Crisis Manager

D. Lowe, "Crisis Management Marketing, Tampering Strategies for International and Domestic Marketplace Terrorism," San Fran. St. Univ. J. 1, (1990). 

Capital Project Review Community Outreach Contractor Program Crisis Management Emergency Planning Emergency Devices/Alarms... 

The federal security directors at all major airports (these individuals are TS A employees) have operational control for security and are charged with organizing and implementing crisis management response plans. 

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Clark, R. M., and R. A. Deininger. 2000. Protecting the nation s critical infrastructure The vulnerability of U.S. water supply systems. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 8 (2) 76-80. 

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Pearson C, Mitroff I. 1993. From crisis prone to crisis prepared A framework for crisis management. Acad Manag Exec7 48. 

Mechanism of health hazards evaluation and classification Language of communication and transmission of information Crisis management system... 

Have a crisis management plan that can be implemented if FDA pursues further enforcement action. 

There are also texts available for patients and their families, such as I Hate You, Don t Leave Me Understanding the Borderline Personality (Kreisman Straus, 1991) and Stop Walking on Eggshells (Mason, Kreger, Siever, 1998). A summary of the approach to the crisis management of the patient with borderline personality disorder—what we call the four Cs of soft-spoken limit setting (see Table 8.5)—can be illustrated by the following example. 

When crisis strikes, most people look to the news media for information about the extent and details of the threats or disasters at hand, for blow-by-blow accounts of important developments, and, depending on the nature of the calamity, for instructions of what to do and what not to do. This attention offers crisis managers and response professionals the opportunity to communicate information and messages to the directly affected communities and to the larger national, sometimes even international, audience as well. Indeed, as soon as citizens become aware of impending or actual disasters, such as devastating hurricanes or floods, they tend to turn first... 

Whenever they release statements to the press or are interviewed by journalists, crisis managers and disaster response professionals in general must be sure that the information they provide is accurate and the split-second judgments they make are sound, otherwise they confuse, frustrate, and alarm an already traumatized public. For example, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson told Americans that the first lethal anthrax case in Florida was an isolated case with no evidence of terrorism (World News Tonight, 2001). This was a rush to judgment that he reversed after several more anthrax infections when he admitted that the United States had never experienced this type of terrorism (Ricchiardi, 2001). 

There is no doubt that reporters will question all kinds of sources regardless of their proximity to the crisis and regardless of their expertise. If crisis managers and response professionals cooperate with the press, however, especially by providing information and finding answers to reporters questions, they are in an excellent position to help shape the news and the predominant story lines. With this in mind, crisis responders can and should prepare their media/public information approaches for the worst-case scenario. Just as public and private actors in the area of health care and other responders plan for their particular roles during all kinds of disasters ahead of time, just as they participate in drills to improve their readiness, they should prepare for interacting with journalists and others in the news... 

Ideally, media monitors work within the emergency command centers and can quickly contact the crisis manager (s) whenever they detect misinformation. If unsuccessful in convincing news organizations to alert their audiences to erroneous reports and broadcast corrections, news monitors need to enlist the help of highly placed crisis managers, who tend to have more influence with reporters, editors, and producers. 

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