Emergency Management Are Community Lifelines Changing the Way We Approach Disasters? January 25, 2022 by Addison Shaw The FEMA Community Lifelines outline seven basic functions and structures communities rely on to survive. Emergency management practitioners have always been aware of the webs of continuity in communities; the Community Lifelines framework brings those connections to the forefront and helps all stakeholders work within the response. Read more »
Emergency Management Pandemic Ramp-up Covid-19 Test Kit Distribution in Your Town January 18, 2022 by Addison Shaw What those testing kits packages from federal and state governments lack is a solid plan for distribution. While some towns and cities may be able to repurpose old processes or current infrastructure for this task, many others are left wondering how they can get this shipment of supplies out to their residents. Read more »
Emergency Management Healthcare First Responder Panel: Hear from Veoci’s Own Fire, Emergency Management, and EMS Responders January 13, 2022 by Camryn Gaudett For those who have never worked as a first responder, it's difficult to understand what a day, or night, in the lives of those who arrive on the scene of an emergency first really looks like from the inside. Hearing these stories firsthand from responders on the Veoci team. Read more »
Emergency Management Utilities USC’s Great Shakeout: Conducting A Successful Campus-Wide Earthquake Drill December 16, 2021 by Camryn Gaudett The University of Southern California (USC) is a long-time participant of the Great ShakeOut. This year, however, USC decided to execute their exercise differently, completely running the drill from start to finish utilizing their new emergency management software: Veoci. Read more »
Emergency Management Healthcare Establishing Stronger Resilience in Long-Term Care Facilities September 2, 2021 by Addison Shaw In the past few decades, resilience has come together through emergency management and business continuity programs. The understanding professionals hold of program must-haves has also changed over time in response to new environmental, political, and regulatory landscapes. Read more »
Emergency Management Atlas Air’s Virtual Method of Collaboration and Response July 8, 2021 by Camryn Gaudett Eric Rynerson, Lead Safety Investigator at Atlas Air, took on the task of transforming and digitizing the organization's Emergency Response Center (ERC). Like many organizations of its kind, its growth increased the complexity of coordinating an efficient response to emergencies. Luckily, Veoci seemed to be able to help. Read more »
Emergency Management Healthcare Utilities Planning for All Hazards: How Texas SB1614 May Reframe Resilience for Long Term Care July 1, 2021 by Lance Lynch Very few organizations need to be ‘told' that they need to revisit and streamline their emergency management and business continuity plans any longer; laws reinforce the idea, and new Texas legislation puts the idea of resilience under a new light. Read more »
Emergency Management How the NOAA GFS Upgrades Benefit Emergency Planners June 7, 2021 by Addison Shaw In March 2021, (NOAA) unveiled the latest update to the agency's weather forecasting infrastructure: WaveWatchIII. This upgrade will help NOAA and other weather forecasting entities predict weather-related disasters. Read more »
Emergency Management Celebrating Public Safety Communicators April 16, 2021 by Addison Shaw Public safety telecommunicators also play important roles in EOCs across the country; their functions within the EOC supply critical information to emergency managers, other EOC players, and citizens as part of the response process. Let's take a look at that role during this year's National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. Read more »
Emergency Management Pandemic How NYU Maintains a Common Operating Picture During COVID-19 March 2, 2021 by Camryn Gaudett With just under 59,000 enrolled students and over 19,000 employees, planning and responding to the pandemic have been a challenge, but the NYU team has found a way of controlling the situation and maintaining a common operating picture throughout the organization. Read more »
