[EAS] Whole New Ballgame

[Richard Rudman]

In this case while seemingly endless  meetings may be part of the problem, the root issue for me is that the right group of people are rarely if ever involved in designing strategies that are supposed to result in proper planning, procedures, training, and execution.

At the risk of repeating something that has seemed obvious to me for years that I have been saying for years , until we design warning systems that are fully integrated into emergency response, we will continue to have failures to warn, training issues, and endless wheel-spinning discussions.

Classic ICS does not take into account the reality that emergency managers always need the public to do or not do certain things. If these certain things dependent on the nature of the emergency and the stage of development of the emergency are not done, the overall ability for emergency managers to bring the incident to a faster and more successful outcome will be impaired. 

Integrating EPI (emergency public information) decision making UCI more tightly into emergency management protocols addresses this in ways that programmers of origination tools, vendors of hardware, broadcast engineers, and others outside of the EM loop cannot ever dream of doing. (Sorry Ed Czarnecki)

Stated another way, using technical solutions to solve what are at heart management issues rarely works. It's like applying a band aid to a wound requiring stitches and antibiotics.

Richard Rudman


> On Feb 18, 2018, at 5:39 PM, Ed Czarnecki <ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com> wrote:
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> "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"