The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) has published a technical report – registered with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) – that can help guide companies to safer environments and a coordinated response should a hostile event occur.
Ireland’s Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, has told businesses in the country that they should carry out a supply chain analysis to identify risks of exposure when the UK leaves the EU.
City resilience is critically important to economic, organizational, and community well-being. This has been recognised by the development of a standard for city resilience by the British Standards Institution. Robert Hall looks at the new BS67000 standard.
The US Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC), operated for the Department of Homeland Security by the RAND Corporation, has released a new report on how to build an effective and practical national approach to terrorism prevention.
A new paper from the UK Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says that the world is facing ‘a new domain of risk’ with cascading environmental risks potentially leading to severe impacts on human systems from local to global levels.
Canadian Federal, Provincial and Territorial (FPT) Ministers responsible for emergency management met recently to release the country’s first ever Emergency Management Strategy (EM)
The Security Executive Council (SEC) has added a new Incident Management Flowchart to its resilience best practices knowledge base. SEC says that the flowchart 'describes a successful framework that can be customized for your company'
Cost recovery for electric sector cybersecurity investments and development of resilience metrics to gauge the industry's progress are two of several recommendations in a new study by researchers.
FTI Consulting has published its first Resilience Barometer report, which highlights how companies based in the G20 are managing organizational resilience.
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