Sandra has spent many years focused on making the public aware of what will happen in the event of a major disaster in the Wellington region. This has included education and training, developing emergency response plans for schools and developing and facilitating workshops and practical exercises for schools and businesses.
Working for the Wellington City Council Emergency Management Office, Sandra gained extensive experience in emergency management planning and response co-ordination. This included practical experience while assisting in local flooding and fire events.
In 2003 Sandra attended the multi-hazard emergency planning for schools course at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Emmitsburg, USA gaining extensive knowledge in planning for educational facilities.
Sandra developed the Wellington City Emergency Management in Schools package. In recognition of this work, Sandra was invited to lead the development of a national emergency management school resource, What's the Plan Stan? funded by the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management.
Recently she has co-ordinated the development and delivery of a training package for operational personnel in the Auckland CDEM Group Emergency Operations Centre.
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Dave has a range of interests within the Emergency Management field, with a current focus on promoting infrastructure resilience and the implementation of new national post-disaster building safety evaluation arrangements. He is the National Engineering Lifelines Co-ordinator, and is a Past-President of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.
Over the last eight years Karen's work in crisis management, business continuity and emergency management has taken her around the world, managing assignments in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Her extensive experience includes working with major corporations, large Government departments and local government.
Kristin's typical clients include the health, utility and governmental organisations, most of whom are members of Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups. As such, they have legislative obligations in declared emergencies. Kristin has worked on developing training programmes in emergency preparedness, developing and facilitating exercises that test emergency plans and organisational relationships, critiquing plans and assisting organisations to improve emergency management components of their operations. Kristin also assists clients in alignment of their business continuity and emergency management processes.
Gavin brings a unique skillset to comprehensive emergency management in New Zealand. His background includes tertiary studies in management science, information systems, geographical information systems (GIS) and emergency management. 