Articles Tagged with ''emergency management''

A critical part of ensuring adequate, safe and reliable operations amid a crisis includes comprehensive tabletop exercises to demonstrate and assess capabilities before an event occurs.

Mandatory safety drills for cruise ship passengers are changing on Carnival Cruise Lines. What has traditionally been a large group exercise involving everyone on the ship at once, will now be completed by passengers on their own time.

Beebe Healthcare system in southern Delaware partnered with the Delaware National Guard and other agencies to simulate two emergency drills as part of its preparedness planning.

After staying on during the transition of the previous Director of Emergency Management for the state of Florida, Kevin Guthrie was asked to assume the permanent role.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Managing Director and Chief Security Officer Stephen D. Baker, CPP, and his entire security function provided strategy and risk leadership with ongoing risk assessments and mitigation strategies at the State Street Corporation. This allowed the company to continue its global operations, placed workers at ease and supported State Street clients’ needs without disruption throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

ADM and its security team, including Kevin Wujek, Insider Threat Coordinator, tapped into existing data, both inside the company and publicly available, to enable informed decision-making and real-time insight into the company’s COVID-19 pandemic response plan including contact tracing, location insight and information, and facility occupancy.

Marriott International’s largest Marriot property in the world, the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville needed a security upgrade at its sprawling campus to enhance security and efficiency, and its risk management operations. Learn about the resort’s video surveillance and video management system installation.

Business resilience programs may not generate revenue for organizations, but will most certainly create awareness, change a responsiveness culture into a preparedness culture, cut expenditure, save time and minimize reputational impact – not if, but when improbable circumstances become reality.

A small, private college in Ohio, Cedarville University implemented its Caring Well, Staying Well plan to help students return to campus safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to mandating masks, coordinating outdoor and virtual worship services and other initiatives, Cedarville University deployed Wi-Fi based occupancy sensors to help students and staff reduce crowds and maintain social distancing at its on-campus dining facilities.