Hospitals
Developing a comprehensive and functional guide to managing emergency operations can be a daunting task. LRG can help with emergency preparedness, training courses, and more.
Business
Protecting your people, information and operations has never been more important. LRG can help you assess your risks, develop plans, training programs, and exercises based on resiliency strategies that will ensure your continuity of operations.
Government
LRG provides seasoned consultants with actual emergency experience to work with your organization to ensure that your plan is fully compliant with any local, state and/or federal requirements.
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Three Disaster Preparedness Resolutions For 2013
New year, new resolutions, new procedures. The end of the old year and start of the new year always brings new promises and cleaning out of methods and plans. So this year shouldn’t be any different. We’ve seen enough big incidents, disasters, and emergencies in 2012 that if you’re not concerned enough to take a ...
Why You Need An Emergency Plan
The recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, CT demonstrated, if nothing else, the urgent need for every business, every school, and every organization to have an emergency plan to use in dire situations. This is different from the COOPs (continuity of operations plans) and disaster preparedness plans we have been discussing on ...
What To Do In An Active Shooting Situation (Jay Dotson on WXIN)
Our expert trainer, Jay Dotson, recently spoke with WXIN59, our local FOX affiliate, about what to do during an active shooting situation, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, CT. Dotson said that active shooting situations tend to have some statistical facts about them, and that law enforcement officials gauge ...
Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Geared Toward Long-Term Recovery?
How far into the future does your disaster recovery plan go? Most recovery plans only look a few months into the future, if they actually have a duration at all. At Lighthouse Readiness Group, we’ve found that many plans wend their way into an indeterminate future, but are missing a couple of important features. When ...
Encourage Employees to Take Time Off When They’re Sick
A couple days ago, we talked about how the CDC is reporting higher than normal flu activity in some parts of the country, which at this time of year are already higher than they were for the entire flu season last year. We asked whether your COOP included a section on how to operate when ...
Does Your COOP Cover The Flu?
It’s an early start to flu season, says the CDC, and they’re expecting this season to be a hard one. We’ve already wrapped up National Influenza Vaccination Week (December 2 – 8, 2012), and the CDC says they have already seen significant flu activity with 48 states plus Puerto Rico reporting many cases of “laboratory-confirmed ...
Crisis Communication in the Age of Social Media
In our last post, we talked about three crisis communication social media lessons from 2012. We wanted to expand a little bit more on how social media has become a necessary part of crisis communication, so you understand how important it has become. Let’s say your government agency or organization is responding to a major ...
Three Social Media Crisis Communication Lessons from 2012
Social media has certainly been in the news a lot this year, whether it was Facebook’s poor IPO or Donald Trump’s post-election Twitter meltdown. When you start to look at some of the social media discussions and chatter taking place during some major current events, you realize that social media is playing an important role ...
Do We Lack The Will to Prepare?
Bobby Knight once said, “The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” A recent blog post on ABetterEmergency.com (which also featured that quote), asked whether “those in the position of influence to affect change really have the will to prepare to ...
Sandy Shows Hospitals Unprepared for Their Own Emergencies
Superstorm Sandy revealed a lot about New York hospitals when disaster struck: according to a Reuters story, many of them were unprepared for dealing with their own emergencies. Several hospitals that were in the flood zones were without power and forced to evacuate their patients, including 725 patients from Bellevue Hospital. Stories of ambulance drivers ...
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