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Foresight

Emergency Planning

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. It can signify a means of diversifying assets so as to optimise the way they can be used to exploit people, for example, by shifting manufacturing production to places where wages can most easily be suppressed.

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

In recent years, we have entered a uniquely tumultuous period, one characterized by weird weather, global conflict, and heightened supply chain vulnerability, among other challenges. Threats related to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, heat waves, and pandemics.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Risk can be affected by numerous external factors, including natural disasters, global pandemics, raw material prices, increased levels of competition, or changes to current government regulations. Various types of hazards must be considered. After identifying hazards and risks, consider how they are harmful and the possible outcomes.

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PagerDuty Responds to the Climate Imperative By Addressing Injustice With New Philanthropic Partners by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

Since then, the world has experienced the far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and a reckoning over racial injustice. One lingering legacy of the pandemic is that it has further exacerbated structural inequities in our public health systems. Gloria Walton, CEO of The Solutions Project.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard. In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. manufacturing facilities). Why did we write this guide?

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. manufacturing facilities). Why did we write this guide?