2010 Emergency Operations Center - Business Continuity Workshop

2010 Emergency Operations Center –

Business Continuity Workshop

Nearly two years have passed since the adoption of the Hudson Emergency Operations Plan and Crisis Action Guide.  At the conclusion of the original disaster response and recovery planning process, a training exercise simulating the partial destruction of Hudson by an EF3 tornado was conducted by training facilitators and included emergency first responders, mutual aid partners and town officials in the Hudson Emergency Operations Center (EOC).  The training exercise proved to be a valuable learning experience demonstrating the importance of integrating the Incident Command Post (ICP) with the EOC's roles and responsibilities.

On Tuesday, July 20^th, architects of the original emergency operations plan and crisis action guide, returned to Hudson to conduct a second training workshop.  This time officials from the Towns of Hudson and Keenesburg gathered together, along with members from the area Chambers of Commerce, local business community, fire protection districts, and amateur radio emergency services organization to discuss the next link in the emergency operations chain – the integration between the EOC and the local business community.  This workshop highlighted the importance of planning and communicating in advance to identify all of the available resources in the community that would assist in one or more of the Emergency Support Function roles during the response and recovery phases of a catastrophic event.

As an added bonus, workshop attendees were given pertinent information on business continuity planning.  In short, business continuity planning is a holistic approach to ensuring that an organizations critical functions are maintained or restored in a timely fashion that support the processes that generate revenue, maintain reputation, and retain or grow the customer base.

To download a copy of the powerPoint presentation used during the workshop click on the PDF file below.