Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? The first challenge is to understand the behaviour of an emerging disease caused by a new variant of a virus. Viral pandemics can have impacts that are as significant in the socio-economic field as they are in epidemiology and viral medicine.

Pandemic 176

Pandemic Hospitality Logistics Authorization 176

Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 130

Fusion Risk Management

OCTOBER 12, 2023

These events – whether civil or political unrest, trade disputes, economic sanctions, pandemics, or natural disasters – can have far-reaching implications on an organization’s employees, business operations, vendors and supply chain, and customers.

Resilience 59

Resilience Authorization Communications Continuity Planning 59

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. Interestingly, since the first edition in 2008, pandemics have been regarded as the leading risk in terms of their probability of occurrence and seriousness of consequences. These are rather ambiguous bodies.

Management 231

Management Emergency Planning All-Hazards Transportation 231

Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

OUR TAKE: Authors John Rittinghouse and James F. Book Title: Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery: Everything You Need to Know to Design a Great Exercise. OUR TAKE: Author Regina Phelps is a widely renowned expert in the fields of crisis management, exercise design, and continuity and pandemic planning.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Management Crisis Management Business Continuity 98

FS-ISAC

JUNE 30, 2022

But the recent directive by India’s Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT-IN, made headlines around the world for its requirement that firms disclose cyber incidents within just six hours. Singapore: Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has implemented incident reporting requirements of 14 days.

Response Plan 52

Response Plan All-Hazards Cybersecurity Mitigation 52

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

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 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130