BC020_English: Mass Casualty Events Business Continuity Management

Mass casualty events, whether an industrial accident, security incident or natural disaster event, can quickly become ‘out of the box events’ in that they overwhelm the capacity of both the organization, as well as first responders, to respond to and manage the event. As such, leadership teams who understand the risks and needs of a mass casualty events (which may also include fatalities) will be better placed to control the risks and respond to the needs of the incident. This leadership course discusses the nature and impacts of a mass casualty event, the need for effective preparedness planning, the coordination requirements with internal and external stakeholders when managing a response, the assignment of primacy in terms of command and control, the broad range of business continuity requirements and strategies, the core management responsibilities and tasks, the need for effective communications and decision making, specialist support requirements, the need for ongoing risk assessments, and the importance and value of training and testing. This training brings together management teams into a unified and mutually support approach to business continuity management. HR PHR Credits (Functional Area 6): This course supports Human Resource professionals in developing and then testing effective business continuity policies, plans and protocols (as well as disaster and recovery plans and organizational incident and emergency response plans), and communicating and training the workforce on safety, security and crisis management standards. It demonstrates sound resiliency, empowering organizational incident and emergency response measures and associated plans. This training also develops leadership concepts and applications, and protects the organization from loss and liability. PLEASE REMEMBER - Some modules offer language subtitles. Click the 'CC' button on the video player controls to select your language. WEAK INTERNET – If you have limited bandwidth, please ensure you select the lowest quality setting under the gear icon in the video player controls.