ARETION is a consulting firm specialising in disaster management, business continuity and risk management. We help hospitals, government agencies and companies prepare for emergencies, respond to them, recover from them and reduce their impact. Every solution is built from our advisers' experience of real events, as practising disaster managers, disaster-response leaders, business continuity consultants and risk managers, rather than from generic templates. We work in Saudi Arabia, the GCC and the UK, in Arabic and English.
We assess hazards and vulnerabilities, set continuity requirements, write emergency and business continuity plans, and train the people who will carry them out. Each plan states who decides, who acts and which resources they use, so it holds up under pressure.
We set up incident command structures, activation criteria, notification cascades and surge procedures, so that when an event begins, roles, decisions and lines of communication are already agreed and rehearsed.
We plan how critical services and operations return, in the order the business impact analysis sets, with recovery teams, alternate sites and supplier arrangements defined in advance.
We find the risks that can be reduced before an event, such as single points of failure, dependence on one supplier and weaknesses in facilities or utilities, and keep them in a risk register with owners and treatment plans.
We work with the owner of each activity to map what it depends on: people, sites, technology and suppliers.
From the analysis, we agree four measures for each critical activity with its owner.
We write or revise the plans, aligned with ISO 22301 and with the requirements that apply to your sector.
We test the plans, moving from discussion to deployment as the team gains confidence.
We close every exercise, and every real activation of a plan, with a structured review.
Our advisers bring practical experience of real events to every engagement, rather than plans that have never been tested. Their experience covers these types of event:
They work as practising disaster managers, disaster-response leaders, business continuity consultants and risk managers, alongside emergency and disaster medicine physicians and CBRNE preparedness specialists.
We do not name specific events, deployments or clients on this page. Each adviser's own profile sets out their record.
About the advisers: Dr. Bandar Mzahim, Dr. Bandar Saad Almutairi, Dr. Heetaf Aloqaily, Dr. Mohammed Badawy, Dr. Mohammed Sultan, Dr. Sharafaldeen Bin Nafisah, Dr. Taha Mohammed Masri, Nidaa Bajow, Dr. Hassan Farhat, Dr. Shahad Aldawsari, Dr. Zakaria Mani, Badar Alotaibi
Each adviser below is filed under Disaster Management Consulting on ARETION's advisers page. Open a profile to read their record, or book a private session online.
Disaster Medicine Leader and EMS Consultant
Emergency Medicine Consultant and Emergency Department Leader
Emergency Medicine Consultant and Disaster Medicine Specialist
Emergency and Disaster Medicine Consultant
Disaster and Public Health Emergency Management Specialist
Leader in Business Continuity, Resilience and Risk Governance
Disaster Medicine Leader and Emergency Medicine Consultant
Disaster Medicine Physician and Educator
Engagements can draw on ARETION's systems for critical operations and resilience:
A disaster management system that brings signals, decisions, teams and execution into one operating picture.
An early-warning system, validated for heavy rain and flash floods 1 to 5 days ahead.
Organises the triage, tracking and transport of patients in mass-casualty incidents.
A consultation starts with your context: critical services, current plans and known risks. The adviser then reviews or leads a business impact analysis, agrees recovery objectives (RTO, RPO, MTPD and MBCO), drafts or revises continuity and emergency plans, and designs exercises to test them. You receive written findings and a prioritised list of actions.
Yes. Our business continuity work is aligned with ISO 22301, the international standard for business continuity management systems. We follow its cycle of context, impact analysis, strategy, plans, exercising and review, and use its terms. ARETION does not issue certificates; an audit by an accredited body is a separate, optional step for the organisation.
In stages. A tabletop exercise walks leaders through a scenario to test decisions and roles. Functional and full-scale exercises then move real staff, beds, equipment and partner agencies, for example in a simulated patient surge or evacuation. Each exercise ends with an after-action review, and the plan is updated before the next one.
Disaster management deals with events that cause physical harm or overwhelm normal capacity, such as floods, earthquakes or mass-casualty incidents, across preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. Crisis management deals with threats to an organisation's reputation, strategy or the trust of its stakeholders, and centres on leadership decisions and communication. Many events need both, under one command structure.
Yes. Advisers with mass-gathering experience assess attendance, duration, venue, climate and expected health risks, then plan medical posts, staffing, ambulance access, patient distribution to hospitals, communication and surge arrangements. The plan is tested in a tabletop exercise before the event and reviewed afterwards, so its lessons carry into the next gathering.
We work in Saudi Arabia, across the Gulf Cooperation Council states and in the United Kingdom, from offices in Riyadh and London. Work can be delivered on site, remotely or as a combination of both, in Arabic or English, depending on what the engagement needs and on the advisers involved.
Individuals and organisations can book a private session directly with an adviser in this discipline on the advisers page, choosing a date and time online. For a larger engagement, such as a full continuity programme or a series of exercises, request a proposal and we will reply within 48 hours.
Start with a private session with an adviser in this discipline, or ask for a proposal for a business continuity programme, a plan review or a series of exercises. We reply to proposal requests within 48 hours.
