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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. million lives, affecting 4.2 Floods and storms were the most prevalent events.”.

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Has the firefighting stopped? The effect of COVID-19 on on-call engineers by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

According to our data, the number of critical incidents grew by 19% from 2019-2020. Comparing the hours worked in the first 12 months of the pandemic (March 2020-March 2021) to the preceding 12 months (March 2019-March 2020), we can see that more than a third of PagerDuty users worked far less consistent schedules in 2020 than in 2019.

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PagerDuty’s Engineering Management Handbook for Healthier Teams and Services by Hannah Culver

PagerDuty

Our report findings show that incidents increased for our customers by about 19% from 2019-2020. Establishing a better understanding of the alerts teams receive can help ease the load of on-call teams. This prepares teams in the event of a real failure, and can provide learning opportunities to mitigate this failure entirely.

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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?

Plan B Consulting

In my research, I came across this article from 2019, “Hackers Could Kill More People Than a Nuclear Weapon” by Jeremy Straub, published at livescience.com. On the night of 11th September, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm.

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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?

Plan B Consulting

In my research, I came across this article from 2019, “Hackers Could Kill More People Than a Nuclear Weapon” by Jeremy Straub, published at livescience.com. On the night of 11th September, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm.

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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?

Plan B Consulting

In my research, I came across this article from 2019, “Hackers Could Kill More People Than a Nuclear Weapon” by Jeremy Straub, published at livescience.com. On the night of 11th September, paramedics in Düsseldorf, Germany, were alerted to the deteriorating condition of a 78-year-old woman suffering from an aortic aneurysm.