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Emergency Management: Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience

Disaster PreparednessMay 9, 20191KViews 0Likes 0Comments

FEMA has released a new guide to supply chain resilience aimed at helping emergency managers. The guide provides recommendations and best practices on how to analyze local supply chains. In addition to this, it also allows them to work with the private sector to enhance supply chain resilience using a five-phased approach.

A modest offer to businesses impacted by recent hurricanes or earthquakes

Disaster Preparedness, Emergency ResponseSeptember 20, 2017973Views 0Likes 0Comments

While no amount of preparation could have prevented the horrendous events of the past few weeks, preparedness may help mitigate impact and suffering as well as costs.After you have tackled the arduous task of returning your lives and businesses to a semblance of normalcy, I'm sure you will be thinking about how you could better…

BCI, BSI Horizon Scan 2016: Physical security a growing threat to organizations

Business Continuity, Disaster Preparedness, Risk ManagementFebruary 18, 2016993Views 0Likes 0Comments

Physical security is seen as growing concern for business continuity professionals, according to the fifth annual Horizon Scan Report published by the Business Continuity Institute, in association with BSI. Among the ranks of potential threats that organizations face, acts of terrorism gained six places from 10th in 2015 to 4th this year, while security incidents moved from 6th place to 5th place.