Pandemic Planning: challenging assumptions; validating plans
Guys Campus, King’s College London
Thursday 10th September 2009
You are working with what you believe to be a well-structured Pandemic Plan. Your CEO is largely content with the balance that you have achieved between maintaining business-as-usual and proper attention to the welfare of staff and customers. You are monitoring reports of Swine Flu outbreaks and alert to any increase in the level of sickness reporting throughout your organisation.
So why are you nervous? Is it the uncertainty over how the pandemic will develop and spread as we move into the autumn and winter? Is it that you have not found it easy to exercise your plans? Are you concerned that you may have overlooked some aspect of the planning process; or made a wrong assumption? Or is it simply the “unknown unknowns”?
Perhaps a day spent working with other BCM practitioners, all with similar concerns, might be a worthwhile investment in order to validate your plans and check that the assumptions you have made are not only reasonable, but based on the most up-to-date information. So, it is exactly for you that we have developed the Pandemic Planners Workshop (London, Thursday 10th September). This event is intended for those organisations that have developed pandemic plans and for whom the opportunity to share information and compare notes with other organisations is a natural next step in the planning process.
As with all BCI Workshops, we have structured the Workshop as a combination of authoritative presentations and structured discussions, plus time for informal networking. The key sessions of the Workshop are ...
- A situation update with a briefing from the central government team responsible for pandemic planning in the UK;
- A presentation of a well-structured plan from a leading corporate organisation to assist us in identifying the key issues and approaches that must be considered; and
- A review of the ways in which a pandemic plan might be tested and exercised, based on a case-study from a well-respected international business.
We aim to ensure that every participant will have the opportunity to bring forward particular issues in order that all current concerns are identified and addressed. This Workshop is not intended for those organisations that have not yet considered the potential impacts of the pandemic although, of course, all are welcome.
Who should attend?
The Workshop is designed for BC practitioners, at all levels, that are already involved in the planning and deployment of contingency plans for responding to the consequences of the current pandemic threat. It is not a training course in how to develop a pandemic preparedness plan.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about all aspects of their pandemic plans and seek advice from both the expert session leaders and their fellow professionals, mainly BCI members. Our main purpose is to assist delegates in validating their plans.
What does it cost and how do I book?
Workshop offers!
- Book and pay before Friday 14th August and receive a 15% discount!
- Bring a colleague along and they receive a 20% discount on the full price!
Early Bird rate (if booked and paid by 14th August)
Member - £250+VAT
Non-member - £335+VAT
Standard rate (after 14th August)
Members - £295+vat
Non-members - £395+vat. This includes the option of 12 months BCI Affiliate Membership in order to provide access to the workshop materials and the Members-only area of the BCI website after the Workshop. It also provides discounted rates for attendance at BCI Workshops for the next twelve months.
To register to attend, use the booking form click here or send an email to lucy.burns@thebci.org
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