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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Reality: Field hospitals are usually set up too late to treat the injured and end up providing general medicine and continuity of care. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack.

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Customer Value Story: Prevention is Better Than Cure

LogisManager

The pandemic has disrupted operating models of businesses across the globe. Innovation is no longer a competitive differentiator; hospitals, clinics and pharmacies now rely on the flexibility and capacity of their technology to continue providing services. Customer Value Story: Prevention is Better Than Cure. Introduction.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Risk can be affected by numerous external factors, including natural disasters, global pandemics, raw material prices, increased levels of competition, or changes to current government regulations. A risk analysis is conducted for each identified risk, and security controls are pinpointed to mitigate or avoid these threats.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

MHA Consulting

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest. In consequence, BC is likely to find itself taking a back seat.

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The Colonial Pipeline Hack: Failure in Risk Management

LogisManager

In recent years, these attacks have affected everyone from banks and hospitals to universities and municipalities; almost 2,400 organizations in the United States were victimized last year alone. Unauthorized users having access to corporate devices is an extremely common and preventable cause of negligence. Data Governance.

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What is a “Grey Rhino” and Should I Be Worried About Them?

Plan B Consulting

I was the same, unprepared – I saw the threat and even talked about some of the preparations and plans I had been involved in for the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, but did very little until Covid. We even got the details that the field hospitals deployed on exercises had bloodstocks that you don’t deploy unless you are going to war.