Wed.Nov 27, 2024

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Legal Issues for Volunteers Responding to Disasters

Disaster Zone Podcast

Elizabeth Van Nostrand is an associate professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy at the Temple University College of Public Health. Van Nostrand is an expert in legal epidemiology—the study and application of law as an intervention to prevent disease and injury. She is the co-author of three public health emergency law bench books for health departments in the District of Columbia, Louisiana and Pennsylvania.

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Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die?

Recovery Diva

From the Wash Post: The decisions that cost some lives and saved others during Helene’s wrath. Six workers, most of whom were Latino, died after showing up for work at a factory in Tennessee. A mile down the road, 70 people stuck at a hospital were rescued from the roof. “The flooding in the small rural town of Erwin on Sept. 27 that stemmed from Hurricane Helene would later be deemed the result of a 5,000-year event.

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Empowering Growth and Community: PagerDuty Presents Arraychella 2024 by Carmel Ulbrick

PagerDuty

PagerDuty recently hosted our second annual Arraychella conference in Atlanta. The multi-day professional development event empowered participants to focus on career growth, skill development, and connection-building while aligning with key company objectives and addressing important themes from our recent employee engagement survey. The event was crafted to offer space for networking and strategic conversations about how Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) support PagerDuty’s business objectives ar

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Exploring Key Advantages of Business Continuity Plan

BryghtPath

Explore the compelling advantages of business continuity plans and learn how a robust plan can help safeguard your business from a variety of unexpected events. The post Exploring Key Advantages of Business Continuity Plan appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity

The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity is a step-by-step resource for developing an effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) program and navigating challenges. Whether building from scratch or enhancing a plan, this guide offers practical tools, expert advice, and strategies to ensure resilience. What You’ll Learn: Key elements of BCM and resiliency Steps to build and test your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Conducting risk assessments and BIAs Integrating cybersecurity into p

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SIA New Member Profile: Watchful

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Watchful works to empower security teams to build trust, perform confidently and deliver exceptional results to their clients. The company is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, and serves customers across New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Canada. SIA spoke with Joshua Parsons, founder and CEO of Watchful, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.