article thumbnail

Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945.

article thumbnail

Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

MHA Consulting

Enterprise Risk Management is the activity of identifying and mitigating the hazards that threaten an organization (definition from Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , available for free download with registration). ERM is all about reducing. It all comes down to details.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A higher standard of ‘duty of care’ for business travel

everbridge

We pull all this information together and provide a recommendation on the appropriate level of security for that individual. We put all of this under a broad description of what we call “secure journey management” and there are a number of different services that we provide as part of that. We have several ways of approaching this.

Travel 52
article thumbnail

Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

For small businesses, it is common to have just one all-encompassing plan. One important thing to know is that the Business Continuity Plan should contain all the information required to implement the processes and strategies to perform the business functions contained in the plan. Plan Activation. Recovery Team Activation.