PRESS RELEASE – THE St. Lucia Employers Federation (SLEF) in collaboration with the Caribbean Employers Confederation (CEC) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) hosted a workshop titled, “Business Continuity & Disaster Management”, yesterday at Bay Gardens Inn.
The proposed agenda for the workshop included how disaster resilience is your business; developing and implementing a Disaster Management Plan; the Role of the National Disaster Management Agency; and Proposed Services that can be offered by the St. Lucia Employers Federation.
Among the facilitators were Vanessa Phala, Senior Specialist Employers’ Activities of the ILO; Robert Teelucksing, Senior Consulting Emergency Management of Tee Luck Sing and Associates Limited; Andrew George, Programme Development Officer at the National Emergency Management Organisation; and Joseph Alexander Executive Director of the St. Lucia Employers Federation.
This workshop was designed to equip participants with measures to improve disaster planning, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.