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  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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Day 2 starts with rain in Toronto. There was a minor protest yesterday afternoon for people protesting that they had nothing important to protest. Or maybe they were protesting poverty. One guy was busted by a cop on a bike for having some pot. I counted at least 100 cops on my walk down to [...]

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In case you haven’t heard, the G20 Summit is coming to Toronto next week. In my current role, I’ve been involved in some of the business continuity planning but mostly from a communication perspective.  All of the heavy lifting had already been done.  The event is taking place in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. [...]

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Want to reduce the risk of traffic accidents and pedestrians getting struck by vehicles? Then remove the traffic lights and let people cross anywhere they want. Professor John Adams of University College London explains in a February 2008 article that “traffic lights force drivers to watch and obey robots rather than other road users – [...]

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In an earlier post, I wrote about some unusual risks not likely included on your risk registers: elephant risk, monkey risk and zombie risk. For those of you who may have been trying to treat your high residual risks of Vampire Bites or Werewolf Attacks on your risk registers, good news, you can treat these [...]

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Elephant Risk

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the threat of zombies and whether it was too soon to ad zombie risk to your risk register or heat map. Well what about Elephant Risk? The Scientific Leader Blog writes about the increasing danger of elephants in India and Sri Lanka entering cities and causing trouble. For [...]

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Risk management is looking forward Risk management is when you are driving your car on a foggy night and you cannot see more than 10 feet in front of you – there may be something out there: perhaps a deer, another vehicle or a zombie hitchhiking. But you don’t know when or if you will [...]

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According to researchers at two Ottawa universities who modeled a zombie attack using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies, “classic” slow-moving zombies could take over our cities in under a week. (The “nimble, intelligent creatures” would take a few days less I imagine.) And while we can all laugh this one off and conclude [...]

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