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Is your business ready for any disaster? Review this 5-point disaster preparedness checklist

Online Computers

That's why it's important for you to have a disaster preparedness plan (DPP) to help prevent or lessen the damage of a disaster and quickly resume normal business operations. But how can you be sure that your strategy to mitigate disasters will actually work?

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Preparing Chemical Facilities for Hurricane Season

National Fire Protection Association

One of the plans that can be used is NFPA 1660, Standard for Emergency, Continuity, and Crisis Management: Preparedness, Response and Recovery, which provides guidelines for creating, implementing, assessing, and maintaining effective disaster/emergency management and business continuity programs.

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Wildfire Preparedness and Emergency Management

Business Resilience Decoded

That means training and exercises will revolve around evaluating the disaster and making decisions as quickly as possible. From an emergency management standpoint, the jurisdiction wherever the fire originates is responsible for mitigating the fire. Teams should be ready to step in and help a smaller jurisdiction if asked.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

An integrated critical event management (CEM) platform can help crisis management teams successfully communicate with their people during a severe weather event. A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity.

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Processes, steps, and guidelines in a business continuity plan answer one question: “How businesses can continue offering acceptable service levels when disaster strikes.” References to Crisis Management and Emergency Response plans. The purpose and scope of the BCP. A schedule defining reviews, tests of the plan.

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National Preparedness Month Highlights the Move from “If” to “When” in Preparedness Planning

Castellan

For 2021, the theme aligns with President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Racial Equality and has strategies that include ways to empower diverse communities that have often been underserved when it comes to disaster preparedness. Find all of our free templates in our Resource Library.

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RIMS Risk Forum India 2021: Building Resilience As COVID, Cyberrisk Top Business Risks

Risk Management Monitor

Marsh and RIMS explained these further, defining key pillars that have set successful businesses apart, and potentially also offering considerations for other organizations to develop more mature risk management programs: Anticipation: Resilient companies expect the unexpected. Doing so increases the ability to develop effective responses.