According to a report from Centrica Business Solutions, energy resilience has become a top level business risk, but there are steps that businesses can take to de-risk energy supply interruption.
FEMA has released a new guide to supply chain resilience aimed at helping emergency managers with recommendations and best practices on how to analyze local supply chains and work with the private sector to enhance supply chain resilience using a five-phased approach.
Health and safety sometimes gets a degree of ridicule, with managers and employees seeing it as unnecessary red-tape; but paying attention to minor incidents is an important step in helping to prevent potential future disasters. Klaus Allion explains more.
A detailed report by the US Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been published which looks at the threat of the detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude or in space.
A new United nations report, ‘No Time to Wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant infections’, highlights the imminent nature of the emerging antimicrobial resistance crisis and demands immediate, coordinated and ambitious action.
ISET-International has published a post event review of the impacts of Hurricane Florence, identifying lessons learned and providing recommendations for enhancing flood resilience.
A paper written by researchers at the Brawijaya University, Indonesia, provides the results of an investigation into the relationship between organizational resilience and organizational performance both directly and indirectly.
FBI Director Christopher Wray and Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass have discussed the US national security threat landscape in a recent joint interview. In the interview, Wray described a threat landscape ranging from terrorism to cyber crime to espionage.
The catastrophe loss experience of the last two years is a wake-up call for the insurance industry, highlighting a trend of growing devastation wreaked by so-called ‘secondary perils’ – which are independent small to mid-sized events, or secondary effects of a primary disaster.
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