The Case for an Expanded Workplace Violence Typology: Improving Threat Detection Capabilities Current incidents of extremist violence at home and abroad demonstrate the need for an expansion of existing OSHA’s workplace violence typology. For more [...]
While plans have often been made for evacuating and sheltering people in the event of disasters, considerations for the evacuation and sheltering of pets and service animals have often been overlooked. To that measure, and [...]
With technologies available to businesses constantly changing, it’s increasingly easy for a company to misjudge their technological requirements and goals. To assist in that measure, Matt McDermott, writing at the Columbia Business Times, offers a [...]
These days, it’s not only a public service, but it makes good business sense to promote emergency and disaster continuity to customers. Here’s how two companies — Chesapeake Energy and Airbnb — offer assistance to [...]
Entering week four of a 24-week-series on disaster preparedness, focused around the event of an earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone, the Oregon Statesman Journal continues to provide advice on assembling a family emergency kit, [...]
With data storage and computing being increasingly cheap and portable, organizations are increasingly encountering risks with items falling outside the awareness of IT systems and solutions, resulting in gaps in backups and security. To address [...]
While North American emergency and disaster preparedness often focuses on natural disasters, in many other parts of the world, war is also a consideration and concern. To that effect, Israel’s National Emergency Authority (NEA), a [...]