Here’s a story about a watermain break in the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds, Quebec which left about fifty homes without water for a couple of days. The West Island Gazette writes: Pierrefonds residents can expect two four-litre bottles of…
Tips on writing a zombie evacuation memo
One of the biggest risks about evacuating your office in the event of an emergency is getting people to actually evacuate safely. You can send all the emails you want about procedures but like the boy who cried were(wolf)…
Evacuating the Building Because of a Zombie Infection
To be read in association with the post: “Tips on writing a zombie evacuation memo“. There are many reasons – including fire or bomb threats – that require us to evacuate the building but it is equally important that we prepare…
Riskczar Comics – Business continuity and the satellite
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When I say evacuate, I mean evacuate NOW
In today’s post, I write about the December 2010 article “To Leave an Area After Disaster: How Evacuees from the WTC Buildings Left the WTC Area Following the Attacks” by Rae Zimmerman and Martin F. Sherman. It compliments my earlier…
Risk Containment on the risk of servers and poor back up plans
Another great post from RiskContainment called Back Up? What Back Up? about the risk of putting servers in a basement, reminded me of this tale from my past: I once worked for an international securities dealer in Toronto; we had…