Disaster Preparedness

JULY 1, 2020

A Pandemic (sorry but this one COVID-19 Isn’t it – I’ll explain why). Yes, a pandemic scares me. Has your company made any changes or implemented any pandemic planning based on the Coronavirus? Ultimately the reason why I said this isn’t the pandemic I fear is due to the low mortality rate.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Then came the game-changer that was the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Those attacks, coupled with the 2008 financial meltdown, exposed the limits of an approach that was limited to protecting a handful of essential business processes.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Much of this change was propelled by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.) However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A year after canceling the 2020 race because of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Road Runners (NYRR), the nonprofit organization that puts on the TCS New York City Marathon, will return to commemorate the race’s 50th running. Metellus first joined NYRR in 2001 as an event manager and has served in a variety of leadership roles since then.

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National Fire Protection Association

JUNE 23, 2023

To reinforce this point, she showed two images of the Hoover Damn side by side, one in 2001 and another in 2018; the draught’s impact on available water is sizeable. Dubay said that the way we work has shifted and accelerated since the pandemic hit – when it did, we all reconfigured how we work.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If anyone understands exactly what that means when a disaster forever changes how we define “business as usual,” it’s Larry Knafo, former New York City Deputy CIO during the September 11 , 2001 attacks. His experiences are among the many that organizations can draw from in our “new normal” in this post-pandemic world.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

OCTOBER 23, 2023

So many questions… In September 2001, I was president of the new Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, and that was my main priority, along with the Children’s Health Fund. Could this have been prevented? What if the terrorists had deployed bio-weapons, chemicals, or nukes?

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