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BANG. 

Just to the right of bang.

Continuity.

Prepare, survive, recover.

Prepare, exercise, evaluate, revise, prepare, exercise, evaluate, etc.

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Every agency, organization, and jurisdiction is behind one curve or another. Very few can say they are "where we should be" in most categories of preparedness. 

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It's difficult to accurately assess where your effort, time, and money should be spent before the bang, preparing for an emergency, responding to an emergency, or recovering from an emergency. 

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For agencies that have enormous coffers, the story is the same.

Stay fit. Exercise. 

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One difference between well-funded organizations and the "smaller" segment of public industry and service, is those well-funded organizations have developed their plan with a Return To Normal state as the goal. You may not have a bottomless spending account, but you can apply wisdom and experience in developing your plan, and your time and effort will be well spent. 

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Another advantage large organizations have is the wealth of Lessons Learned from numerous smaller agencies. Everyone hears anecdotal evidence of interesting occurrences or nearly-unbelievable stories that were never aired on mainstream news. For the most part, the Lessons Learned and the After-Action Reports of most incidents become classified as they tend to reveal the mistakes and weaknesses that really shouldn't be front page news or easily found. However, by the time that the LLs and AARs make it to mainstream, those involved have made corrections that make the information moot. 

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What we offer is nearly two decades of experience in exercise and scenario design and development based on a wide variety of real-world incidents and the Lessons Learned from them to build a preparedness, response, and continuity plan that takes into account the successes and the failures of others who have faced some of the most challenging and chaotic scenes of terrorism and disaster. 

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We can evaluate your plans, find the gaps and needs, build a specific scenario and/or exercise in order to test (and possibly break) your system, plan, and operation. Then we will evaluate the issues, develop a corrective action plan, and help you implement it with a timeline and guide you on your way to a successful recovery. 

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Continuity planning involves extended, detailed coordination between partner organizations, nearby venues and vendors, as well as specific agreements and commitments from support staff, members, employees, and volunteers to fill necessary roles in various degrees to keep your service or production useful, useable, valuable, and viable to be able to recover from an impactful event, as well as return to normal operations as soon as possible. 

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Continuity of Operations Planning often requires redundancy of locations, personnel, and resources such as computers, vehicles, and unique items required for your particular service and/or product. Redundancy does not always mean more money needs to be spent. Often, substitutions for your needs are readily available and can be discovered through careful thought, reasoning, and coordination. 

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One major defining attribute of your operation that will determine your level of continuity preparation will be the level of interdependency on and with your operation and that of your clients and customers. 

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If your service or product is considered "essential", which is defined by numerous metrics, you will likely fall into one of four categories, depending on your service or product. 

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FEMA spends considerable effort in continuity planning, exercising, evaluating, and revising. Certain publicly-available tools were constructed to assist businesses with determining their continuity needs and assessing where their operations stand in the overall plan. 

Disclaimer:

Any and all training, instruction, consultation, and advice, whether classroom, presentation, in person, or via email/text/message, is given for the sole purpose of using personal experience and training to impart and convey the safest possible tactics, firearms use, safety measures, and security practices in the context of the client/customer's particular site or location. The techniques and recommendations imparted through BlueHorse are not intended to qualify or certify anyone to conduct any tactical operations, civilian, home-based, or otherwise, nor to guarantee any level of safety through adoption or application of recommended measures or practices. 

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