Summary Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) play a critical role in supporting, and sometimes managing, incidents of various types, sizes, and complexity by bringing people together from various government, non-government organizations, and other stakeholder groups to support the needs of the impacted community through a coordinated response and recovery to the emergency. EOCs, to be effective, […]
Read MoreWhat do emergency management consultants do? Emergency management is a complex process of community preparedness for disasters through a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and making improvements based on evaluations. These activities should involve the whole community and include all phases of emergency management (mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.) Emergency Managers […]
Read MoreApril 27, 2023 We have had a phenomenal couple of years supporting various jurisdictions with the response to the pandemic as well as with hurricanes, migrant sheltering, and other emergencies. Our cadre grew to over 3,200 people over the past few years but with increasing demand, we are always on the lookout for the best […]
Read MoreWhat is an Emergency Management Consulting Firm? I am often asked what I do – but nobody that I talk to ever seems to know what it means to be an emergency management consultant. When I answer that we help governments, businesses, and communities prepare for disasters, I typically get an odd look (unless I am talking to an Emergency Manager). […]
Read MoreAll Hands Consulting is an emergency management consulting firm with a long history of supporting the greater emergency management community of partners and practitioners. We launched an information sharing portal, the “All Hand Community” website in the late 1990’s and continued until a few years ago when we determined that social media was changing the […]
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