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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

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. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

But in our current period of an ever-expanding set of global threats, most organizations would benefit from developing a system for actively monitoring potential threats to their operations and assets. Threats related to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, heat waves, and pandemics.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Top 10 BCM Resources All that being said, here are my top 10 resources to help you become a ninja-level BCM practitioner: 1. Talks about the need for business to be prepared for three types of hazards, natural, human-caused, and technology-related.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Whereas it is not possible to stop earthquakes, it is possible to construct anti-seismic buildings and to organize human activities in such a way as to minimize the risk of death. Activism is much more common than fatalism (this is the so-called "therapeutic community"). Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

To minimize disruption from third-party attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware, and nation-state threats, regulators around the world are implementing landmark incident reporting standards. Roles and responsibilities of the incident response team and all other teams involved. T he Shortest Reporting Time frame Yet.

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Book Review: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina

Recovery Diva

Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Chapter 3 situates Katrina within post-colonial time highlighting how the physical geography of New Orleans was shaped through industrial activity that supported New Orleans historic role as a critical United States seaport. Authors: Kai Erikson, William R.

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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.

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