by Lisa Sisson | Oct 13, 2022 | Public Safety, Survey
Unearthing your voice matters to us. For months, the Unearth Team has been traveling to meet with experts in their fields and listen to their views around disaster recovery. We have attended meetings and conferences to do this, from emergency services, to government,...
by Lisa Sisson | Jul 8, 2022 | Public Safety
Pre-floods in February 2022, we released a blog titled ‘It’s about people, stupid.’, where the opening paragraph was almost like the setup of a joke… “An engineer, economist, and a grazier walk into a PUB after a flood, the debate starts, it’s about repairing roads,...
by Iain MacKenzie | Feb 19, 2022 | Public Safety
An engineer, economist, and a grazier walk into a PUB after a flood, the debate starts, it’s about repairing roads, it’s about restoring phones, it’s about moving cattle, it’s about spending locally, it’s about……. Then, from the punter at the end of the bar; it’s...
by Iain MacKenzie | Oct 31, 2021 | Public Safety, Risk Management
So What? The most important tool and least asked question. Research, or rather, quickly google, the question “so what?” and you will find a range of commentary around “that dreadful question,” see it described as a rhetorical question from someone who doesn’t care or...
by Iain MacKenzie | Oct 31, 2021 | Public Safety, Risk Management
Unprecedented: Does size matter? In my last blog I posed the question “so what?” Today I ask it of that most populace and overused word; unprecedented. Within the 24 hours of starting this blog various media outlets have reported: ...
by Iain MacKenzie | Aug 30, 2021 | Public Safety
4 Myths of Disaster Recovery: Time to Rewrite the Playbook With all the best of intentions, with all the current planning, for all the policy work, for all the research that’s been done; RECOVERY after every major event is playing CATCH UP to the expectations,...
