The topic of campus safety often focuses on the preparation for violent attacks and active shooters. Because of high-profile incidents over the last 20 years, most schools have a strategic plan in ...

SCORE also encouraged me to set aside contingency money that would help bridge a closure. Insurance can help – but it can take a long time to receive the money to keep going.” While you can’t prevent ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” This is particularly true in business, where events that threaten a company’s operations and shareholder value can ...

The problems that permeate FEMA at the federal level are often replicated at the state and local levels. Despite knowing that investment in mitigation and preparedness pays off, emergency management ...

When it is your job to write a conclusion for a disaster management plan for your company, begin by summarizing the plan. Using a bulleted list or another visually appealing method, plot out the main ...

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) has adopted the Oregon Disaster Recovery Plan, Volume IV.

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

As society becomes more reliant on digitally integrated systems, the threat posed by cyberattacks continues to grow. In the United States alone, a variety of high-profile cyberattacks have occurred ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the ASEAN Secretariat have teamed up to launch a three-year disaster risk management plan that aims to strengthen the financial ...

The present state of disaster management in Bangladesh reflects both substantial progress and ongoing challenges.