Following the signal to abandon ship, it took Costa Cruises just under three hours to release their first statement. The company confirmed the evacuation of approximately 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crewmembers from the Costa Concordia. The press release stated that at the time, the cause of the incident could not be confirmed and assured the public that they were “working with the highest commitment to provide all needed assistance to guests, crew members and the local Italian authorities”. The statement poses questions by stating that “approximately 1,000 passengers of Italian nationality were on board, as well as more than 500 Germans, and 250 North Americans. This only accounts for half of the number of passengers. Costa should have …show more content…
The key messages conveyed by Foschi were that the company has a strict safety policy, all crew behaved according to evacuation procedures and that the poor judgment of Captain Schettino caused the incident. Many questions and allegations were brought up during the conference such as reports that the captain left the ship before all passengers and crew had been evacuated. Foschi responded by saying, “We are unable to ascertain whether he left the ship before the conclusion of the evacuation. Some internal testimony indicates that he really tried to stay on board but we have to wait for the formal investigation.” So, Foschi stated that the company had to wait for the conclusion of the formal investigation to comment any further on that allegation, yet they were quick to put all the blame on the captain to mitigate their own liability. Foschi said that the captain wanted to “salute” the island of Giglio by bringing the ship close to the shore. He did not follow the authorized route that was frequently used by Costa Ships and brought the ship about 150 metres from the island where it struck the rock, which was clearly marked on charts. Foschi confirmed that on one other occasion, August 9th and 10th 2011, another Costa ship sailed close to shore but the path was approved by all necessary authorities and the ship was never less than 500 metres from the
I believe all of the strategies mentioned in the text can help someone during a crisis, but i believe the best coping strategies for a crisis are: friends & relatives, religion, and laughter. I believe that having a support system during any type of crisis helps make the situation that much better. According to David Knox and Caroline Schacht (2013) people are “less affected by the loss of material possessions” during a natural disaster when they know that their family is together (p. 409). I have noticed that when i have gone through some sort of crisis in my life that I was able to get through it with a smile on my face with the more support i had. Also, because of my faith, i believe that religion is another huge positive stress-management
12/28/2017: Crisis Session was conducted in Spanish. Stephanie and her family arrived to NJCC for a crisis session. Stephanie informed this CIS that she was raped by her friend’s boyfriend. Reporting assailant is 19 years old and Stephanie is 15 years old. Stephanie reported guilt from the incident due to leaving her house to hang out with reporting assailant (R.A.). Stephanie informed this CIS that the reporting assailant was consistently calling her and she finally agreed to hang out with him. Stephanie reported that she was raped in his car and now every time she sees his car she begins to feel anxious. The incident took place about 2 weeks ago.
In order to explore how a crisis worker would approach, assess, and treat a crisis situation, this paper will focus on the story of Melody, the victim of a brutal rape. Melody Swanson is a 50 year old, divorced teacher who has been living alone since her children went to college two months ago. Melody came home from a short vacation to the casino and was met in her driveway by an armed man in his twenties. She was abducted at gunpoint, beaten, raped, robbed, and left abandoned several miles from her home. Melody was able to find help and was
For several years we have had several issues with the increasing number of operating staple of medical training for centuries. Resident physicians routinely worked 90–100 hours per week, for up to 36 consecutive hours without rest, for the entire duration of residency training. (Dhruv Khullar, 2017) A surgical resident working that many hours puts our facility at a great risk for human error, which in this case is resulting in operating room deaths. We are now experiencing an internal crisis, which is an event that is isolated within a facility.
“Dad dad can i go and explore first class.” said Elsie “sher Elsie.” said dad. It all started in the morning of may first. They said Lusitania was like a floating palace. So in my mind the Lusitania was an easy target. My evidence for this is “Thousands of miles away,a much smaller boat had also headed out to sea too. It was a German-u boat.
“Shh! He is trying to tell us something!” yelled one of the sailors who saw and helped Kurt
what happened that night. Only time will tell, how a ship, that was built to be unsinkable,
An effective crisis management response plan outlines specific procedures for administrator, teachers, and students during evacuation emergencies. Administrators work with teachers, students, parents, law enforcement officers, business and community members, to develop an effective emergency and crises plan. The administrator provides leadership in developing and monitoring the school safety plan and also establishes procedures for emergency evacuation and crisis management at different stages of the plan. However, an effective leader develops a comprehensive prevention education plan, and regularly reviews the code of conduct manual for revisions and current laws.
After completing the required readings for this module, post your original response to the discussion prompt by clicking Reply below the prompt and enter your response. Include appropriate citations to support your response.
In today’s world, there has been one disaster or another, and hurricanes are one of those disasters that always happens. But, for one reason or another we are never prepared or understand the danger of any type of hurricane over a category one. Most of us have been through many hurricanes, like this learner who has lived in Miami, Fla. for over 30 years, and experienced her last hurricane which was Hurricane Andrew. Warnings are always given, first responders are trained to all ways be on alert, and FEMA is supposed to be ready to jump in once the storm has done its damage. But we can never be prepared, because hurricanes are unpredictable, and can become deadly for citizens and create millions of dollars in damages. Within this post we will discuss Hurricane Katrina, preparedness and Emergency management before and after the disaster.
Here is the final version of the crisis management strategy report which was commissioned by yourself on Monday 5 May 2014.
Crisis communication is the most important aspect of external and internal organization communication. This type of communication ranges from image restoration campaigns to employee turnover. In the articles that I have analyzed, I discovered many examples of crisis communications and its importance. I will discuss the Bridgestone-Firestone Corporation's image restoration campaign and explain Benoit's theory of image restoration. Also, I will discuss how crisis communications fits into public relations models. Two examples for discussion will be how supervisors should convey bad-news to their employees, and group communication within employee turnover. My last example for this discussion will be Bill Clinton's image repair discourse.
In a new form of protection and communication, social media is the main thing that everything is using in today’s times. Marketing employees have positions as titled as social media directors. Companies have people watching and monitoring everything that happens with their social media reputation all hours of the day everyday. Young people are seeing the power of social media everyday with teachers demonstrating how fast a picture can be shared across the world. Social media is relatively new and could possibly open many gates for communication. This depends heavily on who is publishing information and news on social media. If news spreads fast on social media, then the use of it can be used for emergencies. If many people are
In less than two decades, social media has revolutionized modern communication and information sharing. What began as a simple form of social networking has turned into innumerable platforms for people around the globe to share ideas, create and share businesses, promote brands, read news from various sources, as well as share and find vast amounts of information, among many other uses. Thus, with a few clicks of a button, people are now able to interact with someone on the other side of the world. The capabilities created through social media’s many uses have forever changed global politics, business, and interpersonal communication.
What is a crisis management? It is an unexpected crisis that happens on the company that will affect the trust and loyalty of the stakeholder. It can be extremely costly because it will affect the company reputation and brand. For example like financial failure from poor business management, workplace violence, fires, cybercrime, computer viruses, product tampering or union strikes and other external issue like damaged economy that causes from London bombings, terrorists attacks on 11 September and others. The SHRM 2005 report indicates that only 56% organizations created or revised their disaster preparedness plans but 45% did not after the terrorist attacked on