#23 - Connecting Global Crisis Teams

In Case of Emergency

- The Success of Hybrid Crisis Management

Guest Speaker - Graham Brown, Manager - Crisis and Response, Petrofac Training Services

Graham is one of the UK oil and gas industry’s most experienced Emergency Preparedness and Response practitioners, with over 30 years of experience. He has supported energy companies in the UK and overseas in Malaysia. He has personally responded to around 100 real emergencies including multiple medical or fatal accidents, fire and explosions, oil spills, vessel collisions, installation evacuation and abandonment, protester boardings, and hostage situations. In between real emergencies he works with a team of practitioners based in Aberdeen at Petrofac’s Emergency Response Service Centre to design and deliver client responder Incident and Crisis Management preparedness programmes worldwide.

02:47 -How would you define what is a professional responder?

05:03 - In regards to the pandemic, how has that disrupted business models across all industries? and how do you think that specific crisis centres like yours, Petrofac is impacted?

07:35 - During the pandemic you took everything from your physical environment in your centre and you just virtualised it using tools and technologies such as teams. Perhaps the software solution from F24 as well helped you to achieve it?

08:42 - If we want to look at an optimal crisis response - Is there a way that you can define it or how it would be set up?

11:37 - How does the industry requirements impact your preparedness or the organisations preparedness?

14:20 - What have you learned by working in your profession that you may have adopted as a standard working practice either in your personal life or perhaps your professional life?