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Manufacturing, Distribution Business Continuity
A new Business Continuity template specifically designed for manufacturing or distribution businesses with 1,150+ pages on CD-ROM. More...
Principles and Practice of Business Continuity
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Emotional Crises in the Workplace
Provides well-tested Emotional Continuity Management tools that bridge human emotional dynamics with the fiscal demands of a company. More...
Comprehensive Business Continuity Management Program
A complete template program for business on CD-ROM that includes advice for all development steps from the Information Collection Process, through the Business Analysis, to the actual Business Continuity and Crisis Response documentation and finally with assistance for the ongoing exercising and maintenance process. More...
NEW BOOK - Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning, Community Preparedness
The new book Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness introduces readers to the critical global and domestic issues regarding a potential pandemic. More...
Representatives from the largest operational area in the third largest U.S. state gathered Wednesday, July 28, 2010 to participate in the mock detonation of a 10-kiloton improvised nuclear device.
You’re packing for vacation and your spouse turns to you and says, “You’re not taking your BlackBerry with you — are you?” How should you respond?
When the World Trade Center collapsed, it took out a critical AT&T switch, crippling service. It was restored in 52 hours – including the time to drive a caravan of 18-wheelers from Atlanta to a lot in Jersey City. Read the rest of this entry »
SHELDUS™ is a county-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard events types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados.
Contemporary emergency response agencies pose what, on first blush, might seem to be an intriguing organizational conundrum. Fire and EMS organizations, for example, are enterprises that are strongly and very visibly accountable for preparedness respecting the big, the bad and the ugly, those major incidents that can subject a community and its leadership to truly undesirable variations on Andy Warhol’s famed 15 minutes.
All risk managers/business continuity practitioners put a lot of time and effort into developing programs and plans to avoid or mitigate risks.
How can business continuity (BC) professionals be more actively involved in emergency management planning for their organizations? How important are emergency management planning activities and emergency management standards?
Between 8,000 at 10,000 GPS receivers could have been affected by a problem that happened when new software was installed. How would your business handle a GPS outage?
While emergency managers grapple with tight budgets and never-ending threats, they face another significant challenge: The people they’re responsible for protecting and collaborating with are changing the way they communicate — frequently and dramatically.
Can you say Eyjafjallajokull? Here are some unbelievable photos from the volcano.
A distance-learning MSc in health incident command at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) is the first degree-level course specifically for those in the health services who will necessarily during their career find themselves in ultimate charge of decisions that affect how many people live and how many die
Though there is basic training for all emergency services staff in how to deal with the initial stages of a disaster on the ground, the subsequent hours of decision-making in the strategic and tactical management of catastrophes that erupt, by definition, out of nowhere, can make an enormous difference to the scale of the tragedy that ensues.
The course has been designed so academic rigor is informed by students’ personal experience. “We’re looking to tease out the reasoning behind people’s decision-making, both in preparing for a major incident and when one hits,” says Dave Whitmore, tutor on this new program.
Decisions made at the scene can greatly affect the scale of a tragedy. Photograph: Jaime Turner /Rex
See MSc launched in how to take command in a major emergency, by Louise Tickle for The Guardian.
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