I recently returned from helping Samoa’s national TV and radio broadcasters update their disaster resilience capability. This was a fabulous experience and came about after Kestrel was awarded a tender, through the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), to improve the...
Anthony Leighs Managing Director, Leighs Construction If a giant pre-cast panel slips and kills one of your men and pins others beneath it, what are you going to do? Hopefully this isn’t something your company ever needs to face but, if it does, you need to be well prepared. Last month, Kestrel...
New Zealand is privileged to be hosting the IX meeting of the World Forum of Catastrophe Programmes this month in Christchurch. This is an annual forum that has its origins from a meeting of like minds in 2005. At that time the CEOs of two of the oldest and most respected national disaster...
If you are interested in building an organisation or community that can survive and thrive in an ever changing world of technological discontinuity, climate change, and natural disasters, this event is for you. Run by ‘Resilience Organisations’ as part of their celebration of ten years of ongoing...
Telecom is one of those companies that know how to deal with a crisis; they’re experienced in dealing with network issues, outages and they’ve operated through several earthquakes. But even a company as seasoned as this one sees the value in putting in place exercises for the Crisis Management...
Organisations need to understand what resilience means for the buildings they inhabit or own. Here are some of the issues for an organisation to consider as it works through the challenges ahead. This article by Dr Erica Seville, Resilient Organisations New Zealand, Dave Brunsdon, Kestrel Group...
Congratulations to Kestrel’s very own award winning children’s story writer: Suzanne Main. Suzanne, who is our accounts administrator, picked up the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award at Storylines Margaret Mahy Day in late March for her children’s novel: How I alienated my grandmother. Suzanne...
Just as businesses should have adequate insurance to underpin their risk management strategies it is important for a family to be able to rely on insurance should sudden disaster strike and threaten its financial viability. A family’s greatest physical asset is its home (another vital asset is the...
Ports of Auckland staff expecting just another day at work were in for a surprise recently when Kestrel Group swung into action and unleashed an emergency scenario to respond to. The Scenario: The driver of a straddle carrier suffers a heart attack and loses control of the machine when working in...
Kestrel’s Dave Brunsdon helped co-ordinate the rapid impact assessment of buildings in the Wellington CBD following the 20 July 6.5 Cook Strait earthquake. For Dave this meant hitting the ground running at first light on Monday morning helping to organise operations for Wellington City Council’s...