The Noggin Blog

It’s the new year, and you’ve made the commitment to build (or enhance) your safety culture. Only problem is your contractors and suppliers haven’t made the same commitment to prioritise their safety culture. Why does it matter and what can you do about it? 

2020 was no doubt a year for the crisis record books. So, what can crisis leaders expect in the year ahead? Not Nostradamus-level prognostication, here, but the safe bet is on the acceleration of severe weather events. 

*If you'd like to discuss your client portfolio, existing implementations, and/or how to take Noggin forward with your customers, please contact us at partners@noggin.io to schedule a meeting.

With a vaccine now in the offing, many of your clients will be tempted to turn the page on the pandemic. But those companies who failed to remember the business continuity lessons of prior pandemics like SARS and H1N1 condemned themselves to repeat them during COVID-19. Now it’s your job to keep your clients from repeating the lessons of COVID-19 in the public health crises of the future. 

Healthcare workers have long faced significant risk of violence on the job. But the hospital security crisis didn’t just happen by chance. Specific reasons explain these high rates of occupational violence.

Think those reasons don’t matter to you? Think again. Many of the underlying, hospital security risk factors are germane to most professional sectors.

In this age of COVID-19, all-hazards planning has never been more integral to effective major event management. But the size of these events (including major disasters) means planning is often parceled out between a diverse set of stakeholders, potentially increasing operational risk. What, then, is needed to mitigate risk and enhance major-event emergency response capabilities? 

Safety compliance challenges have never been starker than in this age of rapidly shifting regulations. But achieving compliance is still possible.

Of course, senior leaders will have to redirect their safety compliance efforts away from piecemeal interventions and toward an enterprise-wide, risk-based approach. What does that strategy entail, exactly? 

Most models of business recovery assume that the crisis itself has ended. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has proven far more durable than most major disasters. So, for businesses trying to get back to full, pre-crisis operations – the goal of recovery – what can be done to mitigate the logistical hurdles of business recovery from the COVID-19 crisis?

*If you'd like to discuss your client portfolio, existing implementations, and/or how to take Noggin forward with your customers, please contact us at partners@noggin.io to schedule a meeting.

Crisis management plans are great. But if we’ve learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that they aren’t enough to ensure that your clients are prepared for a protracted crisis.

After all, when a crisis breaks, it’s execution that matters. And seamless execution entails regular training in crisis-like conditions. How to help your clients create those conditions? 

When many in-person industries shut down at the beginning of the pandemic, remote work took off. An unintended consequence of these rapidly assembled teleworking arrangements, though, was the steep rise in cyber attacks.

But attacks themselves aren’t the only incidents Security teams and their enterprises have to worry about. There’s also the reporting that comes after. 

Even in the age of COVID-19, getting resources to the right place at the right time is still only half the battle. Relief organisations and agencies still confront barriers, ensuring that those resources are productive once on site. What’s one of the most difficult, and how to overcome it?