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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

Print 0 46 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA At the time of writing this, the UK Government has just released the 2023 edition of the National Risk Register (NRR, HM Government 2023). In this, the UK Government is honouring its promise to promote greater transparency in risk assessment.

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Evaluating the Safety, Hazards, and Risks in Your Organization’s Physical Environments

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 144: Evaluating the Safety, Hazards, and Risks in Your Organization’s Physical Environments When was the last time you evaluated the threats to your physical environment? There is so much to consider beyond processes and security. Just because you’re not aware of a certain safety risk, doesn’t mean it’s not there.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments where organizations and countries have not used available methods of risk assessment, and as a result, “…acting individually and through collective bodies, succeed neither in effective policy nor practice in reducing vulnerability of the built environment.” [p.

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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

Source: Government of Canada January 2024 – Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) warns of extreme cold that could last for several days, with temperatures reaching as low as –50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) with wind chill. Especially vulnerable populations. The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort.