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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.

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Business, Interrupted: Peeling Back the Layers of Supply Chain Resilience

Castellan

While the pandemic certainly has shone a light on supply chain resilience issues, it’s not a new problem for the industry. That was a similar experience for others during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and into 2021 where container shipping was significantly impacted. How will you accept, mitigate, remediate, or remove these risks?

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

The bureaucratic approach Emphasis is quite rightly placed on mitigating these impacts and preparing to adapt our lives and livelihoods to climate change. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

As the transport and operation of field hospitals tends to be expensive and logistically challenging, in some cases it may be more efficient to attempt to restore or augment existing hospitals in the area, even if they are significantly damaged. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack.

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Navigating the Supply Chain Crisis

Risk Management Monitor

Extraordinary congestion at critical global ports, decreased availability of key raw materials and component parts, rising freight bills and an increasingly tight job market have all contributed to the need for companies to create an effective logistics risk management program. How Did We Get Here?

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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

The Arrival of Business Resilience In recent years, the rise of extreme weather, global instability, the pandemic, social media, cloud computing, cybercrime, and customer expectations about always-on services have all contributed to the sense that a more strategic, holistic approach was called for.

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