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Severe Weather Events – Effective Planning (SWEEP)
Summary
To develop/build on national effectiveness, resilience, response and communication before, during and after a severe weather event.
Minimum Entry Requirements
Learning Outcomes
After completing this course you will be able to:
- describe the impacts of severe weather on both the customer and the end user;
- target warnings to the end user, with an understanding of the decisions taken on receipt of the warning by that user;
- develop plans and design a method of attributing confidence to a warning;
- organise regular discussions with stakeholders to know what actions they take, and to practise their severe weather plans;
- develop a system to continually collect and maintain weather data;
- communicate before, during and after the event;
- issue warnings with regular updates and amendments if necessary, by a variety of methods including social networking (Facebook, Twitter, etc), web, email, phone calls, etc;
- investigate the concept of a Public Weather Service Advisor;
- broadcast confidently and directly to the media;
- identify and adopt a business continuity plan;
- securely archive warnings.
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