The warning comes from two prominent security and risk-management professionals, who emphasized that crisis management applies to international threats of terrorism, political unrest or natural disasters as much as to potential disease pandemics.
The individuals – a medical director for International SOS and the other a managing director at global risk management firm Kroll – highlighted the importance of keeping crisis-management programs current; including a social-media game plan to communicate news and control messaging; having mass evacuation plans; possibly engaging a travel-advisory service that can link to a risk-management provider; and taking proactive measures to protect not only American workers placed in high-risk areas but local nationals employed by organizations as well.