What should be in Place before the Event?
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- Understanding Crisis Management
- How to manage a crisis?
- Virtually every crisis contains the seeds of success as well as the roots of failure
- The Rationale of the Crisis Manager
- Consider the range of risks: Natural Environmental; Hazards; Technological loss of utilities product process plant; Human Error; Sabotage and Terrorism
- Crisis Managers - Roles and Responsibilities - manage the issue before it becomes a Crisis
- Who else inside and outside the organisation should be involved?
- Evaluating your risks and vulnerabilities; Consider the worst case scenarios
- Understanding denial curve and group-think syndromes
- Who decides who sits in the hot seat?
Pre-Planning, Who and What Else Should be Considered?
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- Who owns the mitigation process?
- Self-evaluating questionnaires
- Developing and Implementing Emergency Plans
- Twelve point check list covering the whole planning process
- Mutual Aid arrangements
- Company-wide strategic contingency plans
- Service or departmental plans
- Building evacuation plans
- Crisis Management and Communications. Emergency Centres
- Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategy
- Business Impact Analysis
Dealing with a Crisis: The Communications Perspective
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- Command and Control Issues
- Operational (at the scene)
- Tactical (at the forward control point-incident command)
- Strategic (boardroom level-emergency operations center)
- On Scene Crisis Management, essential elements for success
- Reputation Management - Managing the Media
- Organizing a Press Conference
- Conducting Radio and Television Interviews
Incident Management and Aftermath
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- Alerting and Warning. Case Studies. What can go right and what can go wrong
- Major Incident Simulation - Role Playing Workshop
- Syndicate selection
- Reporting back
- Potential Psychological and Welfare problems in Crisis Management
- How to improve staff morale and confidence in the process
- The psychological effects during and after an incident involving injuries - and worse
- Looking after yourself and your staff
- Questionnaire, are your batteries in good condition?
Leadership Behavior and Behavioral Safety
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- Validating plans and procedures
- Discuss the four types of exercise
- How to get the most out of an exercise
- Post Incident evaluations
- De-briefing skills - managing the de-briefs
- Critique report writing, executive summaries and recommendations
- How to keep all stakeholders informed
- Prioritizing the Recommendation