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 recent meeting of a WHO Emergency Committee convened to consider the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has concluded that there is an increasing risk of spread to adjoining countries.
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.
At a recent meeting of ministers and disaster management officials from the United States and 18 Caribbean countries a new 'US-Caribbean Resilience Partnership' was officially launched.
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.
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have published two pieces of Joint Advice in response to requests made by the European Commission in its March 2018 FinTech Action Plan. The guidance documents aim to promote stronger operational resilience and harmonization in the EU financial sector.
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