G'day Guys Certainly in Australia, there appears to be a reduction in the focus on BCM, especially as a specialty discipline. In my experience, many of the...
It's always the case that disasters (especially ones "close to home") stimulate interest in BCM. What is bad for the world seems to be good for our profession...
Colleagues I need some assistance for a situation that i'm working on. One of my business units is located within an oil refinery complex which experienced a...
Kamal You should establish exactly which toxic gases may be released. Many will pass straight through some if not all masks or respirator cartridges. You...
Not sure where you are but in the UK this type of activity is controlled under health and Safety Law ...start with looking at the following and work your way...
Hello Fellow BC Professionals, I am working on a project for a client in the manufacturing area. My client does not have SLAs with their machinery repair and...
Hi I am giving a paper at the BCI Symposium in October on a graph which I believe explains BC what business continuity is all about. My talk is aimed at...
Robyn, What you often find in manufacturing environments is a lot of equipment made by a lot of different vendors. It is often integrated and customized by a ...
This may be over-kill and not what you need, but . . . Â It's been my experience that most "critical" equipment includes MTBFs/MTTRs (translation: Mean Time...
I'm looking for training roughly along the lines of the BCI Good practice guidelines - "Developing and implementing a BCM Response" Location in or near LONDON ...
I have not had direct experience with manufacturing eqpt. SLAs, but I can see what is needed here is an analysis of what downtime is acceptable to the business...
Charlie, I am currently in the middle of this exact same process but geared towards an IS perspective. One of the things I have added into the presentation...
Charlie, Â Excuse my ignorance, but - having been to the web site of the company for which you are a director - I am at a loss to understand why NOW you are...
Seemed to me he was just looking for some graphical aids to spice up his presentation. That doesn't necessarily mean he lacks information, just graphic talent....
I have to say that I was also somewhat staggered by this posting, particularly given the depth of information and the synopsis that you have to provide in your...
Charlie, It would also appear from your website that the presentation will be based upon your paper published in the Business Continuity Journal (presumably...
I agree John, I have a problem with BCI symposiums generally and in my experience they are only ever attended by the same die hard professionals who can...
BC People I seemed to have cause a bit of a kerfuffle on the site which was not my intention. I was looking for some help but I think my intention have been...
Hi, all In the ITIL and COBIT, workframe, ¿When activate a Contingency or a BCP? In ITIL andCobit there are help desk process, first, second and third level....
Writing only for myself, I would invoke a response action as soon as it becomes obvious that the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the functional unit (or...
I find the aggressive, sarcastic and damming tone of some of the responses on this discussion board lately quite disappointing. This discussion board is...
SLAs are usually based on the requirements of the business. The SLA indicates the usual allowable down time for a process or application. However at certain...
Sharon, Well said I tend to post very occasionally on threads here as I have been (what I considered to be) flamed in the past for passing on opinions /...
David In absolutely agreeing with both Sharon and yourself I have to also add the one of the reasons that some folks are reluctant, even afraid, to post is...
Hi Kamal, Since i work in a similar situation...I would suggest you to engage with the refinery management to proactively ascertain the kinds of gases they can...
Dear all, In the past few weeks there have been a couple of fairly heated exchanges which are unusual for this group. I am writing this "moderator's message"...
David, At the risk of violating one of the tenants by thanking someone, allow me to thank you for the stellar job you do in keeping this an truly profession...
For Your Information: Dean Larsen, IAEM Editorial Committee member, pointed out in a recent interview that there is more movement toward people in the...
Continuity Central news piece below: BSI British Standards has released a draft version of BS 25777 `Code of Practice for Information and Communications...
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