It doesn’t matter what type of industry you’re talking about – the fact that you will one day find yourself in the middle of a crisis is not a question of “if,” but “when.” If you’re the type of person who thinks that you can never plan, prepare, and strategize enough to ward off any …
An overview of the NFPA 1600 Standard
Published in pamphlet, handbook, and eBook editions by the National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 1600’s full title is “Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity/Continuity of Operations Programs, 2016 Edition.” Anyone working in or having overall responsibilities for an emergency management standard in their organization should be familiar with NFPA 1600. It is a comprehensive, yet …
What Free Active Shooter Planning Resources Are Available Online?
You can find endless training resources for your employees online. However, some of the best resources available are free and published by major government organizations. Rather than wasting time looking for online active shooter training resources, consider downloading the information presented by these entities. FBI Office of Partner Engagement’s Active Shooter Training Portal The FBI …
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Active Shooter Training: Management Essentials
Run. Hide. Fight. These words may not seem like much of a battle plan when it comes to dealing with the threat of an active shooter incident in your business. However, they define the fundamentals of responding to an active shooter, and if your employees and managers do not understand them, fatalities during an incident …
How mismanaging a workplace violence threat can have a disastrous impact on your company
It wasn’t long ago when the utterances of an angry employee were cast aside as temporary fits of verbal rage. An employee mumbling about how he’d like to kill his boss or harm people of a certain ethnic descent would have been shrugged off by most co-workers a couple of decades ago. Times have certainly …
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10 Ways An Effective Crisis Manager Survives a Crisis
An organization crisis could be defined as something that involves one or more of the following events: creates a negative impact on the financial condition of the organization; threatens to disrupt or even eliminate product lines; poses as a health risk to employees, consumers or the environment and compromises or obliterates the organization’s reputation. Another …
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Reacting to a crisis: What your frontline managers need to know
A crisis can come to your company’s doorstep in countless ways. From a data security breach, to workplace violence, to a plain old public relations (PR) disaster, your frontline managers should be prepared to respond to a wide range of incidents with a clear head, and a mind for how to secure your employees, your assets, …
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How to Evaluate Plan Effectiveness After Active Shooter Exercises
Having an active shooter plan ready is not enough to prevent an incident from growing worse, or even a guarantee of success during an actual event. A strong active shooter program will involve an evaluation of plan effectiveness through an after-action process following each active shooter exercise – including conducting a new threat assessment, and …
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