Oct 3, 2017 | Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Emergency Management, Security, Tabletop Exercises
In today’s multi-billion dollar sports and entertainment industry, the need for ongoing event staff training cannot be underscored. The threats, challenges, and vulnerabilities continue for those entrusted with duty of care responsibilities within the...
Sep 21, 2017 | Crisis Management, Emergency Management
“With every mistake, we must surely be learning.” ~ George Harrison (While My Guitar Gently Weeps) The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is becoming one of the most active seasons on record, thanks to a stretch of long-lived, destructive hurricanes over the past five...
Sep 6, 2017 | Crisis Communications, Crisis Management
Guest blogger: Brad Cole, CFE & LPI, Executive Director & Senior Coordinator, K9 First Responders, Inc. (K9FR) A crisis unfolds. A hurricane hits your facility. You prepare and respond. So far… under control. A natural gas line ruptures, fire starts...
Aug 29, 2017 | Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Exercises, Podcast, Tabletop Exercises
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSCrises can strike without warning. Some incidents are slower and we can often start our response early. No matter what the situation is, we need to do more to prepare our businesses,...
Aug 21, 2017 | Crisis Communications, Crisis Management
They’ve weathered the storms, but could their crises have been avoided altogether? What lessons can crisis communicators draw from the recent VW “dieselgate” crisis and United Airlines’ spate of public relations disasters, most notably its violent removal of a...
Aug 9, 2017 | Crisis Communications, Crisis Management
Guest contributor: Jo Detavernier, SCMP, APR – VP and Partner with Swyft. When a crisis hits, the spokesperson or (in a larger organization), the Crisis Communications Team, sees itself under immense pressure to respond quickly to demands for information from...
