This document outlines the purpose and benefits of conducting a tabletop exercise (TTE) for water utilities and stakeholders. A TTE involves placing participants in a simulated emergency situation to test response plans and capabilities. The document describes a sample water contamination scenario that was used in a TTE involving a water agency and member utilities. Key lessons from the exercise included the need to update emergency response plans and involve additional stakeholders like health departments. The exercise highlighted the importance of planning and preparedness through collaborative training opportunities like TTEs.
A disaster is a natural or man-made hazard resulting to physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the natural environment
Disaster Risk Management is a broad range of activities (as opposed to disaster management) designed to prevent the loss of lives, minimize human suffering, inform the public and authorities of risk, minimize property damage and economic loss, and speed up the recovery process
The primary objective of this research is to develop a self-organizing communication model for disaster risk management. The model should be able to provide improved communication services between individuals (or groups) during disasters. The model should be able to offer reduced latency, interruptions, and failures in communication
California established the $21 billion Wildfire Fund last year to finance third party liability claims arising from wildfires caused by electrical transmission wires and equipment operated by the state’s three largest investor-owned utilities.
The attached presentation explores:
• How the Wildfire Fund is funded;
• How the Wildfire Fund encourages utilities to make wildfire safety a top priority; and
• How the Wildfire Fund is used to settle claims.
The California Wildfire Fund spreads and smooths the potential cost of more than $20 billion in future wildfire claims across the state’s three largest investor owned utilities, the customers of those utilities and, to a certain extent, homeowners insurers. In doing so, the scheme firmly guides California’s major utilities toward an aggressive commitment to wildfire safety through:
• A mandatory $5 billion shareholder funded investment in risk mitigation;
• Submission of annual risk mitigation plans;
• Standards for safety culture, governance, and executive compensation;
• Additional financial obligations to the Wildfire fund for imprudent actions causing losses; and
• Mandatory liability insurance.
Based on the 'Ten Essentials', this disaster resilience scorecard identifies risk and provides a basis for future investments.
IBM and AECOM have developed the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for the United Nations Making Cities Resilient Campaign, to be available free to any city to enable it to assess its resilience to natural hazards. While some hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis have always been present, others such as floods, hurricanes, tornados or heat events are expected to increase in frequency and severity due to the changing climate. With growing populations and urbanization putting more lives and economic activity in harm’s way, it is imperative that the world’s cities learn to understand and manage the risks that they face. The scorecard provides a mechanism to measure a city’s progress in this activity and allow the city to develop a prioritized list of actions to be taken to improve resilience. This document answers frequently asked questions.
A disaster is a natural or man-made hazard resulting to physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the natural environment
Disaster Risk Management is a broad range of activities (as opposed to disaster management) designed to prevent the loss of lives, minimize human suffering, inform the public and authorities of risk, minimize property damage and economic loss, and speed up the recovery process
The primary objective of this research is to develop a self-organizing communication model for disaster risk management. The model should be able to provide improved communication services between individuals (or groups) during disasters. The model should be able to offer reduced latency, interruptions, and failures in communication
California established the $21 billion Wildfire Fund last year to finance third party liability claims arising from wildfires caused by electrical transmission wires and equipment operated by the state’s three largest investor-owned utilities.
The attached presentation explores:
• How the Wildfire Fund is funded;
• How the Wildfire Fund encourages utilities to make wildfire safety a top priority; and
• How the Wildfire Fund is used to settle claims.
The California Wildfire Fund spreads and smooths the potential cost of more than $20 billion in future wildfire claims across the state’s three largest investor owned utilities, the customers of those utilities and, to a certain extent, homeowners insurers. In doing so, the scheme firmly guides California’s major utilities toward an aggressive commitment to wildfire safety through:
• A mandatory $5 billion shareholder funded investment in risk mitigation;
• Submission of annual risk mitigation plans;
• Standards for safety culture, governance, and executive compensation;
• Additional financial obligations to the Wildfire fund for imprudent actions causing losses; and
• Mandatory liability insurance.
Based on the 'Ten Essentials', this disaster resilience scorecard identifies risk and provides a basis for future investments.
IBM and AECOM have developed the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for the United Nations Making Cities Resilient Campaign, to be available free to any city to enable it to assess its resilience to natural hazards. While some hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis have always been present, others such as floods, hurricanes, tornados or heat events are expected to increase in frequency and severity due to the changing climate. With growing populations and urbanization putting more lives and economic activity in harm’s way, it is imperative that the world’s cities learn to understand and manage the risks that they face. The scorecard provides a mechanism to measure a city’s progress in this activity and allow the city to develop a prioritized list of actions to be taken to improve resilience. This document answers frequently asked questions.
Overview of Business Continuity Planning: Terminology, Rationale, Business Continuity Planning Cycle, Methodology. A high-level description with minimal detail of each of these steps: Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Risk Mitigation Strategy, Business Continuity Plan, Training, Testing and Auditing, and Plan Maintenance.
Whatever the cleaning or restoration need, ServiceMaster Restore meets the highest standards for water damage restoration, flood damage, fire damage repair, smoke damage, mold remediation and disaster planning and recovery services.
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ServiceMaster By Glenn's is here to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year when you need water damage restoration emergency service. Our knowledgable experts and professional services are available in South Florida anytime and anywhere.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
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How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
Emergency Preparedness for Health Commissioners: An Orientation Program for P...James Garrow
A poster presented at 2009 Public Health Preparedness Summit on developing a curriculum for introducing emergency preparedness and response to new public health executives
Overview of Business Continuity Planning: Terminology, Rationale, Business Continuity Planning Cycle, Methodology. A high-level description with minimal detail of each of these steps: Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Risk Mitigation Strategy, Business Continuity Plan, Training, Testing and Auditing, and Plan Maintenance.
Whatever the cleaning or restoration need, ServiceMaster Restore meets the highest standards for water damage restoration, flood damage, fire damage repair, smoke damage, mold remediation and disaster planning and recovery services.
water damage restoration vero beach
ServiceMaster By Glenn's is here to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year when you need water damage restoration emergency service. Our knowledgable experts and professional services are available in South Florida anytime and anywhere.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
Emergency Preparedness for Health Commissioners: An Orientation Program for P...James Garrow
A poster presented at 2009 Public Health Preparedness Summit on developing a curriculum for introducing emergency preparedness and response to new public health executives
4 Environmental Analysis
Charles Dharapak/Associated Press
Organisations don’t exist in a vacuum. They are intricately connected to an
outside world with a constantly changing landscape.
—The Happy Manager
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
• Describe the environmental forces that create change and can influence an HCO’s strategic planning.
• Discuss the impact of legislation on HCO operations and strategic planning.
• Identify the main forces referred to in the five forces model of industry analysis.
• Explain why an HCO should continue to assess external opportunities and threats.
• List different benchmarks that can identify an HCO’s internal strengths and weaknesses.
• Explain the connections between an HCO’s strengths, weaknesses, and distinctive competencies.
• Name the advantages of the Integrated Practice Unit (IPU) as a healthcare delivery method.
Section 4.1External Analysis of Dominant Environmental Driving Forces
Introduction
This chapter discusses the importance and the components of an environmental analysis as
part of the strategic planning process for an HCO. This chapter introduces an external analysis
that uses a PESTLE framework for identifying the elements of the external environment. This
chapter then reviews legislation and governmental initiatives, which have a dramatic impact
on HCOs. Next, “Porter’s five forces” model, which also is known as the five forces model of
industry analysis, is explained and applied to an HCO. Finally, this chapter discusses internal
and external analyses and the use of a SWOT analysis, followed by an examination of how
resources, costs, and distinctive competencies affect strategic planning efforts.
4.1 External Analysis of Dominant
Environmental Driving Forces
It is vital for an HCO to gauge the external environment within which it operates. This, in fact,
should be standard practice for all organizations. Virtually anything that can happen prob-
ably will happen, eventually. We truly have no certainty about what things will be like in the
future, in spite of our attempts to make predictions or forecasts. Still, an HCO cannot afford to
let generalized eventualities and uncertainties keep it from being active in strategic planning,
and changing in response to environmental demands.
PESTLE is an acronym to describe the elements of the external environment that impact
an HCO’s planning process. These elements require specific analysis about their current or
potential impact on the organization’s planning and operations. PESTLE stands for politi-
cal, economic, sociocultural, technological, legal and eco-environmental forces, which exert
strong influences on how an HCO crafts and executes strategic plans. Figure 4.1 shows the
elements of PESTLE.
These elements also interact with each other to create additional ramifications. Consider
medical waste. Medical waste first came to the attention of.
Law Enforcement Role in Response to Sudden Cardiac ArrestDavid Hiltz
The relevance of time to CPR and defibrillation to survival is well established. Furthermore the effectiveness of law enforcement agency (LEA) defibrillation strategies is well demonstrated. Despite this, few LEA have committed to the necessary policy change, training and purchase of equipment. This presentation will review LEA defibrillation best practices as well as results from a survey of LEA in Massachusetts. In reviewing this information the participants will gain insight into LEA attitudes towards resuscitation and aid in the advancement of efforts to utilize LEA in the delivery of lifesaving interventions.
Resiliency Means Business! Resources to Assist Your Water Utilities with Preparedness
Jack Kartez, PhD, Senior Advisor and Emeritus Director, New England Environmental Finance Center, Portland, ME
Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming Workshop - Nov 2015Eric Momanyi
Policy House is pleased to present a workshop on Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming. This workshop will equip researchers, senior climate change program staff, climate negotiators, government officials, policy analysts and researchers with the skills to study climate resilience and design effective climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and green growth.
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1 DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN (DRP) YAIMA THAUREAUX
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2 DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN
A DRP plan is a plan that is established to take actions prior to, during & after any occurrence that
may bring disruption to routine activities
The primary objective in a DRP is to restore activities functioning within the shortest time possible.
A DRP covers procedures to be followed during a disaster and after the disaster such as reporting to
personnel, actions taken to recover operations, and conducting activities after a disaster.
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A DRP may be perceived as a form of preparation for the end of all activities or worst scenarios
(Wallace & Webber, 2017)
National events like the terrorist attacks of 2001 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have focused
attention on the need for recovery planning. Citizens who are physically and mentally healthy are
necessary for any community to recover from a disaster. While there are a plethora of resources to
assist state health agencies in planning for response operations, there are few resources available to
plan for recovery operations. Part of the challenge in developing recovery plans is that it can be
difficult to distinguish between response and recovery activities. While they can be similar, the
intent of the two is different. Disaster response is focused on the immediate need to protect human
life and the physical infrastructure from the immediate effects of the disaster. Recovery, on the
other hand, is broader in scope. The goal of recovery is to ensure the economic sustainability of a
community and the long term physical and mental well-being of its citizens, to rebuild and repair
the physical infrastructure, and to implement mitigation activities to reduce the impact of future
disasters. The state health agency has a key role to play in all of these response and recovery
activities. Any disaster, no matter how large or small, disrupts the daily activity of a community.
Initial response activities are necessary to protect citizens and infrastructure, but recovery activities
allow a community to come back from a disaster. At its core, disaster recovery focuses.
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February, 2020
2 DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN
A DRP plan is a plan that is established to take actions prior to, during & after any occurrence that
may bring disruption to routine activities
The primary objective in a DRP is to restore activities functioning within the shortest time possible.
A DRP covers procedures to be followed during a disaster and after the disaster such as reporting to
personnel, actions taken to recover operations, and conducting activities after a disaster.
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A DRP may be perceived as a form of preparation for the end of all activities or worst scenarios
(Wallace & Webber, 2017)
National events like the terrorist attacks of 2001 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have focused
attention on the need for recovery planning. Citizens who are physically and mentally healthy are
necessary for any community to recover from a disaster. While there are a plethora of resources to
assist state health agencies in planning for response operations, there are few resources available to
plan for recovery operations. Part of the challenge in developing recovery plans is that it can be
difficult to distinguish between response and recovery activities. While they can be similar, the
intent of the two is different. Disaster response is focused on the immediate need to protect human
life and the physical infrastructure from the immediate effects of the disaster. Recovery, on the
other hand, is broader in scope. The goal of recovery is to ensure the economic sustainability of a
community and the long term physical and mental well-being of its citizens, to rebuild and repair
the physical infrastructure, and to implement mitigation activities to reduce the impact of future
disasters. The state health agency has a key role to play in all of these response and recovery
activities. Any disaster, no matter how large or small, disrupts the daily activity of a community.
Initial response activities are necessary to protect citizens and infrastructure, but recovery activities
allow a community to come back from a disaster. At its core, disaster recovery focuses.
2. What is a Tabletop Exercise (TTE)? Focused practice activity that places the participants in a simulated situation requiring them to function in the capacity that would be expected of them in a real event.
3. TTE Purpose Promote preparedness by testing Policies Plans Training personnel Many successful responses to emergencies over the years have demonstrated that exercising pays huge dividends when an emergency occurs
4. After-Action Report – 1995 Bombing The After-Action Report following the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City made the following recommendation regarding problems that were identified in integrating the response efforts of multiple agencies…
5. After-Action Report – 1995 Bombing “Planning, training, and exercising are the only feasible recommendations. If an integrated emergency management system is to be utilized and effective in future disasters, all levels of government must be on the same page of the book. Effective coordination cannot be achieved during the chaos following any disaster. Relationships must be established, plans written and tested, and procedures agreed upon. Regardless of what our particular role is, our mission is the same… to provide effective response and recovery through coordinated logistics, communications, and information support systems.”
6. TTE Benefits Increase readiness in the event of an actual emergency Provide a means to assess effectiveness of response plans and response capabilities Serve as a training tool for response personnel and their involvement with response agencies Provide and opportunities to practice skills and improve individual performance in a non-threatening environment
7. Require participants to network with each other and pre-plan decisions on how to use resources Identify planning conflicts and gaps Identify resources needs and opportunities for sharing of resources Clarify internal and external roles and responsibilities TTE Benefits (cont.)
10. When was the last time…? …you looked at these? …you updated it? Consider the following… Does that person still work there? Didn’t he change positions? We changed cell phone carriers and we all got new phone numbers Do the new employees or newly promoted employees even know where the ERP is?
13. TTE Climate Change Scenarios Extreme Drought Intense Fire in Protected Catchment Extreme Flooding Impact of Freeze Thaw Shift on Main Breaks Scenario Sea Level Rise
14. Importance of TTEs What happens if your go-to person decides to take a vacation overseas? Inaccessible by phone or email Unsure of where to get repair parts for the piece of equipment that never breaks TTEs are more important now than ever. Many organizations are having retirements and with the retirements institutional knowledge is walking out the door
15. Ask yourself… Who would you call from your County, State, or Federal Government if you need assistance? Would you like to know this now rather than 3 AM Sunday morning?
16. Why not conduct a TTE while that institutional knowledge is still there?
17. TTE Exercise Objectives Define or refine participants’ roles and responsibilitiesin regards to managing the consequences of a water contamination incident, which should be reflected in their plans, policies, and procedures and other preparedness elements currently in place or under development Build relationships between utilities and stakeholders Determine neighboring utility infrastructure capabilities and needs
18. TTE Exercise Objectives (cont.) Identify infrastructure coordination requirements of state agencies coordinating under the appropriate Emergency Support Functions Identify other needed enhancements related to training, exercises and other preparedness elements currently in place or under development
19. TTE Roles and Responsibilities (cont.) Players respond to the situation presented based on expert knowledge of response procedures, current plans and procedures, and insights derived from training and experience Facilitatorslead the exercise by presenting the scenario narrative and facilitating the discussion period and “hot wash” (Action-Planning Session or review session) Evaluators monitor the exercise, track accomplishments according to objectives, and may ask questions Observersobserve the exercise but do not participate in the facilitated discussion period
30. Water Contamination Scenario (cont.) The local news reports a generalized increase in stomach flu for the community. Due to several recent intrusions and intentional contamination incidents on drinking water utilities around the region, the drinking water utility staff is concerned. The drinking water utility decides to increase sampling, but during morning briefings, finds that a large percentage of the utility staff are out sick or are at home taking care of sick family members.
31. Water Contamination Scenario (cont.) The agency’s executive director calls in the afternoon stating that there are rumors that the drinking water is the source of the outbreak of illness and that news reports have started to mention drinking water in association with the outbreak. A local hospital calls later in the afternoon and states that laboratory tests are completed and that positive Cryptosporidium resultshad been reported in clinical samples from sick patients.
32. Water Contamination Scenario (cont.) Central Lake County JAWA has called an emergency meeting including participation from Lake County Health Department, along with agency member utilities. An environmental group is asking whether the wastewater plants will be affected by Cryptosporidium and if the treatment plants will be able to remove or kill it before the water is discharged to the environment.
33. Water Contamination Scenario (cont.) The drinking water utility decides to take samples from the water distribution system to send to a laboratory for analysis. The member water utilities that receive water from the potentially affected agency are calling to see if the source of the contamination has been determined. Other drinking water utilities along Lake Michigan are calling to determine whether other utilities may also be at risk.
41. Emergency Response Plans Utility Preparedness Laboratory Support Business Continuity Local and State Coordination Federal Coordination Mutual Aid and Assistance Law enforcement
45. The utilities are reliant on cell phones. A disaster could overwhelm the cell phone system making communications difficult.
46.
47. Most Common Complaint Insufficient information This is exactly what happens during an emergency situation. You are being asked to make decisions with insufficient information.
48. One more thing… Wouldn’t you rather plan prior to the emergency and know that you have some sort of plan?
49. Questions? Robert L. Martin, P.E. Water Services Director Alfred Benesch & Company 312-565-0450 rmartin@benesch.com 205 N. Michigan Avenue Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60601
Editor's Notes
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