The topic of campus safety often focuses on the preparation for violent attacks and active shooters. Because of high-profile incidents over the last 20 years, most schools have a strategic plan in ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

A proposed federal plan to react to such disasters as the Sept. 11, attacks or Hurricane Katrina came under fire Tuesday from emergency response experts who said the proposal needs revision. The broad ...

SCORE also encouraged me to set aside contingency money that would help bridge a closure. Insurance can help – but it can take a long time to receive the money to keep going.” While you can’t prevent ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” This is particularly true in business, where events that threaten a company’s operations and shareholder value can ...

Planning is one of the most common tasks that emergency managers undertake. It is a time-consuming process and can be more drawn out by the number of people and organizations who you engage with to ...

When it is your job to write a conclusion for a disaster management plan for your company, begin by summarizing the plan. Using a bulleted list or another visually appealing method, plot out the main ...

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) has adopted the Oregon Disaster Recovery Plan, Volume IV.

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management has announced the adoption of the Oregon Disaster Recovery Plan.

As society becomes more reliant on digitally integrated systems, the threat posed by cyberattacks continues to grow. In the United States alone, a variety of high-profile cyberattacks have occurred ...