http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog Consistently-entertaining, thoughtful commentary on business continuity (BCP), crisis management & emergency response Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:11:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 I have upbraided SPRING Singapore and the Singapore Business Federation for failing to promote effectively Singapore's erstwhile business continuity management (BCM) standard TR 19 between its birth in 2005 and its demise in 2008. But for stealth and invisibility, it's hard to beat the clandestine work of Malaysia's national standards ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=92 What does it really mean for an individual to be "certified" in business continuity?Like the euphemism "sub-prime", the word "certified" is losing its meaning in Asia as the number and variety of BCM certifications and their purveyors grow like vines in the jungle. Attend a course, get the certificate and ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=90 In July 2008, I wrote that Technical Reference 19 (TR 19:2005), Singapore's proposed international standard for business continuity management (BCM), appeared to be dying a slow death and suggested that the prognosis for it might be terminal. I was wrong.It turns out that the patient just needed cosmetic surgery. Singapore's ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=89 I suppose that putting up posters in your office might raise awareness of risk, security, audit, fraud, theft and other naughty behaviors. New Zealand IT consulting company IsecT Limited publishes risk management posters for that purpose every month on their NoticeBored web site. The company has been distributing free, high-resolution ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=87 Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies - a mass fatality incident, or MFI - that would result from an earthquake or flu pandemic. A ‘mortality surge’ would overwhelm morgue capacity, as it did in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, for example. U.S. hospitals are required ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=85 I think of organizational resilience as a chain that links security, emergency management (EM), disaster recovery, business continuity management (BCM) and crisis management. A resilient organization deploys appropriate security, has an I.T. disaster recovery plan, exercises its business continuity plan and has a separate crisis management plan. But most organizations do ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=84 It's hard not to notice the earthquake risk around the Pacific Rim these days. Maybe the risk is actually higher, or maybe I just notice it more, but in the last four months, Asia has had three earthquakes of 6.0 or higher on the Richter scale, the magnitude at which ... http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/?p=83