Recent years have demonstrated that unexpected events can disrupt any organisation. Yet, a critical gap persists — many businesses lack implementable or practical business continuity strategies and plans.
The challenge lies in the creation of costly over-engineered plans that prove ineffective during disruptions or emergencies. COVID has highlighted the shortcomings of many business continuity plans. Continue reading
Why do so many avoid failure?
In product development of plant asset management, we are surrounded by people that steadfastly do not want to know about or talk about failures.
Failure does happen. Let’s not ignore this simple fact. Continue reading
A Tool for Risk Management and Training
Many EHS professionals struggle to build a common understanding of significant risks and the controls that prevent and mitigate those risks — and easily share it by training their workforce. That’s because the tabular format used in most risk registers has been shown to limit the retention and therefore usefulness of that knowledge beyond the risk workshop. Continue reading
There’s a difficult job, a real problem, the metaphorical hot potato which, once touched, spells doom. But, somebody somewhere at some time has to do something. In the ensuing crisis, and just as one person’s problem is another’s opportunity, we have an opportunist. As Machiavelli wrote “never let a crisis go to waste”, every cloud can have a silver lining for some, and opportunity rarely knocks twice. Continue reading
This is the second of two articles submitted to CERM Insights at about the same time. This one deals with the Community Disaster Resilience Zone Act passed by the United States Congress on December 22, 2022. The other deals with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cyber Security Framework 2.0. Together they form a mosaic of the Biden Administration’s Risk Management push. Continue reading