Three Crucial Steps to Ensure Flash Flood Preparedness
From New Orleans to Colorado Springs, over the past few years, we have witnessed the detrimental effects that flash floods have had on our nation. Flash floods are the most common and widespread of all weather-related natural disasters, having the ability to threaten any area with little warning.
Waze Shows Emergency Managers the Way
Every month, Waze guides 65 million travelers through 6.5 million miles of tangled roadways, finding the best routes through expected delays caused by rush hour and construction as well as sudden hazards caused by accidents and detritus in roadways. Crowdsourced, real-time data gathered by the Waze app provide drivers with immediate, dynamic route suggestions. Sudden accident […]
How to Improve Process Discovery in Emergency Management
Process discovery is the first major step toward developing or adapting software that addresses specific needs within your organization. Unfortunately, emergency managers have several liabilities that often prevent them from following these standard best practices for process discovery. In general, this means working with a core group of process owners to define current processes and […]
“Houston, we have a problem.” – Apollo 13 Lessons for How to Act During an Emergency Incident
Most everyone knows the story of Apollo 13, the space craft which, on April 13, 1970, suffered catastrophic damage by a burst oxygen tank two days after leaving Earth’s surface. The three crew members, along with support from their ground team, allowed for a successful return, averting what everyone thought would surely be a fatal […]
Preparedness Leaders, are Your Volunteers Prepared for Emergency Situations?
Citizen participation as public health, medical reserve corps and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers can make the difference in our country’s ability to efficiently respond to a disaster or mass casualty incident. However, for volunteers to enhance emergency preparedness efforts, they must first be trained in the processes to follow and the tools to […]
Cultivating Technology Adoption within Emergency Preparedness
Communication and collaboration are not only critical to raising situational awareness, but can also help with the immediate and long-term effects of events. While many agencies are using software solutions to help in these efforts, research has shown many of them are struggling with user adoption. With any new implementation, company and organization leadership can receive push […]