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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

Print 0 46 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA At the time of writing this, the UK Government has just released the 2023 edition of the National Risk Register (NRR, HM Government 2023). In this, the UK Government is honouring its promise to promote greater transparency in risk assessment.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments where organizations and countries have not used available methods of risk assessment, and as a result, “…acting individually and through collective bodies, succeed neither in effective policy nor practice in reducing vulnerability of the built environment.” [p.

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Risk Management Process- Part 3a: Risk Assessment and Risk Identification

Zerto

Risk assessment is a key component of the risk management process that identifies and evaluates all potential risks faced by an organization. This includes risks to strategy, finances, compliance, governance, and operations. It identifies threats and vulnerabilities, potential areas of impact, and the likelihood of disruptive events.

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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

Source: Government of Canada January 2024 – Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) warns of extreme cold that could last for several days, with temperatures reaching as low as –50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) with wind chill. Especially vulnerable populations. The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort.

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How Data Fuels Modern Fire Safety Operations—and Keeps Communities Safe

Pure Storage

The group also noted that the establishment of more automated data capture and the proliferation of data from all aspects of the fire service is necessary.”³ can use technology and science “to support the needs of today’s wildland firefighters and vulnerable communities nationwide.”

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability.