Identifying valuable lessons learned
As the cleanup effort gets under way for Hurricane Irene, it is critically important to conduct an “after action” review of your planning and response processes. An “after action” report is a review normally conducted after an exercise to determine the effectiveness. All too often, the review is either put off till no one really remembers the specific details, which in turn makes it very inefficient or it is not done at all. In the past week we have had two episodes from which to learn lessons; the earthquake and the hurricane.
