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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

A recent blog post highlights resources for facility managers. For health care providers: New criteria require health care providers to have extensive plans in place for numerous types of events including hurricanes as part of an emergency preparedness rule passed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November 2017.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

For facility managers and business owners: For answers to bigger emergency planning challenges and questions, NFPA 1600®, Standard on Continuity, Emergency, and Crisis Management, is a vital guide for the development, implementation, assessment, and maintenance of disaster/emergency management and continuity of operations programs.

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5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know

Online Computers

For instance, the city had to spend $3 million on emergency IT and crisis management intervention alone. They quickly moved their client servers to a remote data center, where continual backups were already stored. The 2017 hurricane that nearly drowned a Texas marketing agency.