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Emergency Management Enhanced by Public-Private Partnerships

January 25, 2013 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

By: Ben J. Carnevale, Editor This website has promoted the benefits of the Private Sector Preparedness (PS-Prep) program from the beginning of its existence, and continues to believe that the private sector is also a vital part of our country’s emergency management team response and disaster recover capabilities. Along with FEMA and DHS, we also believe that the nation's vast network of business, industry, academia, trade associations, and other non-governmental organizations are equal - and equally responsible - partners in nearly every phase of dealing with potential threats --- … [Read more...]

Prepare My Business begins 2013 Campaign of Free Preparedness Webinar Offerings

January 14, 2013 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

For the third consecutive year, the US Small Business Administration has joined with Agility Recovery to co-sponsor the Prepare My Business Campaign, a free educational resource for businesses of all types and sizes to become better prepared for disasters, both large and small. The 2013 campaign kicks off with the first of the free monthly educations webinars on January 15th called "2012 Year In Review: Valuable Lessons & Best Practices." By registering and attending this free webinar, you can join Deputy Associate Administrator of SBA Disaster Assistance Joe Loddo and Agility CEO Bob … [Read more...]

Emergency Planning = Redundancy Planning ?

November 7, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

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by Ben Carnevale With so much content already on the web addressing the topic of emergency planning, and with so many of us (including myself) procrastinating about doing something about setting and achieving our own personal preparedness goals and objectives, I was pleased to come across a recent posting entitled “Thoughts on Preparedness” written by Lynda King. What attracted me most to this posting was her ability to make me believe that we all can actually do something to help us effectively cope when disaster strikes. Also, when thousands of people in your area all need … [Read more...]

Disaster Preparedness Myths Still Prevail

September 7, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

In a recent article, written by Paul Purcell, and entitled “Disaster Dozen: 12 Myths of Disaster Preparedness”, and, supporting this month as the National Preparedness Month 2012, our staff would like to recommend our readers look at these disaster preparedness myths and review where those myths are still present in your family, the community where you live and the organization where you work. By addressing these obstacles you will be improving the awareness and preparedness levels of individuals, families, communities and employees – but, even more importantly, you will help dispel … [Read more...]

National Preparedness Month 2012 Free Webinar Offerings

September 5, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

As mentioned in an earlier posting regarding National Preparedness Month 2012, many resources are being offered this month of September to better understand and improve disaster preparedness capabilities for yourself, your family, your community and where you work. You can get help with your own business preparedness planning through a series of free webinars hosted by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Agility Recovery. This September series of free webinars is presented in collaboration with FEMA’s Ready Campaign, as part of National Preparedness Month 2012. The SBA wants … [Read more...]

National Preparedness Month 2012

September 4, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

The Labor Day holiday is now over, and, as students all around the United States have now started their new school year, in this month of September 2012, all citizens are called to remember that throughout our country’s history, disaster events –both natural and caused by decisions made by man – have challenged the preparedness capabilities and the very fabric of our country in the past, and, certainly can do so again in the future. To this point, and as we begin this year’s National Preparedness Month (“NPM 2012”), our staff would like to remind our readers that President … [Read more...]

PS-Prep Continues Ongoing Opportunity Battles

August 16, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

Photo Source U.S. Dept Homeland Security

Since the recent announcement by ATT becoming the first company to certify under the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Program (PS-Prep) --- many readers have been requesting more information updates regarding the progress of the PS-Prep program. To attempt to address those requests, our staff would like to focus on one of the major areas currently under a lot of discussion in various PS-Prep related blogs. Most of the postings reviewed center around an issue very well addressed in a recent article written by Luke Simpson, Continuity … [Read more...]

“Project: Lifeline” and “bReddi” Facebook Applications Now Available

June 5, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

As a result of an earlier Facebook challenge to call on software application developers, entrepreneurs, social networking enthusiasts, members of the public health and emergency response communities to design a new Facebook applications that would support individual and community resilience during disasters, two winning Facebook applications went live last week. Those winning applications are Project: Lifeline and bReddi. Both of these applications allow users to identify lifelines, create and share personal preparedness plans and track the status of their Facebook friends in … [Read more...]

Business Continuity Planners Looking for Table Top Exercises — Check-Out FEMA’s Free 2012 Offerings

May 25, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

As mentioned in a prior posting, FEMA’s Private Sector Division / Office of External Affairs began a new series of tabletop exercises in 2010 as a tool to help private sector organizations advance their organization’s continuity, preparedness and resiliency. FEMA has continued to present new offerings into this series as a part of the Division’s vigilant efforts to incorporate the private sector across all stages of FEMA’s emergency management mission, to support FEMA’s capabilities, and to enhance national preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation of all … [Read more...]

AT&T’s Experience in Certifying to DHS-Adopted (PS-Prep) Preparedness Standard Offered in Free Webinar

May 15, 2012 By Continuity_Compliance Leave a Comment

For many of our readers in the private sector and for those who are members of PS-Prep strategy planning teams in their companies, you may want to mark your calendar to attend a free webinar on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 1:00-2:30 p.m. EDT. This 90-minute interactive webinar will be hosted by the Department of Homeland Security and will be about the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep™), and will also be focusing on AT&T’s experience as the first private sector company to certify to a DHS-adopted preparedness standard. The … [Read more...]