Emergency Planning

AUGUST 3, 2023

This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. The 2023 NRR is clear and concise.

All-Hazards 204

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Government 204

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. Standardised,"all hazards" emergency planning methodology applied at all levels.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 130

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

Civil Emergency 130

Civil Emergency Pandemic All-Hazards Logistics 130

Security Industry Association

JUNE 21, 2021

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Swan Island Networks is a software-as-a-service company that delivers trusted situational awareness and threat intelligence services. SIA spoke with Swan Island Networks CEO Pete O’Dell about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Alert Hazard Authorization 52

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. In Haiti, a third of the population lacks secure access to food. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 27, 2017

Risk Managers, Business Continuity planners and Security personnel take note: this climate will impact your business. The 2008 hotel attacks in Mumbai would have been difficult if not impossible without technology. ​ A quick scan of the headlines will confirm that in the US (and elsewhere) things are getting ugly. Media presence?

Risk Management 130

Risk Management Management Internet All-Hazards 130