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Evaluating the Safety, Hazards, and Risks in Your Organization’s Physical Environments

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 144: Evaluating the Safety, Hazards, and Risks in Your Organization’s Physical Environments When was the last time you evaluated the threats to your physical environment? Things like graffiti, vandalism, or even cracked sidewalks or unkempt landscaping can welcome unwanted activity near your facility.

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Chronic Hazards

everbridge

Four steps for organizations to proactively address chronic hazards Global climate change continues to have a profound impact on businesses worldwide, with chronic hazards such as flooding, wildfires, and extreme weather conditions posing a significant risk to industries.

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Hot Work: More than Welding, Cutting, and Burning

National Fire Protection Association

Hot work continues to be one of the most significant industrial hazards facing the world. This can include activities such as welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, grinding, and other similar processes that generate heat and sparks. What are the associated hot work fire hazards? What are methods to minimize fire hazards?

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

Emergency Planning

An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H.

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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

The Business Continuity Management System framework is the system that stitches activities together. When you are evaluating the internal and external issues (Clause 4.1 of ISO 22301:2012) these can be sourced (in part) from the risk register and Enterprise Risk Management and evaluated with a Business Continuity Management lens.

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NFPA Webinar, Other Resources Aim to Help Professionals Gather Knowledge to Improve Electrical Safety in the Workplace

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA 70E®, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace®, requires that all employers implement and document an overall ESP that directs activity appropriate to the risk associated with electrical hazards. This includes information on training qualified persons, as well as identifying and eliminating electrical hazards.

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

CI preparedness CI owners and operators play a crucial role in response activities and participate in government planning committees and pre-incident coordination. But for CI, evaluating and prioritizing is universally based on several factors, as illustrated below.