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Crisis & Emergency/Disaster Management

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What is Crisis and Emergency/Disaster Management ?                                     


     Crisis Management: The ability of an entity to manage incidents that have potential to cause significant security, financial, strategic or reputational impacts. 


     Emergency/Disaster Management: The process to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, maintain continuity during, and to recover from an incident that threatens life, property, operations, information and environment. 


See end of page for examples. 



The Role of Threat Consulting Group

Threat Consulting Group seeks to partner with and assist agencies, organizations, businesses and communities in the starting phases of the management cycle of any incident or event. They include the following: 


Prevention/Mitigation: Establishing measures that prevent or reduce the opportunities of a crisis occurring - such as threat counterintelligence.

- Vulnerabilities Discovery, Analysis & Management  

- Operation Procedures, Guidelines & Policy creation


Planning/Preparedness: Developing plans, strategies and activities to be used and relied upon during an incident. 

- Risks and Hazards Assessments

- Functional Needs & Special Considerations Planning

- Emergency & Crisis Plan creation 

- Crisis Communication Plan 

- Business Impact Analysis 

- Contingency & Continuity Planning

- Resource Needs Identification

- Develop and Conduct Exercises 



A Few Selected Examples from History

If it can happen to them, it can happen to you. Are you ready to respond to a crisis?

  • Seven people die after ingesting poison-laced Tylenol pills, leading to mass recalls (1982)
  • A tour bus plunges into a California river, killing twenty-one (1986)
  • Oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, collides with rocks leading to significant impacts on local ecosystems (1989)
  • An arsonist sets the club Happy Land alight, resulting in the deaths of eighty-seven (1992)
  • Coca Cola executives die in a plane crash (1996)
  • Whiskey production facility fire destroys warehouse, nearby forests and contaminated local water supply leading to critical power infrastructure being forced to shut down, an environmental catastrophe and thousands left without water (2000)
  • After investigation by the NHTSA, Bridgestone finally admits to having known about the production of hazardous tires leading to the deaths of hundreds, loss of consumer trust and a recall of over six million tires (2000)
  • Thousands of elderly citizens die after a massive heat wave in France (2003)    
  • Fourteen workers are killed by a disgruntled worker at a Lockheed Martin facility (2003)
  • Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy almost bleeds to death after being mauled by a tiger during a performance (2003)
  • McDonald's chairman dies unexpectedly, hours before a pivotal sales meeting (2004)
  • Wendy's sales and brand image plummet after false allegations that a finger was found in their products (2005)
  • Hurricane Katrina decimates New Orleans, killing over a thousand and flooding the area, causing a multitude of humanitarian, economic, social and political crises (2005)
  • The tourism industry in Aruba disintegrates after the investigation of Natalee Holloway, a missing teenager, is botched (2005)
  • Mattel recalls millions of toys after the presence of lead is discovered (2007)
  • Four Bluffton University student athletes die and twenty-nine are injured after their bus is involved in an accident (2007)
  • MIT is put in the spotlight after investigations into its Dean of Admissions, who was instrumental in changing school policy, revealed that she had falsified her credentials and lacked any college experience (2007) 
  • NASA finds itself under public scrutiny after failing to monitor mental health of its astronaut Lisa Nowak, who planned to murder fellow a fellow astronaut (2007)
  • United States Department of Defense has massive security breech of its computers and systems (2008)
  • Virginia Department of Health is hacked, putting eight million patient records at risk (2009)
  • Crowd crush during the Love Parade in Germany kills twenty-one and injures five-hundred (2010)
  • Traffic jam in China lasts twelve days leading to critical supply chain issues, mass communication troubles, and a public relations nightmare (2010)
  • Powerplant generating electricity for Manhattan explodes during Hurricane Sandy (2012)
  • Over one-hundred-thousand residents in Flint, Michigan are left without water after the discovery of lead contamination (2014)
  • Blue Bell Creameries is forced to recall 8 million gallons of ice cream after an outbreak of listeria in the facility leads to multiple hospitalizations and deaths (2015)
  • Volkswagen admits to providing false emission readings in vehicles causing substantial reputational damage and loss of market share (2015)
  • Equifax data breach exposes over one-hundred million people's personal data including social security numbers, full legal names and addresses and credit card numbers (2017)
  • The State of Hawaii accidently triggers the Emergency Alert System leading to millions believing a missile was inbound (2018)
  • After being fired, an employee kills three coworkers and them himself in a San Francisco Ford Dealership (2019)
  • Hundreds die, industry and business operations are strained as the State of Texas faces an winter energy crisis (2021)
  • Suez Canal becomes blocked after the ship Ever Given becomes grounded, causing further havoc to ailing global supply chains (2021)
  • Surfside Condominium collapses resulting in dozens of deaths and public outcry (2021)








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