Disaster Planning

I developed a baseline schedule for an emergency bridge replacement project but sounds like you are looking for something on a larger scale. a co-worker is a former Army Corp guy and has a lot experience w/ contingency/emergency plannning. anything in particular you’d want to know?

Robert,



I would assume that the majority of DR Procedures and strategies are similar.. particularly those held by your DoD and our MoD, being as they are products of joint exercises.



With regard to Civil response, I would assume that this follows very similar principals.. what works, works

On a more mature note then:



One of the Key aspects to Distaster Recovery Planning is mitigation and Preparation for Multi faceted disasters.



Contrary to the problems faced with Man Made disasters (such as terrorist activity, or Infrastructure Failure) Natural disasters tend to present compounded issues.



For example, an earthquake will not only leave buildings collapsed around people’s heads, but you will also have to deal with mains leaks (Water and Gas), Infrastructure Denial (Power and Comms) and all kinds of ’Secondary’ nasties.



It is these compound issues which will hamper the rescue / immediate recovery effort that makes this Phase so difficult to Plan (there’s no point using thermal imaging cameras to look for bodies when the entire area

- including you boots - is on fire).



The key to managing this Phase of the work is to concentrate on ensuring the emergency services look after themselves first. The Capability to contain and recover is paramount, however selfish that may seem.



Comms and Control has to be established, and the emergency/ rescue services protected to ensure a full / efficient recovery effort. This often leads to some very difficult decisions being made.



Most Governments, indeed most Government departments, have Multi Disciplinary Teams ready to be mobilised in these events and their Disaster Recovery Plans ’should’ be reviewed on a regular basis.



Phases 3+4 (above) should really come in to Play during these reviews, where Lessons Learned from other Incidents or emerging Technologies / Better Practices can be incorporated. Door bolting is always best when Dobbin is still in the Stable.

Hi,



I do disaster Planning.



As part of my bid for World Domination, I have posited that a satellite with a frickin’ big laser beam, aimed at one of the canary Islands will trigger a huge tsunami wreaking devastation along the US eastern seaboard.



You would not believe some of the pre-work that needs to be done for this type of malarkey... geological surveys, R+D for the frickin’ big laser beam, Long lead procurement for the satellite etc etc...



It really is a very interesting field.

Robert, I am an ex-PM now planner. PM required too many sales/politival skills that I am sorely (but not sadly) lacking.



I’m glad you got the joke though, some folks around here are a little stiff in the neck...



I have not done any work in disaster planning, assuming that you mean (as Charley asked) preplanning for forseen but not certain disasters ahead of time like floods, terror strikes badly maintained bridges collapsing etc etc. All planners, however, will do at least some "senario" planning, taking your basic project plan and analysing "what if" instances. Sounds very interesting, actually, you would have to have an enormous amount of flexibility built in as the unknowns could be vast.

Are you refering to this kind of disaster





I have not done disaster planning of this kind.



I only doing project planning





Or give an example of disaster.



Cheers,

Hi Robert,



I think there is some confusion here.



What do you mean??



Something like the Khatrina events, or the tsunami event?? or some earthquake, some meteor hitting planning earth similar to hollywood movie deep impact??



These are example of disaster.



Please elaborate.

all my plans are disasters



does that count? :D