Event: Hurricane HazelDate: 12-16 October 1954Summary: The hurricane had taken 500 lives as it crossed Haiti and the eastern US. But Toronto’s weather forecast for the 15th and 16th said the storm had weakened and would only bring light rain. Although most people in Ontario associated hurricanes with the tropics, there had been 25 tropical
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Event: Siege of Iranian Embassy, LondonDate: 30 April 1980Summary: Six armed men stormed the embassy, taking 29 hostages and making various demands on the new Khomeini government. Police responded to an alarm, they knocked on the door and the head terrorist told them to go away. Crowds of Iranians arrived and began chanting support for
27 Jul
A Case Study: The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion, 19,000 feet up, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Date: 28 January 1986 Summary: The problem with the flight became evident at seventy seconds after lift-off, right after the ‘throttle-up’ exchange between mission control in Houston and Commander Richard Scobee. NASA scheduled press briefings and then postponed. One official said it had been a good weather day (despite the icicles seen on the spacecraft
Event: TWA 800 Crash, Long Island, New YorkDate: 17 July 1996Summary: About twenty minutes after takeoff, at about 14,000 feet, the Boeing 747 crashed into the water. The plane had spent double its projected lifespan— 10 years—in the air. TWA and the plane had a good safety record. Some investigators settled on terrorism as the
Event: Volcanic Eruption, Krakatoa, Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java Date: 27 August 1883 Summary Thought to be extinct, the volcano on the island of Krakatoa erupted with such force that it caused a 120-foot tidal wave. Five cubic miles of rocks flew 17 miles in the air. The shockwaves circled the earth seven times.
Date: 23-30 August, 2005 Summary: The storm began over the Bahamas, strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico, then weakened before hitting land for the second time on the morning of August 29. The worst damage in New Orleans occurred when the levee system failed, with many failures after the hurricane had moved inland. Eighty per
On February 6th, 2023, Turkey and Syria experienced a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, killing tens of thousands of people. It is a reminder to prepare ourselves for any disasters that could come our way.
10 Jan
Auckland
Auckland’s Emergency Management Group Plan is a wake-up call for the rest of the world. In my study of 100 urban emergency plans from the top English-speaking cities in the world, none face up to lack of preparedness the way Auckland does. Auckland’s plan notes that only about 7% of its residents are prepared for
24 Dec
E V A C U A T I O N
Urban designers ignore ordinary people’s preferences. The evidence is the well-worn pedestrian path through vegetation. This shows how people actually want to use an urban space. There’s a term for “foot worn dirt paths scuffed across pristine grass” as noted in a recent Financial Times article entitled “World’s most impractical buildings?” These are called “desire
06 Dec
Avant la crise…
Parce que gérer une crise passe aussi par l’anticipation, je vous propose aujourd’hui quelques conseils simples afin de vous familiariser à l’exercice.
From internal security to checking your insurance to filling out forms – these are the areas that you or your business or organization should be thinking about in order to ensure your cyber security is intact and you are well-aware of following safe cyber practices. Internal Security Digital Liability Organizational Structures Response Systems Planning Ahead
L’organisation est l’une des clés lors de situations de crise. C’est pourquoi je vous propose un schéma simple mais efficace qui reprend les principaux pôles d’action à mettre en place en priorité.
The thoughtful cyber-consultant, evaluator, or internal manager has quite a bit of work to do—with little to no time to spare. There is also the added pressure from industry, government, and super-governments (EU, OECD, UN, etc.) to take action, especially in high need areas such as critical infrastructure, medicine, nuclear power, and such. There is
29 Mar
Radio Prep
Most often I ad lib on radio and TV or in newspaper interviews. But, in the back of my mind is former CBS TV anchor Walter Cronkite’s old quote that there’s no such thing as an ad lib. There might be a turn of a phrase you’ve never made in that exact way, but you
Interview of Allan Bonner on Sirius Radio about the COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out
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An activity usually has a justification. In organizations a program, policy, or habitual way of doing things is often a result of patent letters, articles of association, board resolutions, heads of arrangement or some other enabling document or action that created the organization and gave it a mission. Missions sometimes are clarified or changed as
Sometimes sometimes a crisis can have an unexpected beginning. In the middle of the night, on the West Coast, the proverbial little old lady awoke in some discomfort. She grabbed for her familiar over-the-counter pain reliever. She fumbled with a few items on her night table, got some water, took the tablets and went back
Why is risk communication important when writing emergency plans?
Allan Bonner and commentator Robin Sears discuss the unique leadership challenges in this pandemic, how leadership sometimes falls short in meeting those challenges, and what leaders need to do going forward.