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The World Conference on Disaster Management is celebrating its 20th birthday this year. June 6-9 in Toronto, Canada. I have been accepted as a presenter for the conference, which is a great honour. My session was inspired by the themes of the event – 20 years of progress and Emergency Management and BC working together. It occurred to me [...]
In the previous post in this series I set out some basic thoughts. Perhaps the state of my current thinking on the subject can be summed up as follows; Heritage BC has become a compliance activity. BCP for compliance with audit and BCM for compliance with management systems standards. Resilience has to be about building capability [...]
Another disruption to add to the collection. This time it is not technology that is the cause, but a combination of mother nature and possibly some complacency. From Jan Husdal’s blog today - highlights that road transport and communications are disrupted due to a lack of salt and other “grit”. “All over Europe, salt is in [...]
This year I decided to add a series of posts about significant outages. These may often be nothing more than a link to a report of the outage, and perhaps a quick comment question on the issue. Here is another – it is only 6 January and already there have been 3-4 significant events. This [...]
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