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Ensuring workplace safety through Senate Bill 553 compliance with Everbridge

everbridge

Under SB 553, California employers must conduct risk assessments to identify potential hazards and implement measures to mitigate them. Our mass notification system allows for quick dissemination of alerts to employees, security, and management, ensuring rapid response to potential or actual violent situations.

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RFP now open for FPRF Project: Landscape of ESS Hazards and Mitigation Strategies due October 5

National Fire Protection Association

While the fire protection and emergency response communities are working with ESS providers and others to ensure acceptable safe installations, there are still gaps in the fundamental understanding. [[ This is a content summary only. As a result, these systems are proliferating at an exponential pace.

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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

To combat this, FEMA and other agencies created constructs—programs, grants, assessments, doctrine, and coordination bodies—designed to help assess preparedness; support disaster response and recovery actions; enhance government capabilities through grant funding; and improve organization of emergency responses.

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Guest Post: Building the “Air Domain” Into Your Security Program

Security Industry Association

That framework consists of six major steps: Conduct a drone vulnerability and risk assessment (DVRA): The DVRA framework is a process that identifies the threat, accounts for critical assets, determines vulnerabilities to those assets and then offers responsible and proportionate risk mitigation recommendations.

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How to Create a Data Breach Response Team

Pure Storage

Before a breach, it’s critical to already have an emergency response plan, including a team of key players and the tools they need to get you back online fast. . Creating an emergency response team (ERT) is a critical step I recommend organizations take before an event. Part 1: Your Emergency Data Breach Response Team.

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The 7 critical elements of a business continuity plan

Online Computers

Its primary objectives are to minimize downtime, maintain business functions, and mitigate potential financial and reputational losses. By knowing the specific threats to your organization’s continuity and how exactly they can disrupt day-to-day operations, you can better design a BCP that mitigates these risks.

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They Called Me ‘The Queen of Doom’

Disaster Recovery Journal

By way of example, we recently held active shooter training for our emergency response team. a control, mitigation, plan, or process is important to include in their own program and recovery plans. Likewise, none of us can mitigate everything. It is not fiscally responsible or even practical.