Crisis Management

2019nCoV Situational Awareness: How is that Working for you?

Regina Phelps | January 31, 2020

Situational awareness is the ability to identify, process and comprehend the critical elements of information regarding an incident. In other words, it’s knowing what is going on around you. Situational awareness requires two distinct activities: Collect and validate the information: This requires you to observe, acquire and compile the information Process the information: You must assess the information and orient yourself to all of the possible impacts Collect and Validate Information You need to collect information from internal and external sources. Internal Sources What do you need to know from all of your locations? You need to carefully consider these…
multi-hazard early warning systems
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