Effective Business Continuity/COOP professionals are realizing that developing internal partnerships is the most productive way to achieve a comprehensive Business Continuity/COOP program. One of the most important potential partnerships, and one BC/COOP professionals frequently [...]
Assuring continuity of electrical power for computers, point of sale terminals, servers, communications resources, or other critical electronic facility needs. It's no secret. Your facility may be operational, but failure of sensitive electronics can cripple [...]
Businesses in Northern California learned about a new threat to business continuity in October: the Public Safety Power Shutoff, or PSPS. With weather conditions ripe for the rapid spread of wildfire, Pacific Gas and Electric [...]
In my experience, a lack of investment in facilities management can cause serious business continuity issues. In the video below, I discuss a business that has three critical machines at its facility or plant that [...]
There are four stages in the development and management of a facility’s security program. Stage 1 is the risk assessment, which focuses on the facility itself as well as the people within it. Stage 2 [...]
On August 9th 2019, the United Kingdom was badly affected by what has been claimed to be an unprecedented power failure. Many cities were left without electricity, causing major service disruption to hospitals, airports, rail [...]
Picture this scenario: Your company is busier than it has ever been. Product is moving out the door, customers are happy, and your hiring rate is at its highest in company history. Then – suddenly [...]
Headlines over the 150-year history of tall buildings provide us with evidence of what can go wrong and the likely costs and consequences of such events. Many of the challenges are the same as those [...]
Because of their highly visible role in the Information Technology hierarchy, Business Continuity professionals have a unique opportunity to help their Facilities Operations counterparts achieve long term continuous operation. Facilities related downtime events are increasingly [...]
I believe that every security manager has two jobs. Their first is to take care of the day-to-day activities that come with running their security department. Their second is to consider and plan for the [...]
If your disaster preparedness or continuity plan includes a base camp, here are some key considerations as you develop your plan. It is far better to think through these issues well in advance than to [...]
Loss of electric power to any organization can range from a minor inconvenience to challenges affecting data retention/ backup/retrieval to ultimately causing collapse of the services being provided. This is especially problematic during prolonged [...]