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Business continuity and operational resilience – how different are they really?

Delighted to find that my article, ‘Business continuity and operational resilience – how different are they really?‘, listed on the Continuity Central site has been listed as the 7th most read article of 2022 Business continuity and operational resilience – the article The article comments on the Operational Resilience Report 2022, which was published recently […]

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Manchester Arena Inquiry Report: Lessons for Everyone? – Part 3

The latest in our series of blogs about lessons that can be identified from Volume 2 of the Report of the Public Inquiry into the Attack on Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017. The following are points raised from the first volume, and highlights some additional lessons that should be observed in Crisis Management and

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Manchester Arena Inquiry Report: Lessons for Everyone? – Part 2

Volume 2 of the Report of the Public Inquiry into the Attack on Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017, focussing on Emergency Response, has been published. The Manchester Arena Inquiry report is a lengthy tome, with Part 1 coming in at 716 pages. I can only claim to have read the first half of the

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Manchester Arena Inquiry: Lessons for Everyone?

Volume 2 of the Report of the Public Inquiry into the Attack on Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017, focussing on Emergency Response, has been published. A lengthy tome, with Part 1 coming in at 716 pages, I can only claim to have read the first half of the first volume, but it proves stark

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On This Day in History – Ladbroke Grove

23 years ago today 31 people died and over 250 were injured when two trains collided at Ladbroke Grove. First and foremost our thoughts are with the many people who are still affected by the accident years later. As well as being one of the worst train crashes in Britain over the last few decades,

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Learning from Disasters – the Indonesia Football Crush

Waking on Sunday morning I imagine that many people felt the same sense of terrible shock and sadness that I did at the news of mass fatalities at a football match in Malang, Indonesia. Unsurprisingly, amidst the outpouring of grief, there have been many calls to learn lessons from the tragedy. This would seem to

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Remembering the 7 July Bombings

17 years ago today, London was shaken by a series of terrorist bombings on public transport that left 56 people dead and hundreds injured. As well as remembering all those affected by the tragedy, it is timely to reflect on the lasting legacy of that day. Although living and working in London at the time,

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Remembering the Fukushima Disaster 11 Years On

On 11th March 2011, a tsunami off the coast of Japan triggered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. At the time we wrote the following piece on our blog: “It is reported that the current perilous situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant is the result of the failure of backup generators to supply

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Remembering the Salisbury Nerve Agent Poisonings Four Years On

As we watch in horror at the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, it is perhaps timely to recall Russian aggression here in the UK four years ago. On 4th March 2018 Sergei and Yulia Skripal became very seriously ill after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. One of the Police officers who attended the incident

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