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

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

It lacks the spatial dimension of the 1960s work of the geographers Torsten Hägerstrand (1968) and his colleagues, but it has all the other components. susceptible t o fads and fashions instead of true paradigms? Sadly, a follow-the-herd mentality all too easily develops among researchers. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988.

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Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

MHA Consulting

Enterprise Risk Management is the activity of identifying and mitigating the hazards that threaten an organization (definition from Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , available for free download with registration). ERM provides a framework for doing this in a systematic, results-oriented fashion.

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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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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

The return of the mullet What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet. Flared trousers seem to come and go quite regularly.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet. Like all good fashion trends, there are always people who cling to past trends, long after they have become unfashionable.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

For small businesses, it is common to have just one all-encompassing plan. One important thing to know is that the Business Continuity Plan should contain all the information required to implement the processes and strategies to perform the business functions contained in the plan.