Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

It can signify a means of diversifying assets so as to optimise the way they can be used to exploit people, for example, by shifting manufacturing production to places where wages can most easily be suppressed. The term has many different meanings.

Natural Hazard 199

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Entertainment Transportation 199

Emergency Planning

MARCH 11, 2020

difficulties associated with procuring reliable, intelligible information being in the wrong place at the wrong time general uncertainty in the evolution of the epidemic These, then, are the possible building blocks of scenarios that could be used for future planning.

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Pandemic Tourism Hospitality Transportation 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Goods and services imported into a country with foreign funding tend to benefit the manufacturers and suppliers. Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises. Myth 53: Aid always benefits the recipients, not the donors. Reality: There are many cases in which the beneficiaries include the donors.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business leaders typically develop emergency plans for dealing with ransomware attackers who only want ransoms paid—which usually means either paying the ransom or designing storage so that data can quickly be replaced. What to Know About Hacktivists, How They’re Evolving, and What You Can Do About It.

Hospitality 72

Hospitality Government Emergency Planning Publishing 72

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. As Fukushima in Japan was a major industrial manufacturing area, there was a ripple effect across the world as many components needed in manufacturing were very quickly unavailable.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Scenario Planning Pandemic Travel 52

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. As Fukushima in Japan was a major industrial manufacturing area, there was a ripple effect across the world as many components needed in manufacturing were very quickly unavailable.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Scenario Planning Pandemic Travel 52

Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Climate change can make regional weather conditions more erratic, resulting in sudden rises in sea levels, droughts or other changes that businesses with conventional emergency plans might not be prepared for. Facilities, operations and management need to adapt to their environments and protect against location specific hazards.

Hazard 40

Hazard Manufacturing Disaster Recovery Transportation 40

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. Since the 1990s, we have had a series of different threats which have been the main threats of the moment.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery 40

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. Since the 1990s, we have had a series of different threats which have been the main threats of the moment.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Outage Fashion Business Recovery 40

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

Water industry 1995 The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. During the interview, they talked about telemetry. What can we do to protect our organisation ?

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Internet Vulnerability Malware Emergency Planning 40

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this.

Internet 40

Internet Vulnerability Business Continuity Malware 40

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

Resilience 244

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8%

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Media 174