Typhoon Katrina  What if a really big storm hit Asia? Our new What If? map shows Hurricane Katrina's projected impact on Southeast Asia. Are your office and your backup site BOTH inside this 225 km (140 mile) circle? No wonder Americans had difficulty coping! FFI: our weather Links and the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation for Katrina’s human impact. Note: It would be a "typhoon" in Asia, not a hurricane.

Paper Chase  ISO 15489 sets the standard for records management, the forgotten step-child of contingency planning. Australia developed the original standard, and you can buy the global standard here. Why is records management important? Here's a picture of "vital records" on 9/11 in New York City.

Hard Drive  Using GPS locators, Singapore now tracks about 700 HazMat vehicles each day driving through its crowded central business district (CBD). Deviating from approved routes sets off alarms. Good for security, but what if your building’s electrical generator needs fuel in a power outage? And by the way, is a petrol tanker in the CBD more dangerous than the TWO petrol stations in the CBD?

Look! Up In The Sky!   Check out the Skyscraper page, a useful site for images to jazz up your building risk assessments. Enter a city name, and see the major office buildings organized by height. Information includes when built, height, floor area, diagrams. Here are the buildings in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo and Taipei.

Need help in Asia?  We speak the language(s). We can help you find recovery sites, identify qualified distributors and market research. We know lots of people. When you want to expand into Asia, write to our Director Nathaniel Forbes.