EP 691 - Mini - Do You Have A Plan?

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Here is our main story on the Rated R Safety Show.

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Okay, running slightly behind on the timeline, but hey, those things happen as we are talking.

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So let me ask you a strange question, because you know, it does come up and it does happen

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inside of the workplace.

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So questions do get asked.

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What do you do inside of your organization if you have an event that is catastrophic

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to the organization?

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What do you do if you have an event that is catastrophic towards the team?

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And I ask these questions because where sometimes we fail at is actually having a good setup

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for what needs to be done when things hit the wall.

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And I'm being serious here as I'm having this convo because here's what happens sometimes.

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We're not prepared for when the worst thing can happen.

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And listen, there's all kinds of interesting stuff you can do.

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Safety management systems.

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If you deal with a lot of chemicals, there's some stuff that you can have set up for first

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responders and so on.

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But where we sometimes tend to fail is do you have an incident team ready available inside

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of the organization?

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And I ask this question for the following reasons.

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Now that they all need to be safety people, because I think sometimes people get them

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that confused.

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They can be from different departments within the organization.

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And I ask this because sometimes you have to have a person in place for this team and

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then you have to have a backup if your organization is big enough to be able to do this.

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Because if you have a catastrophic event that occurs, depending on what the event is, cleanup

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teams, teams that are able to get in contact with emergency services, teams that are able

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to bring in like an emergency HR team for mental health issues.

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Because I'll put it to you this way.

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Hopefully you've never had a serious event occur inside of your organization.

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But if you have, sometimes when those serious events occur, other people see them happen

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in real time.

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And it does not go over well.

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Period.

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And that should, that it should ever go over well.

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But it's tough to think about and how you would prepare for something along those lines.

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And listen, setting this shit up post event is not fun.

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Because if you have these organizations or these team members where you can call and

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have this emergency team come in, this incident team quote unquote come in, it helps out significantly

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opposed to having to vet the people or even get a service provider that can do some of

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this stuff post event.

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Because you don't know how long the setup is going to take.

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Listen, I've had events occur inside of my workplaces that have not been pretty.

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Like I remember a person attempting death by suicide inside of one of the facilities

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that I worked at right in the middle of what we would say quote unquote is called the sales

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floor.

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So we had to close down the store.

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We had to get an emergency team inside of there in regards to the stuff that needed to be

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done.

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And it was at that time I didn't really understand structuring on how that worked.

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But man, there was a team that was ready to be able to interact with the incident.

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So the question that I asked to you, do you have that team set up?

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And if you don't, when will you do or when will you have time to set what up?

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Because it's going to be important.

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You never know when any of these things can happen and life can change in a moment's notice.