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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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The Intersection of Logistics and Crisis Management

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 82: The Intersection of Logistics and Crisis Management Vanessa is joined by logistics expert Fred Cartwright, business development manager with Haversack, for a talk about the crisis facing the global supply chain. There’s a worldwide shortage of semiconductors, space in U.S-bound

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The Intersection of Logistics and Crisis Management

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 82: The Intersection of Logistics and Crisis Management Vanessa is joined by logistics expert Fred Cartwright, business development manager with Haversack, for a talk about the crisis facing the global supply chain. There’s a worldwide shortage of semiconductors, space in U.S-bound

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The Intersection of Logistics and Crisis Management

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 82: The Intersection of Logistics and Crisis Management Vanessa is joined by logistics expert Fred Cartwright, business development manager with Haversack, for a talk about the crisis facing the global supply chain. There’s a worldwide shortage of semiconductors, space in U.S-bound

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USPS Faces Another Crisis Communications Crunch

Bernstein Crisis Management

Now, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has the unenviable task of explaining the agency’s latest plan; in short, to get ahead of a projected $160 billion deficit over the next decade by using less air transport and relying on its significant ground network instead. We’ll continue to monitor and report. Erik Bernstein.

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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. The Secretary of Transportation tweeted that his agency was watching to ensure the airline took care of all passengers impacted by the outage, and the chairwoman of the U.S.

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The Top Rising Risks You Need to Prepare For with Chris Hurst of OnSolve

Business Resilience Decoded

There have been significant increases in incidents relating to extreme weather, infrastructure failures, and transportation incidents. Many infrastructure and transportation incidents are related to organizations being stretched extremely thin. There are more risks than ever before, so organizations need more resources to keep up.