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Discussion with FEMA Adminstrator on Building Codes

Recovery Diva

From Smart Cities Diva, this article on the outcome of a recent Wash Post live event last week: As billion-dollar disasters increase, FEMA evolves to keep up.The agency is reevaluating when to scale up staffing and eyeing building codes as a strategy to save on recovery costs.

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Optimize Your Emergency Response: Team Roles and Responsibilities

Alert Media

Do your people know who to call when an emergency arises? Find out how to cover all your bases with incident response plans and teams today.

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Some Personal Preparedness for Persons with Major Illnesses

Recovery Diva

Here is some advice for those with major illnesses to help anticipate and enhance their ability to cope with a major disaster. The source of this information is the Mesothelioma Center. Those who have been diagnosed or have a family member diagnosed with cancer can have a particularly hard time when natural disasters occur. This can range from not having the ability to refill a prescription to roadways being blocked so they can’t make it to the hospital to continue their treatment.

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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. Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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IntelligentSIA: New Awards Programs, Can’t-Miss Events, New Research and Other Offerings to Help You Maximize Your Membership

Security Industry Association

Hey SIA members! Here are the top 12 things you need to know about our latest activities and resources, upcoming events and opportunities and more. Welcome, New Members! The Security Industry Association (SIA) would like to welcome its newest members: BluePoint Alert Solutions , Digi Security Systems , FieldHub , Impact Recovery Systems , International Security Consultant, INID Readers USA, nSide , Risk Mitigation Technologies LLC , RS/M Risk and Security Management Consulting and Wicket.

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Taiwan, Gun Violence, Fishing in the Arctic: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on the potential for a Chinese attack on Taiwan, America's persistent gun violence problem, managing Arctic fisheries, and more.

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This little piggy (or the ramblings of a travelling consultant, episode 10)

Oz's Business Continuity Blog

I recently found myself on an early morning train to London.