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Coordinating Emergency Response and Business Continuity in Manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

Charlie discusses the different emergency response and business continuity issues to consider after an incident, and how both teams can communicate efficiently. This week, I have been working with two manufacturing companies that both supply products to the construction industry.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. A ‘major incident’ is an adverse impact that requires immediate attention from emergency services and a switch from normal to emergency working patterns. Plans should be networked.

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5 New State “Right to Repair” Laws and What They Mean for the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

The integrity of security and life safety systems would be unnecessarily put at risk if manufactures are forced to make sensitive technical information and other means of compromising security systems broadly available to the public. For this reason, the security industry is a critical stakeholder in related policymaking.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Reality: Collapsing buildings are responsible for the majority of deaths in seismic disasters. 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. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of the industry (non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing, public sector, etc.), This statement is quite a mouthful, but it boils down to the identification of organizational threats, management of their impacts, and building response strategies to protect critical resources.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity should be one of the top priorities for all organization leaders, and response plans should be implemented in organizations of all sizes. Regardless of the industry (non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing, public sector, etc.), ARTICLE SECTIONS. 1 – Introduction to BCP.