With resuming in-person services comes risks and concerns about health and safety. To keep employees and workers safe, many facilities are using temperature checks as a form of preliminary screening to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. One of the methods that have become increasingly popular is thermal scanning. Thermal scanning is unique in that it… [Read More…]
Disaster Preparedness
The Whole Community: Disaster Volunteerism
In the last three blogs, Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster, Organizational Disaster Resilience: A Team Sport, and Individual Preparedness: An Imperative, we looked at what it takes to prepare our organizations for disasters, how to engage the teams, and how to prepare at the individual level. In this final blog, we will explore… [Read More…]
Individual Preparedness: An Imperative
Unless operating a factory run by robots, every organization’s most valuable resource is people. Nowhere is this truer than in healthcare. And when disaster strikes, the service that healthcare organizations provide to their communities can increase exponentially. In the last two blogs, Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster and Organizational Disaster Resilience: A Team… [Read More…]
Organizational Disaster Resilience: A Team Sport
In the last blog post, Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster, we took a 50,000-foot view of emergency preparedness, emergency management/business continuity programs, and the hazard assessments that drive them all. Each of these serves as critical components in an organization’s overall preparedness for disasters if or when they occur, but in this blog… [Read More…]
Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster?
Is your organization prepared for a disaster? Disasters can strike at any time. While we do not get to choose the time or place where they may wreak havoc, affect our personal and family safety, or impact our businesses and communities, we can choose to have a plan and to be prepared. Over the… [Read More…]
