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Is your business ready for any disaster? Review this 5-point disaster preparedness checklist

Online Computers

That's why it's important for you to have a disaster preparedness plan (DPP) to help prevent or lessen the damage of a disaster and quickly resume normal business operations. But how can you be sure that your strategy to mitigate disasters will actually work? Assess the risks. Appoint key personnel.

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Inclement weather response demands attention

everbridge

Events such as the devastating incident in Maui serve as grim reminders of the ongoing challenges that persist in disaster preparedness and response. Despite these challenges, there are ways to ensure more uniformity and reliability around disaster response. Increasingly, this issue appears to be unique to the United States.

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Federal Disaster Funding at Play in Fiscal Year 2024 and Government Shutdown Negotiations

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

These include assistance provided under a disaster declaration – such as Individual Assistance, Public Assistance, and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program – as well as Fire Management Assistance Grants and disaster readiness and support activities.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

UNDRR has a recurrent initiative for assessing the state of disaster preparedness around the world, and this results in a document, the Global Assessment Report (GAR), which is issued biennially to coincide with the UN's Global Platform on DRR. The GAR notes that "we all live in communities". GNCSODR 2015.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity. Optimize communication between local and regional governments, first responders, and all staff to avoid unsuccessful emergency notifications. Emergency Management During a Hurricane.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In my role leading the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate School, as well as through other positions, I have dedicated my career to fostering the impact of disaster research in the fields of policy and practice. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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Hurricane Season is in Full Effect ? Are You Prepared?

Fusion Risk Management

With this in mind, it’s becoming increasingly important that organizations look at climate change and natural disaster preparedness not just from an ESG (environmental, social, and governance) perspective but also from an operational resiliency one. Is there anyone else trained up to cover for her in the meantime?