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Preparing for Safe Electrical Disaster Recovery During Hurricane Season Using NFPA 70B

National Fire Protection Association

Both in-house personnel and outsourced personnel should be considered as part of the recovery plan. If a particular task requires a qualified person, that need must be met whether or not the laborer is supplied in house or by an outsourced contractor. A site-specific safety plan should be in place before any potential disaster occurs.

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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

MHA Consulting

As a reminder, risk management is the process of understanding the hazards facing an organization and taking steps to bring them to within a level determined to be acceptable by the senior leadership. It’s not about eliminating risk completely but managing it in a rational, informed way.

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Is It a Beef Burger? Nay

Plan B Consulting

Whilst horsemeat is not a health hazard and it is eaten in many countries, there is the issue of the medicinal drugs which are given to horses. When I teach the BCI 5 day business continuity course, a key theme of the course is that “you can outsource the activity but not the risk”.

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Is It a Beef Burger? Nay

Plan B Consulting

Whilst horsemeat is not a health hazard and it is eaten in many countries, there is the issue of the medicinal drugs which are given to horses. When I teach the BCI 5 day business continuity course, a key theme of the course is that “you can outsource the activity but not the risk”.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Risk Methodology The Risk Assessment can be completed by using a traditional Operational Risk Management (ORM) methodology (for larger organizati ons), or an All-Hazards Risk Assessment (AHRA) approach. Examples of IT options are: secondary data centres, migration to cloud-based services, or outsourcing part of IT operations.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

The Risk Assessment can be completed by using a traditional Operational Risk Management (ORM) methodology (for larger organizati ons), or an All-Hazards Risk Assessment (AHRA) approach. The development of a business continuity strategy will require a high level of support from the internal or outsourced IT organization.