Our Work: Consulting and Project Services

For information about personal preparedness packages, please click this link.  All packages  can be augmented to include: tune-up sessions to document changes; household practice drills; consultation and coordination with schools, other organizations or individuals; planning, development, and stocking of household supply kits and caches for 7 to 30 days; safety product evaluations and recommendations; referral to trusted security consultants, and other contractors; training sessions with household services providers; help with arrangements for relatives livings in retirement or long term care settings; and more.

• Personal risk factors and mitigation
• Situational risk assessment including home, work, community and other settings
• Developing situational awareness
• Understanding criminal thinking
• Recognizing predator ploys; effective responses
• Interpreting and responding to intuition signals
• Employing situational crime prevention techniques
• Evaluating home security products and services

• Assessment and Planning (evacuation, communication, security, safe rooms, supply caches, and emergency knowledge and skills)
• Implementation (selection, purchase, storage, and documentation)
• Document selection, compilation, copying, and storage
• Inventory listings, descriptions, and pictorial record for insurance loss documentation

Customization of Defying Disaster™ games to meet organizational goals. Development, of new educational games and products on the subjects of disaster preparedness and response, infection prevention and control, and health and safety topics, including illness and hazard prevention. Games and products can be produced  in various media, formats and platforms for a variety of devices including electronic, computer, hand-held, phone, cellular, video, multimedia, interactive, electronic, card, and board.

We provide expert services to assist in the identification, investigation, prevention, surveillance and control of infectious and communicable disease threats, outbreaks and epidemics, to identify root causes and develop effective control programs. We have extensive experience preventing and resolving problems with MRSA, C. difficile, influenza, scabies, drug-resistant TB and other organisms, and pneumonia, both ventilator-related and healthcare acquired,  in several settings, as well as other conditions. We can resolve outbreaks, and epidemics as well as recalcitrant infection control problems that require a systematic, programatic approach.

Formal evaluations, comprehensive reviews and demonstrations, on- or off-site. Opportunities to simultaneously evaluate several competing products without a purchase commitment. Defying Disaster™ and its associates make no personal or commercial agreements that would hinder objective product selection or evaluations.

Please contact us to discuss your specific needs. Defying Disaster™ consulting services are available on a one-time or ongoing contractual basis.

Fees range from $40 to $150 per hour, with a four-hour minimum. Travel time is charged for local travel over 30 miles from Napa, CA; travel expenses for locations outside the SF Bay Area. Roz Potter is available for phone consultations and speaking engagements.