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Prepare Your Business for Winter Weather During COVID-19

Disaster Safety

. Due to COVID-19, businesses may not be operating at a normal capacity. Some may still be vacant, while others are operating at a reduced capacity or with strict COVID protocols. When reviewing/creating your plans, be sure to consider the following: There are new types of risks for employees who are working remotely.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.