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April 16, 2018
UW Senior Leadership Test Recovery Plans
On April 5, the senior leadership of UW Finance and Administration departments gathered at the Facilities Training Center to discuss how to restore operations on campus that had been interrupted two-weeks prior by a severe earthquake. At least, that was the scenario of the surprise tabletop exercise hosted by the office of the Executive…
March 23, 2018
Doug Gallucci elected as 2018 ERC Chair
Mr. Doug Gallucci, Assistant Director of the UW’s Environmental Health and Safety Department, was elected as the first Chair of the university’s Emergency Readiness Committee on March 1, 2018. With a unanimous vote, Doug will assume the leadership role of the UW’s committee that provides guidance and leadership for the university’s disaster resilience programs and…
March 8, 2018
Build your Husky Ready Plan in a Year: Month 3
This post is part of a 2018 series breaking the process of business continuity planning for University of Washington departments into monthly tasks to help build a plan in a year. This month we start the process of identifying your unit’s critical functions. This has been split into a three month process because it makes…
February 21, 2018
How are we doing: January 2018 BARC Report
After a year of hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes that elevated the awareness and concern about natural disasters and returning to business in the minds of the UW community, people have asked us “how are we doing?” We had a sense that there was a lot of room for improvement, but we didn’t have the hard…
February 12, 2018
Earthquake Awareness and Personal Preparedness Seminars
As you may have already noted from this Whole U Staff Story, one UWEM staff member is bringing the long-standing Earthquake Awareness and Personal Preparedness seminar to the campus at large. These seminars are available to all UW Faculty, Staff and Students, and will be offered around the Seattle campus on a monthly basis February…
January 26, 2018
Happy Anniversary Cascadia Earthquake
Exactly 318 years ago today, the largest earthquake to ever hit the Pacific Northwest (in recorded history) happened and transformed the landscape forever. On January 26, 1700, at about 9:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time a gigantic earthquake occurs 60 to 70 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast. The quake violently shakes the ground for three…
January 22, 2018
UWEM now offering monthly EOC tours!
Have you ever wondered what the UW Emergency Operations Center (EOC) looks like, how it operates, or how it came to exist in the first place? UW Emergency Management is proud to announce that all of this information and more will be presented on the second Friday of every month, between 10 and 11am at the…
January 18, 2018
Trouble using Google products with your NetID for the Virtual Emergency Operations Center??
THIS IS FOR THE VIRTUAL EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER ONLY UW Emergency Management will sometimes utilize Google products to serve our community. This includes: Google Forms, Google Sites, Google Docs and Sheets, etc. Whether or not you are familiar with using Google products of any kind, it should be easy for anyone with a NetID to…
January 8, 2018
Back to the Basics: ERC Charter OPEN for Public Comment
The UW’s Emergency Readiness Committee (ERC) is soliciting public comments from the UW community on its very first formal charter — the governing document that describes for the format, structure, mission, and general procedures on how our committee works. While the ERC (and the previous EMPC) has been meeting bi-monthly since 2005, we never had…
One Year to Husky Ready
When I started in my role as Business, Academic, and Research Continuity (BARC) Program Manager in September, I immediately familiarized myself with our Husky Ready tool, and began the process of sitting down with department stakeholders across the enterprise to find out what they thought of the tool and continuity planning overall. What I heard time and again:…
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