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Coordinating Emergency Response and Business Continuity in Manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

Charlie discusses the different emergency response and business continuity issues to consider after an incident, and how both teams can communicate efficiently. This week, I have been working with two manufacturing companies that both supply products to the construction industry.

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5 New State “Right to Repair” Laws and What They Mean for the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

The integrity of security and life safety systems would be unnecessarily put at risk if manufactures are forced to make sensitive technical information and other means of compromising security systems broadly available to the public. For this reason, the security industry is a critical stakeholder in related policymaking.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans. It is the responsibility of all citizens to consider, as far as they are able, their relationship with hazards and threats.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

Here, I argued that business continuity plans should consist of two components, a generic element that looks at how an incident will be managed, and a scenario-specific element that focuses on your organisations’ response to a specific event. A major fire affecting your only manufacturing site.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

Here, I argued that business continuity plans should consist of two components, a generic element that looks at how an incident will be managed, and a scenario-specific element that focuses on your organisations’ response to a specific event. A major fire affecting your only manufacturing site.

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Scenario-specific Crisis Level Plans

Plan B Consulting

Here, I argued that business continuity plans should consist of two components, a generic element that looks at how an incident will be managed, and a scenario-specific element that focuses on your organisations’ response to a specific event. A major fire affecting your only manufacturing site.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard. Myth 53: Aid always benefits the recipients, not the donors.