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In Bath and Bristol, emergency response is treated as a core management task

A Bath business screening and a Bristol housing charity's job posting both treat climate and housing crises as immediate operational planning concerns.

Two local organisations are using the language of emergency in separate sectors, framing crises as immediate management responsibilities.

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution is inviting Bath-area businesses to a screening of the People's Emergency Briefing on 12 October, after which attendees will reflect on business resilience, strategic planning, risk management and leading people through continuous change [1]. Juliet Daye, co-founder of event host and sponsor Satori OD, said climate change is "a here-and-now challenge" and that the climate and nature crisis is central to the risk and planning work business leaders already do [1].

Caring in Bristol is recruiting a service manager for Z House, its emergency accommodation for 18- to 25-year-olds experiencing housing crisis [2]. The advertised job includes responsibility for referrals and placements, safeguarding, partnership working and risk management [2].

Read together, the two notices show organisations in Bath and Bristol treating emergency response—for the climate in one case, for young people in housing crisis in the other—as an operational duty involving planning and risk management [1][2].

Sources

  1. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution: Bath Business Leaders Invited to Screening of National Emergency Briefing Film at BRLSI
  2. Caring in Bristol: Careers

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