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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Secondly, and more importantly, vulnerability, risk, impact and their controlling factors are all trending. I recommend going back to vulnerability and endeavouring to identify, understand and reduce it. Put bluntly, in disaster risk reduction, these days the goalposts are moving faster than the players. What can we do instead?

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Prepare Your Business for Winter Weather During COVID-19

Disaster Safety

Emergency plans for loss of heat, electricity, fuel, and protection system impairments are necessary. DISASTER PLANNING MADE EASY IBHS has developed two easy-to-use tools to help small businesses develop a COVID-tailored business continuity plan and an emergency preparedness plan: OFB-EZ ® and EZ-PREP ®.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

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. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. )

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. Water industry 1995.