Plan B Consulting

JULY 23, 2021

In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about why determining an accurate location during an emergency is important, and how you can incorporate this into your emergency plan. At the moment, a clear methodology of describing the location of an incident hasn’t been created.

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 5, 2019

Its title is "My first article". The - definite article; cat - subject and common noun; sat - verb; on - preposition; the - definite article; mat - object and common noun; no clauses or sub-clauses. By contrast, the simpler we make English, the better it is. There is an amusing reflection by J.B.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 27, 2020

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 7(1), Article no. Indian Sociological Bulletin 4: 215-227. Gaillard, J-C. Gomez 2015. Post-disaster research: is there gold worth the rush? 120, 1-6.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business leaders typically develop emergency plans for dealing with ransomware attackers who only want ransoms paid—which usually means either paying the ransom or designing storage so that data can quickly be replaced. Like this article and want to read more? Your current ransomware strategy probably isn’t enough.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

The reason for mentioning this example is part of my response to an article that appeared in Times Higher Education (THE 2019). However, there was a need for a journal that competed well, that outclassed its competitors in terms of being a reliable, authoritative source of knowledge.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

Information has been given, but only when prompted by external events, such as The Times article and other articles on the data release. I noticed in a ZDNet article that they are alleging that SEPA’s data has been leaked by the cybercriminal group behind Conti ransomware. The article can be read here.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2019

To learn from other’s experiences and to keep yourself up-to-date, you have to constantly read articles, attend conferences and listen to presentations and webinars. Lesson 4 – I can understand that BA may not have their own staff at the airport immediately after the event and they have to rely on the airport’s emergency plans.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

As an example, our MHA Consulting site is full of articles and ebooks that set forth the same principles and practices we use in working with our Fortune 500 clients, all available for free to anyone who wants them.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

Information has been given, but only when prompted by external events, such as The Times article and other articles on the data release. For more information click here Update 19th January 2021 I noticed in a ZDNet article that they are alleging that SEPA’s data has been leaked by the cybercriminal group behind Conti ransomware.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2019

To learn from other’s experiences and to keep yourself up-to-date, you have to constantly read articles, attend conferences and listen to presentations and webinars. Lesson 4 – I can understand that BA may not have their own staff at the airport immediately after the event and they have to rely on the airport’s emergency plans.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , Article 101163 Marulanda, M.C., Natural hazard impacts on industry and critical infrastructure: natech risk drivers and risk management performance indicators. Cardona and A.H. Barbat 2010. Revealing the socioeconomic impact of small disasters in Colombia using the DesInventar database.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The UK Official Secrets Act (1989) defines vaguely what information is protected but is quite clear about the consequences of sharing such information: "the person into whose possession the information, document or article has come is guilty of an offence if he discloses it without lawful authority knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that (..)

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. The Business Continuity Institute seem to have impressed the term, and many of my rivals on the business continuity consultancy side have put resilience in their business name.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The NCSC was heavily pushing incident management, exercising, and developing plans. What I thought was interesting was that the cyber industry, in terms of incident response, seems to be where the emergency planning profession was 20 years ago.

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The maintenance recommendations highlighted in this article apply to buildings located north of the 32°F line designated on the map. DEVELOP COVID-TAILORED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR WINTER WEATHER. Emergency plans for loss of heat, electricity, fuel, and protection system impairments are necessary.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for.

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CCEM Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this second article in our three-part series for “Preparing Coastal Businesses for the Big 3,” we focus on what your business needs to do to effectively and efficiently prepare for an earthquake. In the coastal state of California, the cost of earthquakes equates to over $60 billion in losses since 1971.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2020

This thought was also in my mind after the Emergency Planning Society’s weekly email highlighted a report by the UK Government’s Public Accounts Committee on their response to COVID-19. One of the subjects we got talking about was the scope of incidents that business continuity is designed to deal with.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2020

This thought was also in my mind after the Emergency Planning Society’s weekly email highlighted a report by the UK Government’s Public Accounts Committee on their response to COVID-19. One of the subjects we got talking about was the scope of incidents that business continuity is designed to deal with.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. Therefore, when we search for scenarios, we can look at ‘traditional’ incidents related to our location that may affect our organisation.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I had the task, as the Emergency Planning Manager, to conduct a debrief of a multi-agency water contamination exercise involving the Local CCDC (doctor responsible for outbreaks in the local area), the Local Authority, a hospital and various people from Anglian Water. It is in use in the UK by many in the emergency planning fraternity.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

I did my PhD in Emergency Planning and Disaster Management at the University of Hertfordshire; therefore, it is the latest in a long line of universities that caught my eye. This week I wanted to share my thoughts and alert you to the hidden costs of ransomware attacks.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle. Not all things sent in the post are designed to harm, sometimes they are just plain stupid.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Why did they not anticipate this as a possibility and put in place a contingency plan, which they could have on the shelf ready for the moment if it was needed?

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2021

When I first started as an Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water in 1995, one of my first tasks was to put together an incident management room. This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This room was set up at Graham’s WaterWorks about 5 miles away from the company’s headquarters.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

I attended the Emergency Planning Society weekly huddle, which is an opportunity for those responding to coronavirus to express their thoughts and ideas and support one another. People on the call were saying that they were beginning to move from the ‘response’ phase to the ‘recovery’ phase of the incident.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

For example, in the public sector, Scotland Emergency Planning Units have renamed themselves as ‘Resilience’ and I have seen a number of resilience roles within the banking sector. Whilst I believe resilience is the answer to some issues, I do not think it is the sole answer to the future of business continuity.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A while ago I was the Emergency Planning Manager for a large company, as they had many international travellers, travelling to all parts of the world. Part of my role was to make sure that we were ready to respond if staff were kidnapped.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

The two I know of, although a little old, are those produced by the Emergency Planning Society and Skills for Justice. Instead of assessing the team, which is effectively half of the people in the team, if we look at individual competencies, we can ensure that all members of the team are up to the required standard.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

When I started in emergency planning in the water industry, Anglian Water, who I was working for at the time, had no plans for dealing with a lack of water, contaminated water and sewage flooding incidents.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 17, 2015

Emergency plans tend to cater for the needs of the emergency and other responding services, rather than explicitly addressing the needs and priorities of the people involved”. Procedures tend to focus too much on incidents, rather than on individuals, and on processes rather than people.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. Since the 1990s, we have had a series of different threats which have been the main threats of the moment.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 22, 2013

I suspect the Boston Marathon had its’ own multi-agency emergency plan, with the relevant responders and incident managers, on site ready to respond to any incident and implement the plan. About 36 hours into the Texas incident, the Texas Governor turned up and was the first official to manage information on the incident.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

One of my jobs as Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, as soon as a major incident occurred, was to find staff members to fill all the shifts at the incident room. Secondly if staff work long hours, they may suffer fatigue, make poor decisions and not be actually contributing to the recovery.

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