Is your company and facilities prepared for a natural disaster, terrorist attack or any other emergency event that disrupts your business and production? How quickly your company can get back to business after an incident depends on the emergency planning done today. Start planning now to improve the likelihood that your company will survive and recover, prior to, during and after an emergency incident.

Our experience in the field of emergency planning, business continuity and crisis communications is unparalleled anywhere in the world.  O’Brien’sRM is distinguished from other companies in this field by our actual emergency management response experience.  We bring our response experience and lessons learned to provide more realistic and practical deliverables than academic and theory-based consultants are able to provide. All of our employees are knowledgeable and have experience working within private and public response organizations including operations within Incident Command Posts (ICPs) and Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs).

Business Continuity and Preparedness Planning

Our planning methodology addresses risk mitigation and business recovery planning for all industry groups, including the maritime, petrochemical and transportation industry. As part of this planning and preparedness process, we will work with your management to assess your facilities current recovery capability, and then define practical and effective business and technology recovery strategies.  Once the strategies are defined, we will develop the resultant plan to address technology and operations recovery.

O’Brien’sRM can take an “all-hazards” approach or target a specific incident such as hurricanes, earthquakes or terrorist attacks when developing your plan. O’Brien’sRM provides a comprehensive suite of preparedness planning services such as:

Preparedness Consulting and Assessment Services

Proper preparedness and good crisis management can be the key to a company’s successful response to a crisis.  Our crisis management programs are based on basic crisis management fundamentals and include potential crisis communications, crisis recognition, crisis management team development, reputation resource management, field support, and situation assessments.
Planning is your best tool when it comes to disaster preparedness and recovery.  Disasters can be divided into category types, such as:

 
Testing your Plan with Training, Exercises and Drills

With recent major disasters, such as Hurricane Ike, the need to test your business continuity programs has been reinforced.  O’Brien’sRM will develop a tabletop exercise based on specific scenarios pertinent to a probable incident within your region such as a hurricane, earthquake, flood, etc. that will require response under the Plan and NIMS structure. Our team will test and evaluate the features of your Plan, Unified Command concept and NIMS compliant ICS structure throughout the exercise.