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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. They invest large sums but gain only small reductions in exposure. Simply put, successful risk management requires centralized risk mitigation leadership.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. A related but higher level concept is that of risk mitigation strategies.

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A Guide to Completing an Internal Audit for Compliance Management

Reciprocity

Regular internal audits help your organization to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes. Are they effective in risk reduction? In addition, you should understand how and why an activity happens or operates. The benefits of an internal audit are plenty.

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COVID, Meet Cognitive Bias. CB, Meet COVID. You Two Have Much to Talk About!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Risk Management should not be political. In reality, controlling for custody cases and gang activity, the chances of your child being abducted are infinitesimally small. Finally, let’s start to take a risk management approach. It’s called Risk Management not Risk Elimination.

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Protecting Your Business From Interruption: The Value of Business Continuity Management

Castellan

Many of these protections are focused on isolated risks; for example, if a company has a critical product that has to be shipped no matter what – they may choose to store that product in two locations, thereby protecting it.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management? Under such circumstances, disaster risk management is vitally important, especially as one is dealing with a medical emergency and a social, economic and psychological one. We can regard Covid-19 as a 'wave-disaster'.

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