Countless dollars and work hours are spent on updating emergency plans. But are all these constant revisions truly necessary or is there a better way to keep plans current?
Are criminal charges against corporations sufficient or should we hold executives personally accountable for bad decisions?
Botterell’s Third Law of Emergency Management warns that no matter who you train, someone else will show up. What do you do when that person shows up at your emergency operations center during a crisis and you can’t spare the time to train them?
Focus is a good thing but too much of anything can cause problems.
An exercise is useless without an evaluation that identifies critical areas for improvement. But many facilitators fail to make full use of the post-exercise debriefing or “hot wash.”
United flight attendants fired last year for raising security concerns have reached a settlement that vindicates their actions. But was all this really necessary?
Group decision making is different from crisis decision making and requires a documented process to reduce potential conflicts.
Using smart phones and crowd sourcing, Berkeley scientists may soon be able to provide early warning about severe earthquakes.
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An investigation by a major newspaper revealed a major flaw in a transportation security system. But should this information have been made public?