Planning Emergency Response

This seminar helps delegates to develop and implement procedures for responding to and stabilizing the situation following an incident or event. This includes establishing an Emergency Operations Centre to be used as a command center during the emergency.

Objectives

To provide

Why you should attend

This one-day workshop is a crucial pre-requisite to disaster recovery, business continuity and crisis management planning. The emergency services can have a profound effect on your plans - both imposing constraints and providing a real depth of supporting activities.

Who should attend

Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Security Managers; Emergency Planners; Premises, Facilities and Property Managers; Information Technology Managers; consultants and vendors of business continuity services.


How you and your organisation will benefit.

You will learn emergency response techniques, activities and practices and understand how the emergency services work: what their roles and command structure are and how best you can interact with them. The workshop complies with the Business Continuity Institute standards.

Programme

  • Identify potential types of emergency (e.g. fire, hazardous materials leak) and the responses needed
  • Identify appropriate Emergency Response Procedures and recommend their development where none exist
  • Integrate Emergency Response Procedures with the BC Plan
  • Identify emergency command and control requirements
  • Recommend the development of command and control procedures to define roles, authority, and communications processes for managing the emergency
  • Co-ordination of emergency preparations, response, recovery, resumption and restoration procedures with local authorities
  • Establishing liaison procedures for emergency/disaster scenarios
  • Maintaining current knowledge of laws and regulations concerning emergency procedures.

Public authorities may include local and government bodies; Health and Safety and environmental authorities; local and national emergency authorities; police, fire and ambulance services; hospitals; inspectorates and compliance authorities and regulators.

Workshop Leader

Andrew Hiles or Ian Carman

 

Books by Kingswell Consultants

Books on Service Management

Hiles, A. N. The Complete Guide to IT Service Level Agreements, Matching Service Quality to Business Needs.. ISBN 0-9641648-2-5 published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The standard work on IT Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. E-Business Service Level Agreements: Strategies for ISPs, ASPs, *SPs and CLECS.  Published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The first book to deal specifically with e-commerce Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. Service Level Agreements, Winning a Competitive Edge for Supply and Support Services.  ISBN 0-9641648-4-1published by Rothstein Associates Inc. This book applies Service Level Agreements to services other than IT. Real case studies and example SLAs are provided ranging from Human Resources, Logistics, through Training, Livestock Handling, Logistics and Field Service Engineering.

Hiles A.N. and Gunn, Dr. Y. Creating a Customer-Focused Help Desk: How to Win and Keep Your Customers. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-6-8 This book has the support of the Help Desk Institute www.helpdeskinst.com

Books on Business Continuity

Hiles A.N. Business Continuity Management: Best Practice. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-3-3.  This book explicitly covers all the ten areas of business continuity competence required for membership of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) and the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

Hiles A.N. Enterprise Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis – Best Practices ISBN 1-931332-12-6 Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. Covers many techniques and methods of risk and impact assessment with detailed examples and checklists.

e-Publication. Kingswell books on Business Continuity, Service Level Agreements and  Help Desk Management will shortly be available by page download in conjunction with Rothstein Associates Inc and Books24x7.com.

New and updated books. Existing  books Business Continuity Management – Best Practice and IT Service Level Agreements have been extensively updated. See our products page or visit www.rothstein.com .

All the above books can be obtained from:

Rothstein Associates Inc.
4 Arapaho Road
Brookfield
Connecticut
0608-3104 USA

www.rothstein.com

e-mail pjr@rothstein.com

Telephone: USA: 1-888-ROTHSTEIN
Worldwide: +1 203 740 7400

Hiles A.N. Guide to Risk Management. Published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Hiles A.N. and Barnes, P. (Editor and main contributor) The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management, John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN 0 471 98622 4.

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Croner’s Purchasing and Supply Guide to I.T., 1994, ISBN 1 85524 271 0

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Guide to Business Continuity Management, 1999, for the Confederation of British Industry by Caspian Publishing

Hiles A.N. (contributor) Business Continuity Management, 2000, Institute of Directors / Department of Trade & Industry.

 

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