CCEM Strategies

MAY 30, 2018

Ensuring business continuity during an emergency is simply good business. Business continuity planning (BCP) is a critical component of emergency preparedness. In other words, BCP is an integral component of a good business strategy and also makes good business sense.

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CCEM Strategies

JULY 5, 2023

Emergency management responsibilities for business and critical infrastructure owners A large portion of emergency management responsibility falls on business owners—including critical infrastructure owners. Need help developing your plan or training program? Contact us today and let’s get the conversation started.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

Here are four (4) steps your community can take: Review and enhance emergency plans Develop readiness with training and practice Establish and strengthen partnerships Remain vigilant by monitoring hazards and risks Review and Enhance Your Emergency Plans Your community already has emergency plans.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

Public outcry often follows government failures to adequately prepare for known risks, resulting in mass casualty events. A example of this is the recommendation following the King’s Cross Fire of November 1987, where 31 people perished, highlighting the hampered emergency services response due to ineffective underground communication.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2023

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. OSHA will expect no less.

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Castellan

AUGUST 2, 2022

Half of the respondents to the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) 2022 Extreme Weather and Climate Report say their organization has experienced delays or disruptions acquiring key products because of the impact of climate-related events on the supply chain. Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. Take advantage of this by networking through professional organizations and at BCM events. BCM consultancy websites.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

There are three steps every organization should take ahead of time to ensure it can communicate effectively during an event: Prepare scripts for the four or five negative events that are most likely to happen. Identify and train the right spokespeople to comment to the media, speak on camera, and post to social media about the event.

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

The risk of flooding tends to change based on the season as it can be caused by snow melt, sudden and aggressive rain storms, rain on snow events, or debris in waterways causing overtopping of banks or sudden redirection of the waterway. Review the plans and think about how flooding might impact your community.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

So, it’s important your emergency and continuity management program addresses summer hazards. Have alternatives in the event of utility outages All businesses and organizations are reliant on utilities. This makes them highly vulnerable in the event of utility outages.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories.

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CCEM Strategies

MARCH 17, 2023

Provincial and local authorities are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their regions and together, they work to create and test emergency plans that will ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, long before an incident occurs.

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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? Case study – Courier company plans verified by exercises. We were rolling out business continuity plans for their parcel operation.

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CCEM Strategies

MARCH 27, 2018

Now that the Canadian government has launched Alert Ready - Canada’s National Public Alerting System, it’s important to consider how this affects your business’ emergency plans , and how to modify them moving forward. Now that you have the steps to re-evaluate your existing emergency plans, it’s time to put them to the test!

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CCEM Strategies

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

joint reinforcements) be incorporated to prevent a collapse in the event of an earthquake. unreinforced brick and/or masonry) that haven’t been retrofitted for ductility won’t perform as well in the event of an earthquake. Contact us for customized business continuity and emergency management planning.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Therefore, for today’s bulletin, I will be sharing some of the highlights and my thoughts on the event. The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. For me, it felt very much like a ‘grown ups’ event.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 13, 2018

Being prepared involves developing, regularly updating, and training on both your emergency plan and the business continuity plan. It’s crucial to your ability to continue providing service, reducing financial impacts and mitigating reputational damage after an emergency event occurs.

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

DEVELOP COVID-TAILORED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR WINTER WEATHER. Before severe winter weather strikes, prepare by developing a COVID-tailored business continuity plan and an emergency preparedness plan that accounts for the variables of the pandemic.

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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? Case study – Courier company plans verified by exercises When writing this bulletin, I was reminded of some work we did for a courier company.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

Therefore, for today’s bulletin, I will be sharing some of the highlights and my thoughts on the event. The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. For me, it felt very much like a ‘grown ups’ event.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them. Other papers have put forward the idea that people base their experience of an event on the most intense part and how it ended, for both good and bad experiences, rather than evaluate the event as a whole.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans.

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Crisis Management Management Banking Business Continuity 40

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Both events reminded me of the importance of learning from an event. By this I mean implementing changes into ways of working and procedures to ensure that the event does not happen again or that the response is improved. This means people are not able to take an objective look at the events.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Both events reminded me of the importance of learning from an event. By this I mean implementing changes into ways of working and procedures to ensure that the event does not happen again or that the response is improved. This means people are not able to take an objective look at the events.

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Emergency Planning Hospitality Communications Authorization 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them. Other papers have put forward the idea that people base their experience of an event on the most intense part and how it ended, for both good and bad experiences, rather than evaluate the event as a whole.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 1: Disasters are truly exceptional events. Reality: They are a normal part of daily life and in very many cases are repetitive events. Myth 47: Business continuity management only applies to the private sector. Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises. It is not so.

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CCEM Strategies

JULY 24, 2018

But what is CI, and how can it endure and function during, and after an emergency event? This is because, long before an incident occurs, CI operators work with governments to create and test emergency plans to ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, to deal with unforeseen disruptions.

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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

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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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. Here are a few things to consider when preparing for earthquakes in your emergency management and business continuity plans: 1.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

What does that mean to us business continuity people? The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. How do you deal with anniversaries of events each year?

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

What does that mean to us business continuity people? The planning for large scale events and their emergency planning has come a long way since Hillsborough, both from a police prospective and an event planning prospective. How do you deal with anniversaries of events each year?

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

I think these three events represent ‘traditional’ incidents that have taken place over the past few years. 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.

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