The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that without timely intervention ‘to stop it in its tracks,’ outbreaks of the highly virulent avian flu virus H5N1, which has already spread to five West African countries in six months, will spread across the region and beyond.
They might seem mundane but planned fire evacuations are an essential aspect of protecting your employees. In this article Nigel Griffin shares some useful lessons about how to get the most out of them.
The Colombo Stock Exchange, Sri Lanka (CSE), has conducted a successful disaster recovery exercise. The stock exchange operated from its disaster recovery site on Friday July 3rd, 2015. All trading and post trade operations took place from the recovery site for a complete market day.
The updating of NFPA 1600, the Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs, has reached a new stage.
The Business Continuity Institute has issued advice for London-based businesses that are impacted by industrial action by London Underground workers.
What is the value of business continuity? That is a question those working in the profession often grapple with, certainly when attempting to justify its existence to top management.
ISO/PRF TS 22317, the new technical specification for business impact analysis, has reached stage 60.00 in the ISO standards development process.
The 6th meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) regarding the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa took place by teleconference on Thursday, 2nd July 2015, and by electronic correspondence from 2nd-6th July 2015.
BSI has launched BS 16000:2015, ‘Security management. Strategic and operational guidelines’. This new British Standard provides a generic, security management framework
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
