Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The bureaucratic approach Emphasis is quite rightly placed on mitigating these impacts and preparing to adapt our lives and livelihoods to climate change. But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. In the UK, the term 'disaster' is not used: 'major incident' is preferred.

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Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation 231

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. Then came the game-changer that was the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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BCM Business Continuity Resilience Outage 105

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2020

Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should we panic? In some years it is estimated that this can rise to over 10,000 deaths, which estimated over 13,000 deaths resulting from flu in 2008-09’. I also think in the background, it might be worth dusting off your pandemic plan and checking whether it needs updating.

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Pandemic Travel Communications Business Continuity 52

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2020

Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should we panic? In some years it is estimated that this can rise to over 10,000 deaths, which estimated over 13,000 deaths resulting from flu in 2008-09’. I also think in the background, it might be worth dusting off your pandemic plan and checking whether it needs updating.

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Pandemic Travel Communications Business Continuity 52

Security Industry Association

JUNE 14, 2021

I’ve had the honor of being the chief security officer for Boeing since 2008, so my list of challenging events is fairly long. There were several times throughout the pandemic where I had to do a personal “gut-check” and recalibrate my thought process and outlook to prepare for the long-game.

Education 52

Education Disaster Preparedness Security Pandemic 52

LogisManager

MAY 9, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Failures in Risk Management: Why ERM vs GRC By Steven Minsky | May 5, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by regulators and reminded us of the recession associated with Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual Bank in 2008. This mitigated the risk of losing money if the collection agency went bankrupt.

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Banking Risk Management Management Corporate Governance 98

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

I was the same, unprepared – I saw the threat and even talked about some of the preparations and plans I had been involved in for the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, but did very little until Covid. The earlier we mitigate the effects of the Grey Rhino, the less impact they will have. Three weeks later, we were all locked down.

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Hospitality Mitigation Internet Business Continuity 52