As 2020 ends it is a good moment to reflect on the learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic.  Whilst I understand a bit of optimism wrt. the vaccines can help boost morale, it would be a vile act to make the millions of casualties useless by not conducting an honest and truthful exercise to find out what went wrong.  From this, we must change the way we manage global catastrophic risks, it's going to happen again.  And it will be worse. I know, this is a blog about emergency management in the … [Read more...] about COVID-19: when you’re not ready for an emergency

So here we are, seven months of 2020 are gone and this whole COVID-19 pandemic isn't getting better.  What to do with evacuation drills?  Do we postpone them to limit personnel exposure?  Do we actually need to still do them?  Do we carry on desktop exercises instead of emergency drills?  Every situation is different and you may need to come up with you best option. Whilst some work places are in lock down and therefore the need to evacuate the workplace is non-existent, other businesses have … [Read more...] about Evacuation drills and COVID-19