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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

Hurricane preparedness considerations for hospitals include the same requirements as corporate and government entities. Evaluate emergency response plans to verify they are flexible and scalable enough to accommodate contingencies. Hurricane Preparedness on Campus.

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Over time, enterprises, institutions, and organizations will face disasters that could temporarily or permanently disrupt their operations. These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. What Is A Disaster Recovery Plan?

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National Preparedness Month Highlights the Move from “If” to “When” in Preparedness Planning

Castellan

According to the 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report , there are the top five events that led to business continuity response and recovery plan initiation in 2020: Pandemic/disease: 79% Power outages: 49% Hurricanes: 38% Fire/wildfires: 35% Cyber-attacks: 29%.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

The COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to suspend their IT/disaster recovery (DR) testing programs, but it is important to keep up with such testing. “You Still Need to Drill: IT/DR Testing Is as Important as Ever.”

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

The COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to suspend their IT/disaster recovery (DR) testing programs, but it is important to keep up with such testing. “You Still Need to Drill: IT/DR Testing Is as Important as Ever.”