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 ...

A proposed federal plan to react to such disasters as the Sept. 11, attacks or Hurricane Katrina came under fire Tuesday from emergency response experts who said the proposal needs revision. The broad ...

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 ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

County staff said the overhaul is needed now that participation demands and state requirements have changed, and the county wants more control over what responders are learning.

First responders did their jobs. Now city leadership must do more to prepare for the next crisis.

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government formally launched the Provincial Disaster Management Plan (PDMP) 2025–2030, a comprehensive framework aimed at protecting the province from natural disasters and the ...

In the morning, participants are assigned to six teams – Red, Blue, Green, Gray, Yellow, and Purple – for four hours of hands-on training in topics such as Field Assessment and Co-ordination, ...