http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog Consistently-entertaining, thoughtful commentary on business continuity (BCP), crisis management & emergency response Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:41:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the joint DHS-HUD Long-Term Disaster Recovery Working Group invite comments on their proposed National Disaster Recovery Framework Draft (59 pages, 834K). But you have to hurry: the deadline is February 26, 2010. Download the NDRF draft here, and submit your comments here. The ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=115 What’s the future career path for today’s BCM professional? I’ve plodded along a BCM career path for 14 years, and I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. All I see is more tunnel.Here’s a simplified job description for a BCM Manager in a multinational company in ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=112 You have to love a risk management standard called “fifty-fifty”. All three (3) parts of Australia & New Zealand’s proposed AS/NZ 5050 standard for risk management and BCM are available for free: Part 1 is the Specification (what to do, “shall” do this, “may” do that); Part 2 is the ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=111 Have you seen the disaster movie “2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn’t be able to write off the cost of our tickets as a professional development expense.Spoiler: In the movie, China saves the human race, and all the American political leaders ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=106 There is no such thing as a blood test for influenza. If you've been searching for one, you can stop. Influenza is a respiratory disease, so specimens preferred for influenza testing come from the respiratory system: nasopharyngeal swab (from the upper part of the throat behind the nose), nasopharyngeal swab ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=103 Wearing an N95 mask - or any other kind of mask - will not prevent you from getting influenza, and buying multiple masks for each employee in your office as a pandemic preparation measure is wasteful and unnecessary. It will be more effective to get them to wash their hands ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=100 A colleague of mine returned to Singapore on Wednesday, May 27 from Boston, USA, where he'd spent the week between May 17 and May 24. He came back with a cold, a bad one.He was sure it was a cold, not the flu: his temperature had not gone over 36 ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=99 I can find no clinical evidence that Roche's Tamiflu is more effective than GlaxoSmithKline's less-prescribed Relenza against Type A influenza like H1N1 and H5N1.Japanese health inspector in goggles, mask, gloves and gown interviews passengers on a flight arriving in Tokyo from the U.S. on May 2, 2009I have found abundant ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=98 It can be tough to justify the value of a BCP job these days. The biggest threat most professionals worry about these days is unemployment: our own. Here are three ideas to mitigate that risk that will increase a BCP manager’s value to an organization.• Cut something. Chop down your ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=97 The Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre invites you to attend a one week resident course on “Incident Command System (ICS) for Disaster Management” from 10-16 August 2009 in Phuket, Thailand. This is the first time ADPC has offered an ICS course, and one of ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=93