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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

As society becomes more reliant on digitally integrated systems, the threat posed by cyberattacks continues to grow. In the United States alone, a variety of high-profile cyberattacks have occurred ...

The huge floods that caused deaths and billions of baht in damage last November in Hat Yai, the economic and tourism hub in southern Thailand, reflected critical flaws in our disaster management. We ...

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, ...