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Preparing Chemical Facilities for Hurricane Season

National Fire Protection Association

One of the plans that can be used is NFPA 1660, Standard for Emergency, Continuity, and Crisis Management: Preparedness, Response and Recovery, which provides guidelines for creating, implementing, assessing, and maintaining effective disaster/emergency management and business continuity programs.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Unfortunately, it’s a tool that most companies neglect.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The Importance of Testing and Exercises In case you missed it, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote an excellent blog last week called, “The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order.” Unfortunately, it’s a tool that most companies neglect.

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National Preparedness Month Highlights the Move from “If” to “When” in Preparedness Planning

Castellan

For 2021, the theme aligns with President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Racial Equality and has strategies that include ways to empower diverse communities that have often been underserved when it comes to disaster preparedness.

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Weird Weather: How to Be Resilient In a Time of Climate Chaos

MHA Consulting

It’s always been important for BC professionals to be aware of the adverse weather that might impact their people, technology, and facilities and to take steps to mitigate them. By the same token, it’s always been important for organizations to regularly review and update their threat assessments and recovery plans.

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RIMS Risk Forum India 2021: Building Resilience As COVID, Cyberrisk Top Business Risks

Risk Management Monitor

They have crisis management plans in place, but they also dig deeper, look farther ahead. Consider that during the pandemic even organizations with thorough business continuity plans struggled. Most organizations do not connect resilience planning with their long-term investment strategy.

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Over time, enterprises, institutions, and organizations will face disasters that could temporarily or permanently disrupt their operations. These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. What is a Business Continuity Plan?

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