http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog Consistently-entertaining, thoughtful commentary on business continuity (BCP), crisis management & emergency response Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:25:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 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