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COVID-19 and Disaster Management
5 years ago
Had a fun conversation with my Boss yesterday about COVID-19, and some of it may be relevant to others.
I work from home, have no kids, no serious health issues, and only occasionally travel from work. Not all of my work-mates are in that position, but thankfully most of our work involves remote IT support roles. So even if one or some of us get caught by quarantine (locked in or out) we can mostly continue. Even if schools get closed the parents in our company can support their little darlings at home, and we can continue as best as we can manage. Most of us have elderly relatives though. If they get it, that's serious, and could lead to sudden and prolonged absence from work for the affected staff. We're also going to have to keep an eye on each other's health. (Or they will at least. I'm 50miles away.) And try and minimise risk if we have to do a site visit to any of our clients, but especially the elderly ones. Which includes possibly cautioning them of extra charges if/when we can no longer safely risk public transport.
It may be worth having a look around your office. How many of your co-workers have kids? How well can they cope if schools close suddenly? How easily can people work from home? Are there any supply chains up or down stream that could affect you? If the worst happened, how easily could your company cope with multiple people taking time off on zero notice due to loss of relatives? Possibly those in critical positions?
It may not be your job to think of such things. But disaster management should be someone's job, and even if they've done that job well, 'pandemic' might not be a scenario they've properly considered. If they haven't said anything yet, and they still haven't said anything over the next few weeks, it may be a good idea to give them a poke and ask. It will be extremely nice if this blows over with minimal casualties, but that doesn't seem to be the way things are going. If things do go bad, better to have a plan ahead of time.
I work from home, have no kids, no serious health issues, and only occasionally travel from work. Not all of my work-mates are in that position, but thankfully most of our work involves remote IT support roles. So even if one or some of us get caught by quarantine (locked in or out) we can mostly continue. Even if schools get closed the parents in our company can support their little darlings at home, and we can continue as best as we can manage. Most of us have elderly relatives though. If they get it, that's serious, and could lead to sudden and prolonged absence from work for the affected staff. We're also going to have to keep an eye on each other's health. (Or they will at least. I'm 50miles away.) And try and minimise risk if we have to do a site visit to any of our clients, but especially the elderly ones. Which includes possibly cautioning them of extra charges if/when we can no longer safely risk public transport.
It may be worth having a look around your office. How many of your co-workers have kids? How well can they cope if schools close suddenly? How easily can people work from home? Are there any supply chains up or down stream that could affect you? If the worst happened, how easily could your company cope with multiple people taking time off on zero notice due to loss of relatives? Possibly those in critical positions?
It may not be your job to think of such things. But disaster management should be someone's job, and even if they've done that job well, 'pandemic' might not be a scenario they've properly considered. If they haven't said anything yet, and they still haven't said anything over the next few weeks, it may be a good idea to give them a poke and ask. It will be extremely nice if this blows over with minimal casualties, but that doesn't seem to be the way things are going. If things do go bad, better to have a plan ahead of time.
V.
it just amazes me...
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V.
Because, oh yeah, this country HAS no disaster management. More of a disaster RETARD.
Here, I already live in the outskirts but the thing is even if I would walk out to the green, no chance that the government would send help or make "evacuation points" in case of a real sh*tstorm.
Though I maintain, as I've said before, it's not the terrible leadership that's the real problem so much as the terrible cheerleaders who put them there.