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, […]

What 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 […]

What 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). […]

All 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 […]