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Author Archives: Robert
Do as I say…
A phone message to all staff went out from the regional Vice President – this coming year we will have a laser focus on safety. Over the most recent twelve months, the message explains, the rate of injury has increased … Continue reading
Posted in Safety
Tagged employee injury, injury, OSHA, safety, worker's compensation
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Causes of Business Disasters
The headline reads “Local Disaster Impacts Businesses”. This statement conjures up images of mass business failures in the aftermath of a flood, fire or other catastrophic incident. While it is true floods, fires, tornadoes and other disasters impact businesses and … Continue reading
Posted in Business Continuity, Risk Management
Tagged Business Continuity, data, data center, Disaster, human error, power, power outage, second order effects
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Tornadoes in Joplin MO
Joplin, Missouri is not a town that I will likely forget soon. I went out of town on vacation last week for some camping and hiking. My wife and I stayed in Joplin for easy access to the Ozarks and … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Preparedness, Risk Management
Tagged Disaster, emergency preparedness, Joplin, Missouri, preparedness, resilience, tornado, tornadoes
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500-Year Flood?
The news today has announced that flooding along the Mississippi River is no longer a “100-year flood” is has now reached the level of a “500-year flood”. I hate the terms “100-year flood” or “500-year flood” . These are misleading … Continue reading
Posted in Loss Control
Tagged Disaster, FEMA, flood, flooding, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, mitigation, Ohio River
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Personal Resilience – Lessons Learned from Spring Tornadoes and Floods
The month of April has not been a good one for residents of the southern US. So far the Storm Prediction Center, America’s central forecast office for severe weather, has received more than 1000 reports of tornados in the month … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Preparedness
Tagged Alabama, Arkansas, Cairo, Disaster, emergency preparedness, flood, flooding, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, tornado, tornadoes
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Another Week Another Data Breach
A month ago, RSA announced a catastrophic data breach of their systems resulting in the release of proprietary information that could “reduce the effectiveness” of RSA two-factor authentication tokens. This breach garnered much media attention and concern from government and … Continue reading
Incident Command System for Information Security Incidents?
As a risk manager, but also a firefighter, I have long been an advocate of the Incident Command System (ICS) when handling incidents. Fires, motor vehicle collisions, data center disasters and other emergencies benefit from the clearly defined roles and … Continue reading
Maintaining Security after the RSA Security Breach
On Thursday 17-Mar RSA’s Chairman Art Coviello announced company servers containing proprietary information about RSA’s SecurID product had been breached. The security incident and subsequent data loss compromised the effectiveness of the two-factor authentication product used by government and industry … Continue reading
Posted in Information Security
Tagged authentication, data, data breach, data security, information security, RSA, SecurID, security, token, two factor
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More Safety Questions About the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant
It has been a little more than two weeks since a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami impacted Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. The news from Japan continues to be grim. With news stories highlighting radiation “100,000 times” normal and … Continue reading
Disaster Recovery Plans Built for Catastrophe
The news out of Japan in the past two weeks has been stunning. Japan is struggling with the aftermath of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on Honshu island north of Tokyo. Stop for a minute and think about the … Continue reading
Posted in Business Continuity
Tagged best practices, Business Continuity, Disaster, disaster recovery, planning, plans
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