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) sometimes we hear the warning alarms so frequently that when we really have to evacuate [...]
Posts Tagged ‘BCP’
Tips on writing a zombie evacuation memo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanda Ripley, BCM, BCP, CDC, disasters, evacuation, zombie on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Evacuating the Building Because of a Zombie Infection
Posted in Humour, Risk management, tagged BCM, BCP, CDC, emergency, evacuation, fire drill, infection, zombie on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 for other threats such as an evacuation because of a zombie infection. You may laugh [...]
Riskczar Comics – Business continuity and the satellite
Posted in comics, Humour, tagged BCM, BCP, comics, Disaster, NASA, risk culture, satellite on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Riskczar Comics #2
When I say evacuate, I mean evacuate NOW
Posted in Books, My Opinions, Office and culture, Risk management, tagged 2001, 9/11, Amanda Ripley, BCM, BCP, Disaster, DRP, Martin F. Sherman, Rae Zimmerman, risk management, September 11, The Unthinkable, World Trade Center, WTC on June 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 post about Amanda Ripley’s (2008) book, The Unthinkable. For those of you who work in [...]
The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
Posted in Books, ERM Basics, Office and culture, Risk management, tagged 9/11, Amanda Ripley, BCP, DRP, evacuation, fire drill, risk management, training on May 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just updated the Risk Quotes page with a few lines from Amanda Ripley’s book The Unthinkable. It’s an excellent read for anyone responsible for business continuity planning, risk management or even if your are just the fire warden on your floor or worry about what to do when you are caught in a huge [...]
Physical Security and Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door
Posted in My Opinions, Office and culture, Risk management, tagged BCP, Led Zeppelin, physical security, security on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Physical security (graffiti?) is something that many risk professionals and auditors take seriously. Most organizations issue access cards to their employees, often configured differently to various floors or parts of the office. It’s well known that thieves will sometimes piggy back off someone coming into the office when polite employees hold the door open for strangers [...]
Risk Containment on the risk of servers and poor back up plans
Posted in Office and culture, Risk management, tagged BCM, BCP, DRP, Risk Containment, risk management, technology, Toronto on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 additional trading desks in Montreal and Vancouver. When I was asked to help with DR [...]
Risk Containment on silly business recovery tales
Posted in Humour, League of Extraordinary Risk Gentlemen, Risk management, tagged BCP, business recovery, riskcontainment on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was catching up on my risk management blog reading over the weekend and present to you a post from Risk Containment about the silly bank whose disaster recovery scenario had them move to a different part of the same building. What! Have a look at the post called Tempting Fate and Other Silly Concepts [...]
G20 update – Day 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BCP, earthquake, G20, Starbucks, twister on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day 4. This is the day we have been waiting for. The first three days of this week were like a dress rehersal. We took precautions, had folks working from home just in case, but the real test was going to be Thursday. Today. This is when we expect all the crazies to show up and [...]
G20 Jokes
Posted in Humour, tagged BCP on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
