A new research report highlights that ten years after Hurricane Katrina exposed the widespread neglect of children in US emergency planning, most recommendations of the national commission created to address those gaps remain unfulfilled.
One of the great risks to business operations today comes from complex global supply chains. Do we actually learn from events and improve our practice, or simply observe and then cite the event as evidence to reinforce our existing practices?
John Ball, MBCI, describes how taking business continuity training in-house can pay dividends for public sector organizations.
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during June 2015.
The United Nations has announced that an English version of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is now available. It will also be released in the other five UN languages at the end of July 2015.
Researchers find that there is a significant risk that the seas around Scandinavia, England, the Netherlands and northern Germany will rise by up to about 1.5 metres in this century.
Lloyd’s and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Risk Studies have published a joint report into the implications of a successful widespread cyber attack on the US power grid.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named experts in business continuity planning and the post-disaster recovery of telecommunication networks to serve as NIST Disaster Resilience Fellows.
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has launched a new data visualization tool that enables users to see when and where historical disaster declarations have occurred across the country. Businesses can use the tool to assess disaster risks for their location, based on disaster declarations going back to 1953.
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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.
