Tag: emergency plan
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Why are we calling emergencies “incidents”?
This week the AP style book suggested that writers should not refer to emergencies as “incidents.” This caused some good chatter among emergency and risk management professionals, who say incident all the time, so much so that the word is encoded in systems for managing emergencies (FEMA encourages all emergency management organizations to use a…
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Should you be assessing risk like NASA?
There are a variety of metrics we can use to assess the risks and benefits of decisions. Informally, I love a good pro-con list, but for NASA, risk assessment is a matter of life, death, and millions of dollars, so it’s unsurprising that they have a method for rating risk scope and likelihood. Here are…
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What goes in the office emergency plan?
Recent emergencies have got me thinking about office emergency protocols. That’s probably because the other week I was driving to campus when I received a text alert about a bomb threat to the building next to my office. Huh, I thought. Do I keep driving in? I ended up turning around and heading home to…
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