3-day BCI Professional Certification Training
Last session in 2012
Tuesday – Thursday, 2 -4 October 2012
20% discount for first ten (10) registrations

This is Nathaniel Forbes’ highly-rated version of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) prep course, intended to help BCM professionals pass the 125-question BCI certification exam. The course covers all six (6) practices of the BCM Lifecycle outlined in the BCI’s Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2010.

What are the six (6) BCM practices you must know to pass the exam?  Download Nathaniel’s free course brochure here, or email to Chris Tan at chris.tan@calamity.com.sg for your copy.

Click here for a copy of the BCI GPG 2010.

Because of his long experience teaching this course, Nathaniel covers all the material – plus his proprietary, real-world case studies – in just three (3) days instead of the usual five (5) days.

Why take BCI’s certification preparation course from Nathaniel Forbes in Singapore?
• Save time:  take just three (3) days instead of the usual five (5) days
• The highest-rated BCM instructor in Asia, year after year for 16 years
• More than BCM theory, Nathaniel shows you real-world examples
• 80%+ of the students who’ve taken this course from Nathaniel passed the exam
• Save money: Nathaniel’s course fee includes the USD 500 exam fee
• Watch Nathaniel Forbes’ introduction to our 3-day BCI training course
• Our No Fail Guarantee: if you don’t pass, you don’t pay again to retake
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Most industrial parks don’t include SCUBA divers in their recovery plans. But car companies and a shoe maker in Thailand – but nowhere near the ocean – had to hire divers to retrieve hard-to-replace moulds from submerged factories in November. “No one thought about such a worst-case scenario”, said one company president. “In future we will need to reconsider the flood risk.”

They sure will. Three (3) major rivers – the Chao Phraya, Lopburi and Pa Sak – converge around the industrial estates in Ayutthaya. But companies obviously decided that tax incentives and the proximity of suppliers outweighed the risks of catastrophic flooding. Or maybe they just skipped a risk assessment entirely.

Supply chain resilience strategy: don’t build a shoe-, car- or disk drive factory in a floodplain. Some companies may even avoid Thailand. Impact: if one Japanese multinational were to choose, say, Vietnam or Myanmar for its next factory, others would follow, beginning a chain of falling dominoes for Thailand – eventually. Prime Minister Shinawatra’s crisis management effort is just beginning.

• In addition to flooding and storms, risks in Asia include volcanoes, earthquakes and volcanoes with earthquakes – not generally worries in Europe or North America.

International Humanitarian Assistance Symposium

Dave Parsons and Jason Kelly

Most industry conferences don’t have a “Survivor Reception”, but there will be one at International Humanitarian Assistance Symposium (IHAS), 7-8 June 2012 in Miami (USA). In fact, one day is just panels of disaster survivors, including 9/11 New York and Pan Am Flight 103, and TWA Flight 800. IHAS is organized by the Family Assistance Foundation (FAF); FAF board member Jeff Morgan was Manager of Emergency Response & Contingency Planning at Delta Airlines. Check out the sponsors (bottom of the home page). A whole conference on private sector humanitarian assistance in the cruise, energy, manufacturing, retail and transportation businesses is new in organizational resilience. IHAS is affordable, too: USD 350 for two days, and even less if you register now. Miami in June? Just like a Singapore monsoon . . .

I learned about IHAS from Jeff Morgan at the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) Emergency Management (EM) conference in Kuala Lumpur in September 2011.

I was on a panel at AAPA EM with Dave Parsons and Jason Kelly answering the question, Are Crisis Leaders Born or Made? Our answer: both: about1/3 born, 2/3′s made. See our slides on SlideShare. We were moderated by Cathay Pacific Airways‘ Crisis Response Manager, Carrie Shiu.

The Singapore Crisis Response Network (CRN) provides emotional support and crisis intervention for expatriates from all countries in a crisis. Started by the Singapore American Community Action Council (SACAC), CRN meets about five (5) times a year on the first Wednesday of a month.

If you lived and worked in a foreign country, what would you want or need after a disaster? CRN is thinking about:

You can find Crisis Response Network meeting announcements on the CRN Facebook page; while you’re there, “like” them. Better yet, volunteer. Contact Suzanne Anderson to register for training or to get on the mailing list.

A Singapore building warden will probably never squirt foam on an actual fire; why train wardens to use extinguishers in an office environment? So, drop the word “fire” and instead focus your wardens on their genuinely important responsibilities: evacuate, escape, assemble and account for everyone (“EEAA”). Dr. David Chew‘s ARIS Integrated Medical delivers realistic warden EEAA training: smoke, sirens, flashing lights, hollering, lots of confusion.

Check out this video of our exercise for TENET Insurance before the Singapore IWE in September 2011.

Spoiler alert: they hid a CPR dummy in a women’s toilet stall, and timed how long it took a warden to find the ‘victim’.

The International Disaster Conference and Exposition (IDCE2012), to be held January 17-19, 2012, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, will bring together emergency management, homeland security and disaster industry professionals from the public and private sectors around the world to share lessons learned and forward thinking regarding the policies, procedures and best practices shaping disaster preparation, response and recovery, loss mitigation, business continuity and more. Conference speakers, exhibitors and attendees will share the latest knowledge, technologies and techniques toward the common goal of minimizing the loss of life and property in future catastrophic events.

Industry professionals can review the entire IDCE2012 program and register to attend at the IDCE website: www.internationaldisasterconference.com. To receive news on the latest developments with IDCE2012 via email, click on the “Keep up . . . join the IDCE mailing list” button on the website’s home page.