Insights from the Eddistone Team
Practical thinking on resilience, emergency and crisis management, technical safety, exercises and organisational preparedness.
Go on then!
Article published in The Sentinel, a magazine for IIRSM members. Tim Bird, Managing Director of Eddistone Consulting Ltd, examines the responsible business approach to emergency planning and response. Let’s be honest, the current world’s a bit unpredictable. Storms, cyber-attacks, equipment failures, data leaks, supply chain issues – [...]
Organisational Resilience
Resilience for organisations is the ability to anticipate disruption, respond effectively and recover with purpose, while protecting people, maintaining essential business activities and safeguarding long term reputation and viability. We understand that resilience connects risk, safety and preparedness with coordinated organisational response and structured recovery. These elements form a business cycle, which, to be [...]
Crisis Management – developing your team capability
Preparing for action The recipe for top-level team performance continues to be the focus of research and development programmes in business, sport and military contexts across the world. Combining a group of individual capabilities to create a team capability is a function of many factors including group behaviour, team decision making, biases and the effects [...]
What we do is different from other providers
Whether you are looking to create a comprehensive emergency management plan, develop your emergency management and preparedness or take business continuity to the next level, we have something to meet your needs. And what we do is different from other providers, on a number of levels. Our people Our people are some of the best [...]
Introducing the National Response Academy
A new centre of excellence Now in 2022 we are launching a new centre of excellence for emergency, incident and crisis response. Many of our regulated industry customers have been asking us to run open courses to develop their people in core response roles necessary for regulatory compliance. We have developed the National Response Academy [...]
Learning from Seveso – 45 years on
45 years on from the Seveso disaster, we take a look at what happened to remind ourselves of some key learnings for process safety and emergency response. What happened at Seveso? On 10 July 1976 a bursting disc ruptured on a chemical reactor at the ICMESA chemical plant near Seveso. A dense white cloud of [...]