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SIA New Member Profile: IXP Corporation

Security Industry Association

Our professional services team provides consulting services to local government agencies, universities and colleges, hospitals and health care systems and private commercial industry clients on business continuity planning, emergency management and public safety technology, governance and operations.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans.