Preparedness Quotes

The ambulance missions are staged through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Office, ... The volunteers must wait for the assignments that will tell them where they`re going and what they`re going to be doing.

This program allows lenders to build a risk preparedness model to respond to future disasters. In addition, the graphical representation allows managers to quickly assess and communicate the risk to their business in the event of a disaster.

Well, I`m not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We`ve known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

Well, I said in July before Katrina that we had a lot more work to do in preparedness. And I think that was borne out, obviously, a month later.

We`ve taken a potentially life-saving idea, applied our proprietary technology, and developed mobile phone- and Web-based software called ICE First to store and automatically update emergency contact and medical information. ICE First puts medical and emergency preparedness in the palm of your hand.

Nevertheless, there are gaps in receiving funding or planning for emergency preparedness, ... We must identify and address them, because these issues will remain with us for years to come. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix.

There are a lot of much bigger public issues than year 2000 preparedness, and I think that certainly has an impact on the way it has been handled.

BYU is probably one of the most progressive forces in Utah County for earthquake preparedness. I`m not concerned as much about the buildings on BYU campus as I am about the buildings most of the BYU students live in.

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

The preparedness on all levels has increased 10-fold from the local citizens up to the government level. People are a taking it a lot more serious. I think everybody has seen how devastating these storms can be, both to their property and to their potential loss of life. I think the awareness level, seriousness and priority it has given has made it a lot easier for the preparation to take place.

Giant does not have a formal pandemic preparedness plan. The feeling is that we have enough employees -- we have over 25,000 employees. If the need arose, we could move these employees around quite a bit to wherever the greatest operational need within the company would be to keep our stores open.

I would think that any disaster preparedness center would address the needs of those who are most vulnerable. That was not the case here.