tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17588376251889448692012-01-27T19:12:36.353-08:00The PREFERRED informal site on Emergency Management discussions and Business Continuity solutions!Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-52527091043306939812012-01-27T19:07:00.001-08:002012-01-27T19:12:36.365-08:00

Extracted from The Straits Times on 28 Jan 2012: Motorists driving through the new Woodsville Tunnel will be protected by state-of-the-art fire-fighting technology that can unleash a deluge of water at the touch of a button. The $3.5 million system can be activated from a control centre, and is designed to tackle the flames before they have chance to grow too big. Sensors and cameras have been

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Ever wondered how much Business Continuity professionals ought to be compensated? Or how about if there is any real difference between a certified or "non certified" BC professional? I've managed to secure a draft compensation report. However, do note it's only limited to Canada practitioners. Here's the download link: http://www.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/5/2/3752086/

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-82242164888510835922012-01-02T05:09:00.001-08:002012-01-02T05:09:45.075-08:00

I recently came back from a short trip in Japan and given my hopeless capability in speaking the Japanese language, it became a convenient habit of me to approach anyone and converse in English hoping that the locals could understand what I was trying to say and respond in kind. As someone who often looks out for common building features and observing cultures of other countries pertaining to

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-62265253057618132782010-07-10T11:55:00.000-07:002010-07-24T01:44:49.119-07:00

Well,I was going through my PC and came across a footage my pals recorded back when I was still in the ARFF units :)Typically, its a process we call "pump and roll". One that involves any of the deployed foam tenders to discharge its foam compund onto the intended "fire target" while rolling around and closer to the aircraft.Do note that not all foam tenders can perform such a maneouver and it

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-73938226877943643082009-09-11T20:49:00.000-07:002009-09-11T21:07:05.310-07:00

It's been quite some time since the H1N1 pandemic has been the talk of the town in the emergency planning arena as well as in everyone's surrounding community.At the current moment, we do know that countries such as China will be mass producing (or have already started) vaccines that may possibly minimise and hopefully eliminate the H1N1 strain of virus to some targetted groups of its population.

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-9365475470362757872009-07-16T21:19:00.000-07:002009-07-16T21:33:57.248-07:00

Despite past bombing events at Jakarta or in the Indonesian region, terrorists (as it seems to be for now) have once again struck a successful blow to the tourism industry at The Ritz Carlton, JW Marriots. All this taking place even with the current ramped up security and anti-terrorism measures by the country and the security agencies.As this blog is being posted, I am being swamped with live

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-91315671979918001162009-07-07T08:40:00.000-07:002009-07-07T08:55:21.705-07:00

Singapore is currently working on a 3 day duration national level emergency management exercise, codenamed "Exercise North Star VII", which will see the involvement as well as actual deployment of various Home Front agencies (think Police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force).Held annually to test the Home Front agencies' capabilities as well as response level, this series of exercise also aims

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-6724667229553735692009-06-17T21:32:00.001-07:002009-06-17T21:44:36.989-07:00

Are you in an Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting (ie, ARFF) unit?Is your unit's primary mission solely to respond to aviation incident and disasters?To what extent does your ARFF unit respond and gets itself involved when it comes to "unique" situations?These are some of the questions you'll need to ask yourself if you're a real ARFF responder. Seriously.I recall my early days in my ARFF

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-1620386338885377592009-06-08T08:59:00.000-07:002009-06-08T09:12:55.896-07:00

Yes it's true. No, you're not dreaming.But can they do it the way professional fire-fighters can?Well, it seems in an article I read by "Asian Security Review", the Potala Palace located in Lhasa, Tibet has been marked as a major fire risk due to its architectural design and construction, which consists mainly of wood. You can bet it's highly combustible considering the grandeur in its design, as

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-72488448268682701882009-06-05T22:07:00.000-07:002009-06-05T22:32:24.351-07:00

There was a recent media coverage regarding the training of "elite" fire-fighters in Singapore. This was to allow the general population to understand how the whole process of selecting elite fire-fighters are done.To be specific, it's the selection of D.A.R.T. personnels. Or, better known as "Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team" personnels.For those who belong to this unit, or know of anyone

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-67827604736897463012009-05-18T21:49:00.001-07:002009-05-18T22:10:21.317-07:00

BCM Vs EM. What's that?If you're in the field of emergency management or emergency response long enough, you'd probably be able to guess that it literally means "Business Continuity Management versus Emergency Management". Nothing anymore complicated as that.Have you ever come across situations where folks in our field (or maybe not) have been using these terms loosely? Having said that, is there

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-5745364360773647252009-05-14T22:36:00.000-07:002009-05-14T22:46:58.369-07:00

It's been nearly a week plus or so, since my country initiated DORSCON Alert "Orange" and since then, has already scaled down to Alert "Yellow".What does this mean?Essentially, national resources would not be as strained as before, with more of these resources and other government efforts devouted to other much more critical tasks. Internally as an organisation, you can definitely say that the

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-19367186554523939302009-05-07T20:46:00.000-07:002009-05-07T20:53:11.711-07:00

Currently, WHO has signalled that the current strain of influenza virus H1N1 may not be deemed as deadly as before. And judging by the symptoms shown by suspected victims in reported countries, they all seem to be in a rather "stable" and controlled condition.Pending WHO's final decision, my country may similarly scale down on it's current DORSCON level from "Orange" status back down to "Yellow".

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-30209413702655735432009-04-30T20:16:00.000-07:002009-04-30T20:27:45.574-07:00

Currently as I write this post, my country's been upgraded to DORSCON Alert "Orange" in response to WHO's upgrading of the (now known as) H1N1 flu pandemic virus.At my station, we've stepped up the relevant preparedness measures in accordance to my organisation's business continuity plan.These steps include:a) Screening all incoming reporting duty crew and isolating them in a designated isolation

Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282074417515410756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758837625188944869.post-14267151466112260472009-03-30T09:25:00.000-07:002012-01-02T04:54:39.469-08:00

Emergency Responder....Good day! It's taken me quite a while to proceed with setting up this blog site. The main reason being that I'm not really that comfortable in blogging and more often, folks like us tend to be more 'operational' or (for some of us) more 'hands on' in our approach to problem solving. Anyway, I figured that since I've been in this industry for quite awhile, I felt that I may

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