Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity

Emergency preparedness and business continuity planning are crucial for successful business and organizations. This course provides an overview of the strategic planning and tactical responses taken by operational leaders in response to man-made or natural incidents in the workplace. Understanding the risks associated with your business or facility, will allow you to be a vital asset to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover sooner to those applicable risks. Students will also learn how to identify environmental factors critical to their organization and how to develop programs that will keep their facility in compliance with laws and regulations.

Topics May Include:

• Identifying continuity risks associated with a business
• Defining basic emergency management and business continuity terms
• Steps required when building a business continuity and disaster recovery plan
• Emergency response plans for moderate to high-risk facilities
• Processes in an incident command system
• Effective and ineffective communication techniques

Course Number: BUSA-40679
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Facilities Management

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1/18/2021 - 3/21/2021

$595

Online

Cancelled

• SECTION ID:

  151964

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Howe, Austin

  Austin Howe, MHS, is the Senior Director of Support Services for Kaiser Permanente of West Los Angeles Medical Center. His region encompasses 9 health centers and a large medical complex in one of the largest cities in the United States. He is responsible for directing and managing operational activities for departments in Operations Support which directs the functions of patient transportation, telecommunications, parking, and security departments. Austin has extensive experience and expertise in managing multi-site facilities within heath care. He has the ultimate responsibility for creating a safe, respectful, and secure environment for thousands of medical staff and a quarter-million patients annually. Austin is also a private consultant for susceptible facilities in natural or po...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No textbook required.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 1/21/2021.
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  1/18/2021 - 3/21/2021
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.