Summer’s over and cold and flu season is upon us. My friend, Tim, told me about a phone call he received a couple of weeks ago from a health care organization offering to immunize his staff with the flu vaccine. Tim got a quote and found out it would cost between $15-$20 per employee (fixed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘H1N1’
Flu vaccine risk management
Posted in My Opinions, Risk management, tagged flu, H1N1, health and safety, OHS, risk management, Toronto, vaccine on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fewer people got swine flu shot
Posted in ERM Basics, My Opinions, Office and culture, Risk management, tagged ERM, H1N1, risk, Toronto on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Should Public Health really be concerned that so few people received the H1N1 vaccination last winter? http://bit.ly/cbqZAh Do I have to explain this? Last year when the craziness and panic was being spread by the media faster than the swine flu itself, there was a run on the vaccination centres. People were lining up for [...]
H1N1 fears and IT disaster recovery lesson learned
Posted in My Opinions, Risk management, tagged BCP, ERM, H1N1 on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s nice to see that the pandemic fear generated some positive change with respect to IT disaster recovery. Now if on the ERM community could get some traction from the global threat or some other infectious disease… one can only hope. You know what? I think I am going to create a virus like they [...]
Eggo disaster recovery plan
Posted in Risk management, tagged disaster recovery, eggo, H1N1, risk management on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First H1N1 and now Eggo waffle shortage. When will the crises stop!? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=awdcxj2tvRYc Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Kellogg Co., the largest U.S. breakfast-cereal maker, said flooding at an Atlanta facility and repairs at a Tennessee factory will cause Eggo waffle shortages through the middle of next year. The scarcity was triggered by September’s floods in [...]
Toothbrush risk management
Posted in Humour, Risk management, tagged BookOfOdds, H1N1, toothbrush on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Book of Odds points out that you are more likely to be injured by your toothbrush than by a garage door. (Who knew!) The odds a person will visit an emergency department due to an accident involving a toothbrush in a year are 1 in 99,340, making a toothbrush slightly more dangerous on average [...]
Using ERM to decide if you should get the H1N1 vaccine
Posted in ERM Basics, My Opinions, Office and culture, tagged dishwasher, ERM, H1N1, impact, likelihood, probability, Trevor Levine, vaccine on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Canadian government is practicing risk management this week. It has begun administering H1N1 vaccines as part of the largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history. But did it assess the impact and likelihood of H1N1 risk properly before implementing this plan? Are people making the right decisions about getting (or not getting) the shot? [...]
Back to school: ERM in universities and colleges
Posted in ERM Basics, Frameworks, Thought Leadership, tagged ERM, H1N1, identify, retention risk, universities on September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Seeing how the day after Labour Day is traditionally the first day of school, it seemed fitting to answer the question: “Hey, Riskczar, can ERM work in universities and colleges?” The short answer is, yes. (It works anywhere silly.) So on the first day of school, let’s look at some of the risks facing institutions [...]
What is a risk and what is an issue?
Posted in ERM Basics, tagged H1N1, heat map, issue, risk on September 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are a couple of words that are often interchanged and Riskczar would like to put an end to that. At the very foundation of ERM is the use of common terms across the organization so it’s important that we all talk the same talk. What is a risk and what is an issue? Risk [...]
