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What is Crisis Management and how does it affect remote workers?

By definition Crisis Management is the practice that comes into force to either react to or prevent a major event that could end with devastating effects.

Author: mark sheldon
Date: Feb 20, 2010 - 2:47:30 PM


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By definition Crisis Management is the practice that comes into force to either react to or prevent a major event that could end with devastating effects.    There is nothing that resembles a crisis more than the potential loss of life.

This is sadly something that is all too familiar when you think of scenarios such as military operations, air force incidents and remote workers who have to cope with hostile environments when working trying to help those less fortunate than themselves.  

Crisis Management is all about planning.  It’s about making the necessary arrangements on how to react should the worst occur.  Where possible it’s about preempting situations and being one step ahead of anything that might happen.  For remote workers it’s about securing the environment and allowing them to go about their job without having to think about ‘what might happen next’.  

Convoys, especially those in remote locations, are totally vulnerable to attack, either through desire of theft or just pure disruption to aid or rescue efforts.  This makes driving a convoy a high risk job and crisis management solutions may allow for the convoy to be tracked. 

This means that a central management base are aware of the location of the convoy at all times and can either react to crisis or offer proactive assistance through redirecting the convoy to avoid conflict.  

Remote workers don’t just have to be working in war zones.  Another example of a remote worker might be mountain rescue.  In such a scenario crisis management training and planning is absolutely essential as natural disasters could happen at any time.  GPS technology is of vital importance to mountain rescue teams as it allows for rescue workers or guides to be monitored at all times with minimal disruption.  

GPS technology plays a huge part in Crisis management in today’s world, mainly due to its powerful communication and tracking capabilities.  Through small, discrete hand held devices remote workers can stay in close communication with support teams back at base or on the ground.  Crisis Management teams can become a second set of eyes that have a total overall view on what is going on.


Track24 is are  crisis management professionals offering a range of GPS tracking products  to help manage and avoid potential high risk crisis situations.



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