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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. The 2023 NRR is clear and concise.

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Growth in Codes and Standards is Essential to Safety within Cannabis Oil Extraction Facilities

National Fire Protection Association

Facilities of all shapes and sizes began popping up in states where cannabis was legalized to be manufactured. RELATED • Listen to an NFPA podcast about regulating the cannabis industry • Read, “The New Face of Pot,” published in the July/August 2018 NFPA Journal What does the NEC say?

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Adapt or Fail: Climate Change Resilience for Organizations  

everbridge

According to research conducted by Verdantix , “more than half of organizations have less than $1 million to respond to catastrophic events, and 41% of participants stated that they had no budget at all for catastrophic events” (Navigating Climate Threats and Proactive Mechanisms to Achieve Business Climate Resilience, November 2022).

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs. For all other bills (i.e.

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How to Prevent Third-Party Vendor Data Breaches

Reciprocity

According to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 62 percent of all data breaches happen via third-party vendors. The Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma’s third-party cloud storage provider , Elekta, identified odd behavior on its network in 2021. What Do You Do if You Have a Third-Party Data Breach?

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The Playbook for Resilient Operations in Financial Services – March 2022 and Beyond

Fusion Risk Management

Building on our 2021 roundtables where we examined how firms are revisiting their approaches to operational resilience , this March we gathered a community of executive leaders in financial services to examine how firms are putting that thought into practice and adapting their culture, processes, and systems to build a more resilient tomorrow. .

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Korkmaz 2021. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200.