Exercises — A Critical Part of Your Emergency Planning

I’ve had the privilege of interacting with many different organizations in the past year including current clients, prospective clients, attendees at emergency planning workshops, and other similar functions. What was somewhat surprising to me were the number of companies who had an emergency plan, but have never exercised it. One critical aspect of creating an emergency plan is to test it. Most realize that they should, however they have not for any number of reasons. When thinking about exercises, several parallels come to mind: • Not exercising your plan is like reading the driver’s manual, but never getting into...

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