Acts of fire, weather, terrorism, pandemics or technology outages can result in customer outage and quickly result in damages of untold value. The scope of the disaster needs to consider your facility, your key supplier facilities and your strategic customers’ facility disasters. This clinic will prepare the participants to treat the preventable and recovery efforts as a strategic approach within the business plan. Using role playing techniques, with an actual case study as a learning tool, the participants will learn how to identify the most likely disaster, identify customer priorities, supplier enabling support and to have a game plan for recovery when prevention is not enough. Benefits are gained by developing a proven approach to prevent the probability of having the disaster, and a planned game plan to recover from the disaster.
After this clinic you will be able to:
- Identify characteristics of planning team members
- identify the characteristics of the disaster team(s) members
- Identify the critical functions of the company
- Identify the critical employees
- Recognize that in addition to a primary company plan that there
may be more detailed preparation for specialized laboratories and
operations areas where a greater level of preparedness will be
required for the safe protection of equipment and personnel
- Evaluate the company preparedness to recover from a disaster as
soon as possible
- Develop a Continuance of Operations/Laboratory Plan
- Provide and communicate the value of this planning and the
proper steps of prevention and disaster evacuation through out the
organization.
William D. Blevins, M. Ed.
Bill began his career in the non-profit Human Services world in 1971. He has
held leadership positions at several companies working with individuals with
developmental delays and disabilities. Bill was with the American Red Cross
Philadelphia Chapter first as a Branch Manager and later as the Director of
Services to the Armed Forces, Veterans and Military Families and was active,
recruiting disaster team members, and coordinating relief efforts.
After his stint with the Red Cross he relocated from Pennsylvania where he
took charge of the daily operations of a substance abuse treatment center.
Currently, Bill is the Administrator/Executive Director for PrimeCare Inc.
PrimeCare is one of the larger private providers serving individuals with
mental retardation and/or mental health issues in the State of Connecticut.
PrimeCare operates 17 group homes, three day programs and workshops and a
very active after school program.
During his 36 years in Human Services he has been charged with not only
planning for but also the implementation of disaster plans for various
different types of organizations. At the directions of the State, he was
required to develop the COOP. During this process and his research into the
possibilities of a pandemic flu Bill came to have an even greater
understanding of the problem of maintaining a supply stream and the lack of
interface between the suppliers and the organizations effected.
David Kutz
David is currently Vice President of Operation for MISCO Products
Corporation. He has worked for MISCO Products Corporation for the last 14
years and has held many different positions in the organization. Over the
last 7 years David has worked within the operation to implement lean
practices and a lean culture through out the organization. This approach to
manufacturing has reduced inventory levels by over 50% and has increased the
through put speed of orders at MISCO by over 300%.
In January of 2007 MISCO products experienced a fire in its manufacturing
area and warehouse. This fire destroyed over 60% of the facility and caused
in excess of 5 million dollars in damage, including several proprietary
pieces of manufacturing equipment. While MISCO Products is still in the
process of rebuilding the structure and replacing the equipment with in the
facility, it has managed to continue to supply all of its customers,
maintain a consistent level of delivery and had a record sales level in the
third quarter of 2007.
David is a graduate of Penn State University and has a Bachelors degree in
Chemical Engineering. He is active in the community and several non-profit
organizations in Berks County. He currently serves as Vice-Chair or
Leadership Berks and is Chairperson of their Strategic Planning Committee.
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