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 Asia BCP Manager, Singapore
BCP Coordinator, Taiwan A global insurance company is recruiting a full-time Business Continuity Coordinator in Taipei to develop, implement, test, train and maintain the company's contingency program. The company has 1,000+ employees in Taiwan. Submit your qualifications to recruiter BC Management at this link or contact Mr. Nathaniel Forbes or Ms. Cheyene Haase.
India's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) issued earthquake management guidelines (4 MB, 50 page PDF). Half of India is at risk of earthquakes; 23,000 people have died in six (6) major earthquakes in India since 1990. Look at this map of India's earthquake risk.
Most deaths were caused by collapsing buildings, and most of those in rural areas. The guidelines contain "6 pillars" (page 15) that focus on improvement, enforcement and awareness of building construction standards. State and local government agencies must develop disaster management (DM) plans (page 12) by December 2008. There's no mention of private sector participation in disaster response, and no mention of BCP, crisis management or emergency response.
BCM Conference in Singapore Forbes Calamity Prevention is buying the coffee on Tuesday morning, 30 October at the BCM conference in Singapore. Our professionals will be handing out their name cards and shaking as many hands as possible. Come join us to see who wins the first Asia BCM Awards. We will be handing out the 2006 Asia BCP salary survey from our recruiting partner, BC Management, and asking everyone to participate in the next Asia compensation survey in January, 2008.
You're A Heck of a Flood Fighter, Brownie
Michael D. Brown, former head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during hurricane Katrina - the one person in the world most associated with incompetent flood preparation and response - is the chairman of Flood Fighters, a U.K. conference and "forum for all agencies to plan and work together," according to its web site. He is also speaking next week at NEDRIX in the USA on "Public Safety, Preparedness and Emergency Management." Mr. Brown must be undergoing professional rehabilitation, an American right-of-passage for celebrities and politicians. He had no emergency management experience prior to joining FEMA. He had been a lawyer, teacher, legislative staffer and the Judges and Stewards Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association. U.S. President Bush memorably said of Brown's performance in the Katrina disaster, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." He is now an advisor to a company selling data analysis systems for homeland security. Victims of hurricane Katrina are two years later, quite literally, going crazy. Listen to this story, Stuck & Suicidal in a Post-Katrina Trailer Park, by U.S. National Public Radio reporter Alix Spiegel about some survivors of Hurricane Katrina. You only need hear a few minutes to feel the pathetic results of Brown's professional failure.
800,000 people were displaced in New Orleans. Families have been living for two years in trailers like this one. The population of the city is today barely half of what it was. Half the fire stations still haven't been repaired. The city is still utterly unprepared for a major hurricane, according to Time magazine. And this is despite one million volunteers contributing a quarter billion dollars of free labor. I was one of them. So far as I know, Mr. Brown was not.
Perhaps he intends to apologize publicly at these conferences, to give a 'lessons learned' speech, a genuine mea culpa. But his total lack of emergency response experience had terrible consequences for the Gulf Coast. Those consequences are still being felt by thousands of people who don't get publicity.
As a planning professional and as an American, I am embarrassed.
Need help but can't afford a full-time BCP professional? We outsource qualified BCP professionals for as little as one (1) day or two (2) days per week on contract. Read our Capabilty Statement with case studies of our satisfied clients over 12 years. Contact Elaine Khaw at elainek@calamity.com.sg or Nathaniel Forbes at nforbes@calamity.com.sg, or call +65 6324-3091 in Singapore (12 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time, 8 hours ahead of London).
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