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5 Steps to Implement Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Reciprocity

Enterprise risk management (ERM) is critical for success in the modern business landscape. Your ERM program should encompass all aspects of risk management and response in all business processes, including cybersecurity, finance, human resources, risk management audit , privacy, compliance, and natural disasters.

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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Setting Up an Electrical Safety Program (Part 8 - Awareness)

National Fire Protection Association

Training employees to be vigilant of the electrical hazards lurking in the workplace is difficult. An employee operating an overhead electric crane needs focused training to know specific hazards and warning signs that may be present. Management must be committed to encouraging this awareness.

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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. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global).

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

While dense in some parts and requiring familiarity with definitions and acronyms of UN and related climate policy documents (a list of abbreviations is provided), a careful reading is rewarded by lessons learned and to be learned in the emerging field of disaster risk management. That strategy is MAS—mutually assured survival.”

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Richard Krajeski, presented with transcribed commentary by a dozen participants of a special session held in his memory as part of the July 2020 Natural Hazard Workshop.

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Adapt or Fail: Climate Change Resilience for Organizations  

everbridge

The current systems and solutions in place for managing climate hazards are often inadequate, and the reliance on traditional insurance has become insufficient. Invest in the Future, Not Just the Present Many organizations focus on short-term costs, ignoring the long-term benefits of investing in resilience.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Although people often use the words “assess” and “analyze” interchangeably, the terms are not synonymous in risk management. A risk assessment forms the backbone of your overall risk management plan. Security risks aren’t the only type of risk that organizations face.