Pandemic Planning for organiZations
-The Essential Workshop
by Bob hayes
Bob Hayes is one of Australia’s leading experts in organizational pandemic planning, business continuity management (BCM) and security risk management.
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3 hour e-Workshop including a comprehensive 130 page handbook
Pandemic Planning for Organizations
Comprehensive e-Workshop and e-Handbook now available
Why is the workshop important NOW?
We constantly live with the possibility of a severe pandemic. A pandemic is not just a personal health issue or a government problem, it is a vital issue for organizations.
The current global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic means the need for organizational pandemic planning has never been more urgent.
If this pandemic becomes severe, as feared, it will threaten almost every organization’s staff and business continuity. If critical business functions cannot be maintained then business failure may be imminent.
Why should organizations be interested?
Every organization needs to develop and implement a comprehensive pandemic plan, in addition to their standard business continuity plan. In some industries, this is recommended good practice by regulators. This in-depth workshop shows, in clear simple language, what’s involved and, how to do this complex task.
Sound pandemic planning is vital for:
protecting the health and welfare of staff
compliance with OHS obligations, and
continuity of essential business services.
Indeed, pandemic planning is vital for ensuring the very survival of your organization in a severe pandemic.
Organizations need to act quickly. There may be only a small and narrowing window of opportunity, to get this right.
How does the workshop help you?
Pandemic Planning for Organizations is an in-depth 3 hour workshop package that aims to help you to achieve best practice pandemic planning in your organization.
It provides you and your organization with the framework and knowledge that allows you to:
develop, write and implement a pandemic plan yourself, or
create a detailed requirements specification for an external consultant, and
quickly implement and roll out effective practical measures for pandemic preparation, response and recovery.
What is the content and format?
The workshop package consists of a 3 hour digital video workshop which includes five key modules plus a comprehensive handbook. The modules include:
1. Pandemic fundamentals
2. Essentials of best practice pandemic planning for organizations
3. Implementing your pandemic plan
4. Benchmarking your pandemic plan against best practice
5. Lessons for the way forward.
Whilst the three hour workshop video is self-explanatory, the 130 page handbook accompanying the workshop provides much further detail to assist you in developing and implementing your pandemic plan and practical arrangements.
What are the expected learning outcomes?
The learning content facilitates increased knowledge about:
how to develop and write a pandemic plan
essentials of best practice pandemic planning and preparations
how your pandemic plan should relate to your broader business continuity management plans
how to implement your pandemic plan and preparations in practice
practical issues and challenges in implementation
how to benchmark your pandemic planning against best practice
in short, how to minimise the potential impact of a severe pandemic on your organization.
Who is the intended audience?
The workshop is intended for individuals and teams, including:
senior managers responsible for pandemic planning, business continuity or risk management
business continuity and risk professionals
occupational health and safety professionals
emergency response and crisis managers
information technology disaster recovery managers
audit and compliance professionals.
How is this workshop different?
This in-depth content-rich technical workshop is different to other available pandemic training which focuses simply on workplace health and hygiene. This workshop is about minimizing organizational impact and ensuring business survival in a severe pandemic.
Who presents the workshop?
Pandemic Planning for Organizations - The Essential Workshop is written and presented by Bob Hayes - one of Australia’s leading experts in organizational pandemic planning and business continuity management. It has been produced in association with FutureMedia Pty Ltd.
How can you use the workshop?
The workshop presents a range of opportunities for organizations. If the pandemic threat worsens quickly, it facilitates a rapid response by clearly outlining the essentials. If, however, there is time to prepare for the inevitable next wave, the workshop allows a well considered and comprehensive response. PowerPoint slides and handouts are also included for in-house presentations, if required.
Is your investment cost-effective?
The workshop is highly cost-effective - less than 1-2 days’ typical specialist consulting fees and a fraction of the cost of an in-house live workshop. Much more importantly, however, potential financial losses from a failure to properly plan for, and respond to, a pandemic are likely to be incalculably greater, even for one day.