It is hard to believe that even though the mountains have not quite closed, fire season is right around the corner. This past weekend’s Duck Pond Fire, along I-70 near Gypsum, demonstrated it is never ...

As chair of the new Disaster, Resilience, International Affairs and Planning Committee, I look forward to using my experience and interests as a former ocean safety officer to collaborate on disaster ...

“Every American should have the opportunity to be as healthy as he or she can be. Every community should be safe from threats to its health. And all individuals and families should have a high level ...

Good emergency planning practices and regulatory compliance mandate that long-term care facilities identify the potential threats, perils, and hazards that can adversely impact operations both from an ...

Perhaps your organization has already started working on a recovery plan for returning the workforce to work and to a "new normal" that will exist when people and companies/governments get back to ...

Planning for an unthinkable disaster is never a pleasant task -- but one that is a very necessary in today's business environment and geopolitical landscape. Now more than ever, businesses are relying ...

Tuesday marked the official start of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season — one the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says will be busier than average. But while states brace for the ...

As Hurricane Matthew bore down on the Atlantic Coast in October 2016, Mary Fashik was forced to leave her home in Brunswick, Georgia, for a communal shelter in Valdosta, about a two-hour drive inland.

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 ...

Here's the best disaster-recovery advice available: Avoid disasters altogether. But as most VARs know from experience, that's not always possible. Take it from Patrick McNicholas. The president of ...