The annual Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2012 will take place on 19th to 23rd March.

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Would your business be able to rise from the flames?

Could you be up and running within hours of a flood?

We hope so!

But, as a resiliency specialist, you know that you can’t just trust to luck.

Your business needs to be prepared and ready to deal with the unexpected through realistic, compelling exercises… and that’s where the Multimedia Exercising Box Set: Fire and Flood Collection can help.

This versatile, extensive, powerful yet easy-to-use collection of exercising support materials and resources contains fire and flood film footage, audio scenes and effects as well as web stories specifically created to make it simple for you to explore the potential impacts of a fire or flood.

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This exercise toolkit consists of versatile and easy-to-use fire and flood film footage, sound effects, audio playlets, handouts and freshly designed web based injects, specifically created to bring your fire and flood scenarios to life.

Each kit begins with the onset of an incident, moves onto the incident unfolding and then the aftermath. At each stage, a combination of clips can be used to complement and enhance your story — from news reports and bulletins, clips from press, relatives and third party suppliers to specially created sound effect montages and fictitious online news pages.

Each set provides your organization with a flexible range of engaging and thought-provoking injects in a phase-by-phase framework. Exercise Managers can select appropriate audio, film and print injects according to their scenario Master Events List or use the injects for inspiration and create a scenario events list around them. The selected injects can then be downloaded and embedded into a presentation or played from a desktop. So, using the material on the discs, Exercise Directors can tailor their exercises to suit the specific training needs of their business.

The toolkit scripts conveniently have generic references such as ‘the city,’ the ‘city center.’ and ‘the area,’ to enable the material to apply to as wide an audience as possible. References are universal in their appeal, versatile in their use.

Each disc in the Multimedia Exercising Set includes:

• Film clips and ‘from-the-scene’ film news reports;
• Audio clips including radio news bulletins, plus calls from the press, worried relatives and third party suppliers;
• Printable handouts including web news screens.
• Sound effect montages.

Fire Exercise Toolkit Content

Stage One – The Outbreak of Fire

Stage Two – The situation develops

Stage Three – The Fire is Under Control

Additional Material

Stage One

Film

1. Footage of the fire breaking out in the city- No voice-over
2. TV News Report- Outbreak of the fire in the city

Audio

1. Radio News Bulletin – Outbreak of fire in the city
2. Call from Employee – seeking information, should I come to work?
3. Call from senior employee- seeking information and plan of action
4. Call from Journalist from National newspaper – Can you tell me anything?
5. Call from wife – Have you seen my husband?
6. Call from Contractor- seeking delivery information
7. SFX- Emergency Services/busy traffic
8. SFX- Fire blazing/traffic jam
9. SFX- Fire blazing, fire alarms, sprinklers, sirens, traffic and people outside

Print

1. Scenario assumptions
2. Webpage News article- description of incident so far

Stage Two

Film

1. News Report – High winds cause the fire to spread through the city
2. Footage of the fire spreading through the city, no voice-over

Audio

1. Radio Bulletin – Flames have spread through the city center
2. Call from Journalist – When will business resume?
3. Call from Wife – Complaint to Incident Management Team
4. Call from Employee – Seeking Information
5. Call from Contractor – What about deliveries for the rest of the week?

Print

1. Scenario assumptions
2. Webpage news article – breaking news of the problem

Stage 3

Film

1. Footage of the fire – Now under control (no voice-over)
2. News Report – Fire under control

Audio

1. Financial News Report- Version 1- Estimated damage: £2 Million
2. Financial News Report- Version 2- Estimated damage: £200 Million
3. Radio Bulletin- Fire under Control
4. Call from Employee – complaint to line manager
5. Call from Employee – backlog of work
6. Call from Radio Journalist – seeking information on customer service

Print

1. Scenario assumptions at this stage
2. Webpage News article- summing up the events

Additional Material

1. Fire facts
2. SFX
3. Short film clips

Flood Exercise Toolkit Contents

Stage One- The outbreak of the Flood

Stage Two- The situation develops

Stage Three- The Flood is under control

Additional Material

Stage One

Film

1. TV News Bulletin
2. Montage of severe flooding (No voice-over)

Audio

1. Radio News Report
2. Radio Weather Report
3. Call from office-based employee
4. Call from Manager
5. Call from third-party supplier
6. Call from Worried relative
7. Call from member of the public

Print & Graphics

1. Webpage News article
2. Met Office Press Release

Scripts include

• Radio Weather Report
• TV News Bulletin
• Radio News Report
• Office based Employee phone call
• Call from Manager phone call
• Call from 3^rd Party
• Worried Relative phone call
• Call from Member of the Public

Stage Two

Film

1. TV News Bulletin- Fears of contaminated drinking water
2. Montage of flood footage

Audio

1. Radio News Report – Mounting problems
2. News Report – Health risks (with Interview)
3. Call from employee
4. Manager and Employee- How are you coping with the relocation?

Print

1. Web-page News article
2. Health Protection Agency regarding flood water

Scripts include

• TV News Bulletin
• Radio News Report – Mounting Problems
• Radio News Report – Health Risks with Interview
• Call from Employee
• Manager and Employee – How are you coping with the relocation?

Stage Three

Film

1. TV News Bulletin- Clean up underway
2. Montage of flood footage

Audio

1. Radio News Report – Clean Up underway
2. Call from Newspaper journalist
3. Radio phone in – Do you blame the Authorities?
4. Call from Customer 1
5. News Report- Financial Report

Print & Graphics

1. Webpage News article 1 – Flood Victims face dangerous aftermath
2. Webpage News article 2 – Fixing the flooding infrastructure
3. Web page news Article – Insurance costs rise

Scripts Include

• Call from Customer
• News Report- Financial Impact
• Radio Phone In
• Call from Journalist
• Radio News Report
• TV News Report

Additional Material

1. Flood facts
2. SFX
3. Short film clips

Notes:

This product is licensed for internal business use only.

In order to run these disks you will need to have Shockwave Player 11 installed on your computer, which is downloadable for free.

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Both academics and practitioners in the fields of resilience, continuity, emergency, crisis and disaster management write articles, posts and papers about topics important to their field. Some of the most interesting of these outputs share lessons from previous events, provide case studies, introduce new tools and technologies and share research findings and results.

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On Feb. 7, 2011, at 7:45 p.m., smoke detectors were tripped at Pitney Bowes’ largest mail services presort facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, as a fire that started in another company’s nearby facility rapidly spread.

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The upcoming 15th Edition of the Disaster Resource GUIDE is complimentary to BC/EM/ERM industry professionals.

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A panel of experts at a roundtable organized by information infrastructure company EMC agreed that disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity strategies must have board-level backing to succeed.

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Just 23% of the 414 respondents to InformationWeek’s latest BC/DR survey use cloud services as part of their application and data resiliency strategies. What’s the holdup?

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Private and public clouds can make high-quality DR/COOP more affordable — if you don’t undermine yourself with outmoded assumptions.

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InformationWeek has released a research report, Cloud’s Role in BC/DR, encompassing analysis of results from InformationWeek’s 2011 Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Survey and guiding readers in using cloud services to improve their BC/DR strategies.

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One of the basic tenets of emergency planning is that a plan that has not been tested is not real. Unfortunately, while the best way to test plans is an operational exercise, the resource demands of functional and full scale exercises mean that we cannot hold them as frequently as we would like.

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