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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Thus, identifying and planning for the risks of potential disasters, such as a pandemic, is the first step to ensuring that communities and regions are prepared for them. In particular, COVID-19 has had disproportionate effects on low-income communities of color and front-line workers.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

Hurricanes pose immense risk to the safety of an organization’s people, the continuity of operations, and the connectivity of communications systems. During a hurricane, critical event managers must be able to communicate crucial safety information to the people for which they are responsible. GET IN TOUCH.

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Cyberrisk Management Tips for Businesses Amid the Russia-Ukraine War

Risk Management Monitor

Have key members of the executive team and incident response team set up a secure but alternate method of communication, such as sharing phone numbers or creating a different off system email address to communicate in the event the business’ systems are not available or not trusted. Check it out here: [link].

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Don’t be left in the dark: Here’s how to create a business continuity plan that works

Online Computers

This entails creating a detailed response plan for each potential risk identified, including the procedures and strategies that need to be put in place to mitigate the impacts of a particular risk. Evaluate your plan after each test to identify areas that need improvement.

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Amplifying School Security With Gunshot Detection Systems

Security Industry Association

The Limitations of Current Response Systems During gun violence incidents, knowing exactly where the incident is happening in real time is critical so that building occupants can quickly get to safety and first responders can rapidly mitigate the threat. He later shot 47 people that he locked inside of an academic hall.

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Chronic Hazards

everbridge

This includes tracking the impact of chronic hazards on operations, reviewing and updating risk assessments, and revising response plans as needed. This plan should include strategies to mitigate the impact of chronic hazards on operations, as well as contingency plans to respond to potential disruptions.

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How to Respond to a Cybersecurity Event

LAN Infotech

Here is a general outline on how to respond to cybersecurity events: Step 1: Retrieve the Incident Response Plan. Hopefully, your IT provider has helped you design an incident response plan–a guide on how to respond to a cybersecurity event. It is possible that we may need to evaluate one system at a time.