By: John Glenn, MBCI
April 12, 2012
Too many practitioners overlook an organization’s most critical risks. We worry about a variety of risks and ways to avoid or mediate them, often at great cost to the organizations.
We promote responder training. Hopefully we also promote both in-place sheltering and evacuation exercises, not forgetting that some folks are less mobile than others.
What we rarely seem to do, however, is train the folks on the ground to be First Alerters.
We need to apply the admonishments we hear at the airports and other transportation hubs to the organization’s …

Published on: April 4, 2012
Source: www.continuitycentral.com
TC223, the ISO Technical Committee that has been developing the ISO 22301 international business continuity management standard, has voted to approve the FDIS (Final Draft International Standard). This means that the standard can now be published. It is currently expected that it will be available by the end of the second quarter of 2012. Its official title will be ‘ISO 22301 Societal security — Business continuity management systems.’
ISO 22313, the guidance document that will support ISO 22301, is currently at DIS (Draft International Standard) stage. …

Homeland Security Newswire
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Published April 6, 2012
Missouri governor announces an investment of $16.5 million in federal National Emergency Grant (NEG) funding to create temporary jobs for workers in twenty-nine Missouri counties affected by tornadoes, floods, and severe storms last year

Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri the other day announced an investment of $16.5 million in federal National Emergency Grant (NEG) funding to create temporary jobs for workers in twenty-nine Missouri counties affected by tornadoes, floods, and severe storms last year. Using these funds, the Missouri Disaster Recovery Jobs Program will create 1,347 additional temporary …

Homeland Security Newswire
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Published March 28, 2012
The government of Haiti and the UN Development Program launch Haiti’s National System for Disaster Risk Reduction program; the UN says this is one of the first times that a developing country has taken advance measures to reduce the vulnerability of its people and economy to future earthquakes
Haiti’s minister of the interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul and UN Development Program (UNDP) administrator, Helen Clark, the other day hosted a ceremony in Cap-Haitien, putting into action a Seismic Risk Reduction Plan for Northern Haiti.
The Ministry of the Interior of Haiti says that …

An estimated 20,000 people died or are still missing after a massive earthquake-induced tsunami struck Japan on 11 March 2011, yet some 200,000 people were in the inundation zone at the time; experts say that if the same magnitude earthquake and tsunami hits the Pacific Northwest, the death toll will be much higher because of the lack of comparable preparation; that 90 percent rate could be the number of victims, not survivors.