EPP Blog

It seems that nearly every generation has its signature emergency operations center (EOC) movie. You may remember Peter Sellers in “Doctor Strangelove – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love [...]

Don’t think succession planning is important? One of the biggest challenges gas, electric, and water utilities are facing is an aging workforce, and the projections are absolutely [...]

Managing mutual assistance communications is a challenge. It involves a high level of coordination to organize, deploy, and track external resources – yet we’re not always well versed in terms of [...]

When it comes to communications technology, the ‘good old days’ of the 70’s and 80’s weren’t really, well, all that good. Landline phones were wired into walls, low-band radios had issues with [...]

Title and Years in the Industry Eileen K. Unger is a licensed professional engineer in the State of New Jersey, and the founder and President of Emergency Preparedness Partnerships (EPP), a New [...]

The efficiency of information flow through an organization – and from one organization to another – is a critical success factor when it comes to emergency response. Internally, disasters require [...]

We spend much of our time thinking about emergency preparedness in the context of natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy, but there’s definitely more out there to be prepared for, not the [...]

There’s no doubt about it; there is a strong connection that exists between the natural gas, electric and water utilities, and this relationship has only strengthened over time (and will [...]

Effective ice storm customer communication is a two-way street – flowing inward and outward seamlessly.  Customers need to report outages and downed wires.  Utilities need to convey [...]

Ice can be dangerous, plain and simple.  It doesn’t matter whether you’re walking, driving or working in icy conditions – there are many hazards to negotiate.  Restoration [...]