Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has announced that it has successfully deployed an earthquake early warning system on a bank of four elevators at its downtown San Francisco headquarters.
Protecting reputation tops business leaders list of priorities, ahead of financial achievements and business leadership, according to the world’s first benchmark of organizational resilience published by BSI.
Following rigorous scientific wind testing on a full-scale, 1,400 square foot single-story building in its laboratory, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has important new guidance for building owners preparing for major wind storms and hurricanes: close all interior doors, in addition to all windows and exterior doors.
Businesses disrupted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria should press their insurers to answer the following five questions, according to FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers.
Geary Sikich looks at some of the ‘lessons learned’ which have been published following Hurricanes Irma & Harvey and provides his own take on these. He also presents a resilience framework, which breaks the resilience process into strategic, operational and tactical levels.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a number of disaster declarations in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
Unpreparedness is still affecting many corporations according to Rave Mobile Safety’s Trends in Corporate Security survey; and lack of clarity about where responsibility lies may be at the root of the problem.
The Sri Lankan government is considering encouraging public and private sector organizations to collaborate on ‘area business continuity management plans’ in areas of the country at high risk of natural disasters.
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 August 2017.
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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.
