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Preparing for Crises within Healthcare – An Interview with William Dunne
In episode 112 of the podcast, we interviewed William Dunne Lead Expert Crisis Management and Emergency Services expert at Penn State Health. William spoke about his wealth of experience in emergency and crisis management. Topics covered ranged from planning, crisis...
How to Design and Deliver Engaging and Successful Tabletop Exercises
In episode 111 of the podcast, we interviewed Lester Chng of BMO Financial. We covered some good ground in this episode. Lester talks about his career as well as scenario planning through well designed tabletop and other types of simulation exercises. Lester has some...
Finding Gaps During Exercises and Creating a Remediation Plan
In episode 110 Rob discusses the importance of creating a remediation plan after you have completed you after action report from your exercise or real incident. More Content: Remediation Planning Blog Post
Finding Gaps During Simulation Exercises: Now What?
Once the crisis response simulation exercise has identified gaps in crisis management planning, leaders must work to create and implement a plan to remediate these findings. This can include creating additional processes or protocols, staffing up crisis teams with...
Fire Drills – an Interview with Jack Murphy
In episode 109 Rob interviews Jack Murphy a Former Fire Chief from New Jersey. Jack’s background in fire safety and emergency preparedness planning for buildings is second to none. Related Articles:...
Workplace Emergency Drills
In episode 108 Rob discuss the importance of emergency drills within the workplace. From fire drills in the post-covid era to active shooter drills, Rob breaks down easy-to-follow steps that will help you create your own emergency drill program. Link:...
Essential Emergency Drills for the Workplace
When was the last time your workplace had an emergency drill? If you can't remember, or if it's been a while since your business has conducted one, you're not alone. Many businesses don't think about emergency drills until there’s an actual emergency – a huge yet...
The Real Cost of Creating and Delivering Tabletop Exercises
In episode 107 of the podcast Rob discusses the real cost of designing, delivering and evaluation tabletop exercises. He breaks down the costs and gives dollar amounts for each step of the process. Check out the Blog: The Real Cost of a Tabletop Exercise: What Goes...
The Real Cost of a Tabletop Exercise: What Goes Into Creating a Successful One
According to IBM's 2022 Data Breach Report, the average cost of a breach in the US is $9.44 million. The report goes on to state that you can save millions of dollars by having a plan and testing it. “$2.66 million,” the report states, “(is) the average cost savings...
Crisis Management Programs an Interview with Shane Mathew
In Episode 106 of the podcast, we interviewed Shane Mathew Head of Enterprise Resilience at Zoom and Host of the Failover Plan Podcast. Shane spoke about his career so far as wells as crisis management planning. Shane summarizes what should be in a crisis management...
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