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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management? Under such circumstances, disaster risk management is vitally important, especially as one is dealing with a medical emergency and a social, economic and psychological one. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b).

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. Contains links to toolkits for preparing for different hazards as well as pages on Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Incident Management, IT/DR, and much more.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Natural hazard impacts on industry and critical infrastructure: natech risk drivers and risk management performance indicators. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , Article 101163 Marulanda, M.C., Divided disasters: examining the impacts of the conflict-disaster nexus for distanced crises in the Philippines.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. My impression is that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. So where does that leave us business continuity people?

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

Many of the former Scottish Emergency Planning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. My impression is that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. So where does that leave us business continuity people?

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. Since the 1990s, we have had a series of different threats which have been the main threats of the moment.