The Importance of Documenting Training and Exercises
In this 19th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob has a chat from home about the importance of documenting your training and exercises.
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 and an explosion occurs. 5 dead and 10 seriously injured. A crisis becomes a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has required organizations to form new routines. Many crisis management team members are working remotely and have now become used to the comfort of their home office, the convenience of Zoom meetings and all sorts of other new procedures driven by defensive measures taken against the pandemic. Our new routines certainly have…
Cautionary Tales from Morgan Stanley and the U.S. Olympic Committee From big corporations to non-profits, from government entities like the U.S. Congress to schools and universities, all types of organizations are firing high-profile men for sexual misconduct. Whether the firings are justified or not is a big question, but either way, one of two crises…
When Geopolitics Becomes a Business Disruption In 2026, organizations including Stryker Corporation were reported to have experienced cyber incidents linked to Iranian-aligned threat actors, alongside confirmed targeting of U.S. water systems, healthcare providers, and industrial infrastructure – signaling a shift toward sector-wide disruption rather than isolated attacks. While attribution in these cases is often still…
Like in most sectors, technology is moving at a crazy pace in the word of crisis preparedness. Where will we be in 5 to 10 years from now? How will responding to and managing incidents evolve? We get to answer a number of these questions in this interview with Michael Sher the Founder of GroupDoLists…
Some major corporations have formal crisis management teams with very experienced employees that have been exposed to various corporate crises throughout their careers. However, a significant number of organizations don’t have any crisis management capability at all. Or, if they have a capability in place, they have a less-than-effective program because of poor planning, ineffective…
Thank you for your comment, Allan. We often call those lessons “lessons-to-be-learned”
We have recognised this challenge by Site Leaders
Review of the training conducted, the lessons learned and the actions to improve with an action closure plan and persons assigned to close out actions