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Situational · Crisis Response

You're the logistics manager at a food distributor. A reefer carrying $180k of frozen product alarms mid-route — the unit is cycling between −5°C and +4°C and the driver is four hours from your DC. Your QA lead is unreachable for the next hour. Walk me through your next two hours.

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First I’d get the driver stopped and inspecting: confirm the set point, check for a door ajar or unit fault, and switch the reefer to continuous-run mode.…

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Concepts behind this questionThe first hour of a crisis: stabilize, learn, communicate
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