Incident Types

When it comes to threats and hazards, there are four major categories, at least.

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Emergency Management has identified at least four major ‘categories’ of incident typology - those threats and hazards which can have adverse impacts to people and organizations:

Incident Threat Types: Natural/Human-made

Incident Threat Types: Product/Process

Incident Threat Types: Fictitious

• Complex / Cascading (post coming soon)

Crisis Communications Teams need to be ready for all of these - by themselves or together. Sometimes the crisis messaging is similar, sometimes it is novel and needs to be created for the incident “on the fly”.

The CEMIR’s Substack section on Crisis Communications has a number of tips, techniques, knowledge, wisdom, best practices, etc.