Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

All-Hazards 100

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 100

Security Industry Association

MARCH 29, 2021

The pandemic has depressed revenues for most companies, and in the near term, security budgets will remain constrained. The question, however, shouldn’t always be about cost reduction; it should be about risk reduction. What are your predictions for the security industry in the short and long term?

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Risk Reduction Security Pandemic 52

Erwood Group

MARCH 30, 2023

Some additional key risk reduction steps SVB took early on were: They required a pledge of half of a startup’s shares as collateral (Reduced later to seven percent). The bank’s leadership failed to implement effective risk management policies, which led to poor lending decisions.

Banking 59

Banking Impact Analysis Risk Management Marketing 59

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack. Myth 36: In a biological terrorism attack or pandemic prophylaxis will be effective and efficient. Reality: The problem of disasters is largely a social one.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130