Beyond the Basics of Health, Safety, Security and Risk Management: Understanding Stress Responses to Improve Emergency Preparedness
This year’s Institute has been restructured to address an expressed need in education abroad: many institutions require assistance in realistically preparing for highly challenging emergencies.
While many institutions have Emergency Action Plans in place, it is always a challenge to develop training that actually reproduces the conditions needed to maximize the exercise of implementing a plan. Our plans may work on paper, but in real-life, pressure-filled emergency conditions, how will staff respond? The 2015 Standards of Good Practice Institute: Beyond the Basics of Health, Safety, Security and Risk Management addresses this problem.
This year’s Institute is designed to train teams of professionals from organizations (education abroad, risk management, legal counsel, public safety, student life, etc.) to work together to improve their risk management plan through continuous review, practice and assessment. Experts will provide realistic training to teach participants effective ways to respond to emergencies. Teams will leave with the skills and resources needed to lead crisis planning training at their organization.
This one-day workshop, limited to 100 participants, will feature experts in the field of crisis planning and management.
- Performing Under Pressure: led by Deb Ajango, director of SafetyEd, will provide specific realistic training on preparing teams to work well in a crisis.
- Emergency Evacuation: Proactive versus Reactive Responses, presented by Laura Provencher, International Risk Analyst, University of Arizona, Dru Simmons, International Risk Officer at The Ohio State University and Pascal Schuback, Global Emergency Manager at University of Washington, will discuss and walk through planning response protocols for specific crisis situations, creating an evacuation plan and responding to incidents.
- Plenary Address: Dr. Jeff McCausland, national security consultant for CBS television and radio; retired U.S. Army colonel and former dean of academics at the U.S. Army War College.