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ERC…Leading the Way

ERC provides professional consulting services defined by our customers’ needs. Our experts have years of experience and are nationally recognized in areas of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. These professionals work in partnership with clients to identify and develop strategies for any type of emergency they may face.

ERC is one of the world’s premier providers of all-hazards consulting and technical services for both public and private sector organizations, delivering resources to all types of clients:

  • Emergency Medical services and Hospitals
  • Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Fire, EMS, and Rescue Departments
  • Airports, Harbors, and Highways
  • Corporate Entities
  • Educational Institutions
  • Public Works
  • Civil Defense Organizations
  • Construction Firms
  • Industry Light and Heavy Manufacturing
  • Utility Providers
  • Energy Producers
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ERC’s group of all-hazards consultants regularly deliver a wide range of technical services that get results quickly and cost effectively. Our scope-of-services are overseen by Professor Rogers on every project to ensure quality control and timely results. ERC’s scope of services include:

  • Speakers Bureau Services
  • Emergency Management and Disaster Coordination
  • Homeland Security and Terrorism Planning and Preparedness
  • Airport Federal Aviation Administration Security and Emergency Planning and Drills
  • Self-Assessments & Effectiveness Reviews
  • Disaster Planning, Assessments, Drills
  • Emergency Operations Plans, Assessments, Drills
  • Emergency Response Evaluations and Incident Reports
  • Third Party Evaluations
  • Community Risk Assessments
  • Business and Government Continuity Plans
  • Technical Evaluations, Studies, & Reports
  • Corporate Risk Assessments, Emergency Plans, and Evaluations
  • Inspections & Auditing Services
  • Implementation “Growing Pains” and Specialized Research
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Each client has different needs. We at ERC do not use a “cookie cutter” approach to planning, evaluating, exercising, and overall assessment. Our technical reports are accurate, easy-to-read and functional. Our work has stood the test of time, and many major disasters.
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Our Philosophy

ERC works hard to provide true objective evaluations, studies, assessments, and services that are based on a balance of analytical data acquired and the actual and problematic circumstances and conditions that your organization’s operational delivery system or processes face. Our philosophy is based on maintaining a balance between technology and recognized processes combined with keen sensitivity to the human element of your organization that is the core of all emergency service business. ERC prides itself in creative, practical, and cost effective solutions that helps our clients attain useful products that work.
With a nationally recognized small staff of subject matter experts, technicians, professors and instructors in emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, our team of professionals work in partnership with our clients to identify, formulate and develop strategies, methods, processes and recommendations that deliver a broad range of comprehensive and client-focused all-hazards services.
Some of the things we do everyday for our client base… 

Professional Speakers Bureau

ERC is recognized internationally for the staff of subject matter experts, specialists, and prominent instructors that provide dynamic presentations and instruction worldwide. We are not in the business of “motivational speaker ease”. We provide subject matter experts that draw crowds because of their professional accolades. Whether you are looking for a keynote speaker with experience and education in the emergency response business, or a talented instructor to manage confrontational break out sessions, or a speaker with current information on timely topics in emergency response ERC’s speakers are constantly listed and rated as the top presenters for many conferences.

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We provide the highest quality client-centered service available. Our speakers’ topics include: leadership/management, all-hazards emergency management, preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery, emergency operation center management, National Incident Management System, Incident Command System, injury reduction, safety & health. Our professional instructors deliver course overview presentations that help managers and executives make key decisions in regard to training programs. We work with our clients to formulate and develop high performance presentations that fit their specific conference needs. With a team of over forty professionals to draw from for speaker engagements ERC has the person, with not only the training and education, but the professional field experience and background to fit our growing customer lists of needs. There is no emergency response organization with the depth of knowledge and background for professional presentations like ERC. At ERC our presenters have “walked the walk”, not just “talked the talk”… With five fire chiefs with over 100 years of experience, eight Type I team NWCG wild land fire professionals, five professors in emergency response, three medical doctors, and countless other professionals in law enforcement, terrorism, and emergency medical services that we bring with our team, there is no better qualified professional speaking bureau available.


Examples of Speaker Presentations & Engagements

  • National and International Summits
  • State, County, and Local events
  • Federal, State, Local Governmental Meetings and Presentations
  • National and International Conventions
  • Federal and State Aviation Conferences
  • Homeland Security Conferences and Summits
  • Insurance, Hospitality, Tourism Conferences
  • Higher Education Conferences
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Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Protecting Your Business Against Disasters

Planning for a disaster is not a waste of time and resources, it very well could be the best thing you ever do for your business. Disruption in all your systems (computer, voice, and data networks) for even a few minutes can cause severe business hardship. Having an incident plan in place will help your business lessen the impact of a disaster.


ERC can help you develop effective action plans for pre-incident, incident operational period, and post-incident disaster events. Our subject matter experts have created solutions in continuity planning for a wide range of clients both nationally and internationally.


Continuity Planning Is Important for Business

ERC recognizes that Business Continuity Planning is crucial in today’s business environment. Our team will identify measures that can be taken to mitigate and reduce the severity of impact on your organization.

What is Business Continuity Planning

Now that you see how BCP can work, where do you start? That’s where the experts at ERC can help you. ERC evaluates organizations for disaster preparedness. We look for, and find risk factors which are potential points of failure in an emergency. Working with you, team members develop a business continuity plan that will minimize the effects of a disaster incident on your organization. ERC continuity plans address all the critical and significant functions and operations of your business or corporation.


ERC plans are organized into four phases: preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.

ERC written plans have included the following:

  • Thorough Evaluation and prioritization of critical needs that lead to plan testing, training, and evaluation
  • A comprehensive plan addressing all key operations in the functional areas of your
    organization, including usable recovery strategies, implementation of
    business recovery teams, possible restoration procedures and strategies, and temporary operating procedures
  • Organized review of potential recovery facilities and off-site procedures
  • Prioritization of processing and operations to determine the recovery timeframe
    required for each potential operation, function, system, or service
  • Overview and comparison of existing disaster recovery insurance and
  • Software and programming to maintain, audit, publish, and reproduce your plan
  • Alternate site selection and costing factors given the new continuity plan
  • Identification of threats and their impact on your organization, and
    implementation of risk prevention techniques

How Business Continuity can work for your organization:

  • One of the best ways to minimize damage and loss to your business property
  • Properly prepared businesses survive and recover quicker with reduced financial burdens
  • Executives and staff will be less likely to overreact or commit ineffective or costly
    resources in the event of a disaster, damage and loss to your business property
  • You effectively prepare your staff and business before any disruption from a disaster event
  • Maintaining business continuity brings new clients when competition may be down

What are the Benefits of BCP

  • Having a pre-incident plan gives your business an immediate place to start for an organized response to any emergency. Your employees know exactly what to do, and what to expect.
  • All critical business functions are identified and prioritized regardless of the scope and scale of the incident
  • All resources are identified for a continuation of operation from technology, production, as well as human capital
  • It will not matter what the size, type, or scale of incident, you will have a plan in place that will work for any type of disaster.

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Learning From Past Incidents and Operating Experiences

When you partner with ERC, your organization will benefit from our years of experience and proven track record in developing disaster plans that will work for you during all emergencies. ERC has comprehensive consulting services and the scope and depth that provide cost effective benefits for any size organization.

Master planning& Strategic Planning/Analysis Services

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ERC has completed many comprehensive master planning and strategic analysis. We have a staff with a variety skills from numerous emergency management agencies, organizations and governmental agencies that develop solid cost effective solutions to some complex planning challenges. ERC experts come from the planning business and understand the issues that influence and affect the delivery of emergency services. Our professionals can aid in a thorough review to help our clients evaluate their level of preparedness.
  • SCOPE OF SERVICES

    Fire Protection Services Evaluations
  • Strategic Deployment & Response Studies
  • Airports, Ports, and Transportation Emergency Planning, Implementation and Evaluation
  • Educational Institutions All-Risk Emergency Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
  • Pre-Fire Planning Services
  • Public Works Disaster Planning and Assessment
  • Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
  • Virtual Emergency Operations Centers for Private Business
  • Community Risk Assessment Studies
  • Disaster Planning and Assessment
  • Special Hazards Assessments, Evaluations & Research Studies
  • Disaster Master Planning for all Levels of Government
ERC…Leading the Way