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Coordinating Emergency Response and Business Continuity in Manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

This week, I have been working with two manufacturing companies that both supply products to the construction industry. I have worked for several manufacturing organisations and have always had to work hard to ensure that the principles of business continuity work in a manufacturing environment.

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Business Continuity Planning for the Manufacturing Industry

everbridge

Building a Business Continuity Plan for the Manufacturing Industry. For those in the manufacturing industry, critical events threaten financial loss due to unplanned downtime, reduced factory utilization rates, lost revenue, and even employees put at risk. Manufacturing Industry-Specific Dangers. Brand diminishment.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. Security’ involves protection against major threats, such as terrorist activity.

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5 New State “Right to Repair” Laws and What They Mean for the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

The integrity of security and life safety systems would be unnecessarily put at risk if manufactures are forced to make sensitive technical information and other means of compromising security systems broadly available to the public. For this reason, the security industry is a critical stakeholder in related policymaking.

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California Approves Right to Repair Legislation – Security Products Exempt

Security Industry Association

state to adopt “right to repair” legislation broadly applicable to manufacturers of electronic devices. of the Business and Professions Code) : “Alarm system” means “an assembly of equipment and devices arranged to detect a hazard or signal the presence of an off-normal situation.”

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SIA New Member Profile: AUTEC

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member AUTEC provides complete solutions for access control, time management, building automation and hazard management. The company is headquartered in Framersheim, Germany, and distributes its products worldwide through its system integrator and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners.

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Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

MHA Consulting

Enterprise Risk Management is the activity of identifying and mitigating the hazards that threaten an organization (definition from Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , available for free download with registration). ERM also increases a few things.