1 / 18

Private Sector's Role in Disaster Response

Private Sector's Role in Disaster Response. 2013 Kentucky Inclusive Emergency Preparedness Conference Alec Waugh CBCP CISA CIA Fruit of the Loom Bowling Green, KY. Agenda. Common Pieces Businesses and Disasters Business Features Examples Future Discussion. Common Pieces. Courage.

portia
Download Presentation

Private Sector's Role in Disaster Response

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Private Sector's Role in Disaster Response 2013 Kentucky Inclusive Emergency Preparedness Conference Alec Waugh CBCP CISA CIA Fruit of the Loom Bowling Green, KY

  2. Agenda • Common Pieces • Businesses and Disasters • Business Features • Examples • Future • Discussion

  3. Common Pieces

  4. Courage “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” Actor – John Wayne

  5. Active “Do or do not. There is no try.” Jedi Master Yoda

  6. Common Sense “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” President Abraham Lincoln

  7. Challenges “If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” Basketball – Pat Riley

  8. Goals “All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.” Daniel Boone

  9. Businesses and Disasters

  10. Businesses and Disasters • Declared major disasters more than doubled in recent years – Department of Homeland Security • 60% of businesses that experience a catastrophic event go out of business within 2 years – Gartner Group • 93% of businesses that experience a data center disaster for more than 9 days go out of business within 5 years – U.S. Department of Labor • About 20% of businesses do not reopen following a major emergency – Institute for Business and Home Safety • Only 43% of businesses suffering a disaster ever recovery sufficiently to resume business – National Archives & Records Administration

  11. Business Features

  12. Business Features • Manpower • Communications • Facilities • Resources • Strategy

  13. Examples

  14. Strategy: UNC – School of Public Health Pandemic Task Force • Collection of interested groups across different areas • Define Objective • Collaborative Process • End Results

  15. Manpower and Facilities: CDC/BENS-PODS • Distribution of medicine for large scale Anthrax attack • Collaboration between CDC, Fulton County, and Business Executives for National Security • Significant Business Involvement • Design • End Results

  16. Future

  17. Future • Responding to disasters is more complex • Number of risks is increasing • Success requires all groups • Business needs to be invited • Each business is different with involvement • Involvement will vary over time • Common sense leadership required

  18. Discussion

More Related