preparedness, and Systems helps emergency planning professionals create a crisis communications plan that works by establishing upfront relationships with responders, enacting protocols, and utilizing technology to effectively message the intended audience.

Providing communication best practices to professionals, the book:

• Reviews the challenges organizations face with communications in the face of various types of disasters
• Helps to outline the target audience of the communiqué
• Describes different communication techniques used throughout history during peace and wartime
• Provides methods for getting the right message across the first time
• Explores how social media can be a powerful tool in message dissemination
• Examines the legal landscape to ensure managers are in compliance with international, federal, state, and local regulatory requirements

Aligned with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Emergency Communications Plan—as well as the U.S. strategic plan to improve emergency response communications—the book provides recommendations to key decision makers given all considerations that must be weighed and factored in during a crisis.

Emergency Preparedness for Facilities: A Guide to Safety Planning and Business Continuity

Emergency Preparedness for Facilities: A Guide to Safety Planning and Business Continuity Review

A business survival "checklist," Emergency Preparedness for Facilities provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters. It helps you create an organization-wide emergency management plan that ensures that all procedures are in place and all equipment and personnel needs are addressed so that your company can respond to an emergency situation quickly and instinctively. You will feel confident that your employees are trained and prepared to put your company's plan into action and protect all workers, property, and the life of the company in the face of any natural or non-natural event.

The author identifies and examines nineteen natural and non-natural emergencies—defined as anything that disrupts an organization, including power outages, chemical spills, bomb threats, riots or demonstrations, workplace violence, fires, droughts, and blizzards or floods—and provides two case studies for each. He also provides detailed instructions on what to do if faced with each emergency.

This book references and explains all relevant OSHA requirements, including the completion of OSHA Forms 300, 301, and 300A after an accident. It includes a companion CD-ROM that the forms and templates you need to prepare for an emergency and to create a complete emergency preparedness plan.

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness

Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness Review

The swine flu emergency needn’t become a crisis. This critically acclaimed work provides public health officials, doctors, responders, and emergency planners with accurate current information that will help them understand the nature of an outbreak, assess risk, answer public concerns, and develop informed strategies.

Devoid of sensationalism and agenda, this CRC Press resource provides all the information needed to understand pandemic influenzas including, avian, swine, and human variations and outlines the steps needed to develop and implement prevention, stabilization, and recovery efforts as needed at the local level.

"... 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

Make certain your response to Swine Flu is proactive and informed

Edited by Jeffrey Ryan, Institute for Emergency Preparedness, this volume —

• Arms planners and responders with guidance from 13 leading experts
• Takes lessons from past pandemics
• Covers biological and clinical aspects of influenza
• Discusses pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures
• Details response actions related to communication, travel, and quarantine

While the swine flu outbreak has impacted Mexico; influenza has no respect for boundaries and is already being felt up north. Despite warnings from the World Health Organization, our preparedness continues to lag. Part of the problem is that the real action must occur at the local level. Triage, care, and containment, along with maintenance of infrastructure, are functions that must be carried out by local planners and responders.

The first section reviews the history of pandemics. The middle chapters examine the biology of a virus and clinical aspects of influenza. The final chapters examine international and federal programs and discuss response at the local level, including service continuation planning and fatality management.

When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival

When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival Review

Disasters often strike without warning and leave a trail of destruction in their wake. Yet armed with the right tools and information, survivors can fend for themselves and get through even the toughest circumstances. Matthew Stein's When Disaster Strikes provides a thorough, practical guide for how to prepare for and react in many of life's most unpredictable scenarios.

In this disaster-preparedness manual, he outlines the materials you'll need-from food and water, to shelter and energy, to first-aid and survival skills-to help you safely live through the worst. When Disaster Strikes covers how to find and store food, water, and clothing, as well as the basics of installing back-up power and lights. You'll learn how to gather and sterilize water, build a fire, treat injuries in an emergency, and use alternative medical sources when conventional ones are unavailable.

Stein instructs you on the smartest responses to natural disasters-such as fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods-how to keep warm during winter storms, even how to protect yourself from attack or other dangerous situations. With this comprehensive guide in hand, you can be sure to respond quickly, correctly, and confidently when a crisis threatens.

Principles of Emergency Planning and Management

Principles of Emergency Planning and Management Review

As interest in planning for emergencies and disasters burgeons, and educational and training programs proliferate, Principles of emergency planning and management is the first book to meet the need for a concise yet comprehensive and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. Providing readers with a comprehensive, systematic, yet concise introduction to effective preparation for disasters, it provides a unified starting point encompassing the scattered and parochial literature in this nascent field of academic enquiry and practical endeavor.
The book provides a general introduction to the methods, procedures, protocols and strategies of emergency planning, with emphasis on situations in industrialized countries and the local level of organization (i.e. cities, municipalities, metropolitan areas and small regions), though with ample reference to national and international levels. Rather than concentrating on the practices of any one country or state, the author focuses on general principles. Principles of emergency planning and management is designed to be a reference source and manual from which emergency managers can extract ideas, suggestions and pro-forma methodologies to help them design and implement emergency plans. A comprehensive all-hazards approach is adopted, with frequent reference to the most important individual hazards and the planning and management needs that they create. Twelve examples of actual emergency planning and management problems are analyzed in detail.
Principles of emergency planning and management is written especially for the new generation of emergency planners and managers that is emerging as a result of intensified governmental interest in disaster preparedness. Many of them will occupy positions in government or other organizations that require emergency plans. The book will also be of value to students of disasters and hazards who have a practical interest in how disasters are planned for and managed, and to professional workers and trainees who will eventually have to participate in disaster plans. Principles of emergencyplanning and management is designed to be easily integrated with training courses in emergency preparedness.

Emergency Preparedness Planning: A Primer for Chemists

Emergency Preparedness Planning: A Primer for Chemists Review

This book is the ideal introductory primer to emergency management for those who work in the chemical enterprise and are new or have an interest in the topic. It avoids complicated medical jargon and is aimed at a wide audience, particularly those who have just been given the responsibility for developing an emergency response plan. Many examples and parallels for simple and complex situations occur throughout, making this book understandable and extremely useful. As well, the authors have included appendices that contain supporting information and planning tools to be used during the planning process and an outline that may be tailored to meet the needs of specific organizations. This book will undoubtedly facilitate the use and awareness of emergency management for those just entering the field and for all those who realize its importance.

Proactive School Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning

Proactive School Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning Review

Security expert Kenneth S. Trump outlines school security issues and provides nuts-and-bolts strategies for preventing violence and preparing for crises. Includes author's companion website.