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Facilitate Your Recovery – Your Plan Is Incomplete without a Work Group Plan
This article was first published more than a decade ago. We’ve not changed it, to indicate even back then, working from home or somewhere other than a traditional office made sense. Covid-19 proved that. But [...]
Good Practices for Mission Critical Electrical Power Reliability
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 [...]
PSPS: The Latest Threat To Business Continuity
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 [...]
What is the Relationship between Facilities Management and BC?
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 [...]
Why are So Few Facility Risk Assessments Completed?
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 [...]
POWER – Without Guaranteed Supply You Can Forget Enterprise Resilience
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 [...]
You Can Avoid Business Disruptions by Determining Risk at Facilities
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 [...]
The Challenge of Emergency Evacuation from High-Rise Buildings
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 [...]
BC and Facilities Pros Working Towards Continuous Data Center Operation
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 [...]
One Manager, Two Jobs
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 [...]