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Please take a few minutes and review these questions. Is
YOUR orginization prepared to handle a crisis?
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Do you have a functional Crisis
Management Plan defining procedures for addressing both the tactical and
strategic aspects of predictable crisis events?
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| 2. |
Do you have a current Crisis Management
Organization chart that defines the positions and position holders for
predictable crisis events? |
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Do you have realistic Crisis financial
delegations of authority to promote rapid and comprehensive response by your
organization, starting at the incident site? |
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Do you have Crisis Public Affairs
delegations of authority to promote rapid and comprehensive communication
efforts by your organization, starting at the incident site? |
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Do you have a Crisis Medical Policy that
addresses impacts of crisis events to civilians, contractors and others
potentially impacted by a crisis? |
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Do you have a Crisis Human Resources
Policy that addresses impacts of predictable crisis events to employees,
contractors, neighbors and others who could be impacted by a crisis? |
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Do you have a Crisis Claims Policy that
focuses on treating people with courtesy and respect while seeking to resolve
claims issues? |
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Have you conducted a worst case Crisis
training exercise in the past twelve months to confirm organizational readiness
to respond to all aspects of predictable crisis events? |
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Have you trained side-by-side with the
outside, non-organizational teams you would respond with in real Crisis events? |
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Has your organization fully considered
the image and reputation potential of predictable Crisis events and developed
contingencies to reduce the negative impacts of such events? |
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Do you have a Crisis Response Template
for managing violence in the workplace? |
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Do you have a Crisis
Response Template for managing the psychological impacts of predictable crisis
events? |
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If you are uncomfortable with your answers to these questions,
contact us.
We will help or give you direction in finding the answers you are looking for.
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