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Hurricane Ian Reveals Continuing Vulnerabilities for Healthcare Facilities

DRI Drive

In 2012, the stories of hospitals fighting to maintain services and keep patients safe during Superstorm Sandy rocked the resilience field. The post Hurricane Ian Reveals Continuing Vulnerabilities for Healthcare Facilities appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Master Your Business’s Resilience with BCP Builder

BCP Builder

This guide will explain why BCP Builder is the ultimate tool for ensuring your organisations resilience, break down its features, and show how it can take your business from unprepared to unstoppable in just one week. Start Building Your Resilience Today Preparedness is the key to surviving and thriving in an unpredictable business landscape.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. 90 programs across 20 agencies is simply too many.

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Supply Chain Continuity: Lessons Learned from the ISG Insolvency

Plan B Consulting

The insolvency of ISG serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in supply chain management, especially in sectors like construction, where margins are thin, and the failure of a single supplier can have far-reaching consequences, this is a lesson we see repeated again and again.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

When I talk to Jacqui Semple, Head of the EPS and Resilience Lead at Angus Council, about incidents and the lessons learned from them, she always corrects me by saying they are ‘lessons identified’. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying.

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Panic buying toilet roll – lesson identified or learned?

Plan B Consulting

When I talk to Jacqui Semple, Head of the EPS and Resilience Lead at Angus Council, about incidents and the lessons learned from them, she always corrects me by saying they are ‘lessons identified’. In the UK fuel crisis of 2012, many of the issues were caused by panic buying.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."