Showing posts with label business resilience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business resilience. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

Fresh tremors felt in S'pore

Oct 1, 2009
Fresh tremors felt in S'pore

FRESH tremors were reported in several parts of Singapore for a second day on Thursday morning.

Police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force received more than 60 calls from the public reporting these tremors, shortly after a second earthquake with a 6.8-magnitude hit southern Sumatra, about 480 km southwest from Singapore, at 9.52 am.

Areas that felt the tremors include the Central Business District (CBD), Beach Road, Teban Gardens, Pasir Panjang, Toa Payoh, Ang Mo Kio, Yishun, Sengkang, Punggol, Sims Drive, Marine Parade, Tanjong Rhu, Woodlands, Choa Chu Kang and Jurong West.

No reports of injury nor law and order concerns have been received so far, said police.

On Wednesday, tremors were felt in 234 buildings in Singapore on Wednesday evening soon after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra Coast.

They included 187 Housing Board flats, 16 private residential buildings and 31 commercial buildings, said police in an update early on Thursday morning.

Engineers from the HDB and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) inspected all the affected buildings and found them to be structurally safe and sound.

Thousands of Singaporeans had a fright when they felt tremors in the wake of the strong earthquake on Wednesday at about 6.15pm.

Scores of office workers and residents streamed out of some buildings in areas such as Raffles Place and Changi, and tremors were felt islandwide from Kembangan to Woodlands.

Some 170 calls about the tremors were also made to the authorities.

In a update on the tremors on Thursday, police assured the public that there is no cause for alarm.

'Buildings in Singapore are designed to established building codes and are sufficiently robust to withstand tremors caused by distant earthquakes,' said a police statement.

Should cracks or other structural defects develop, residents or occupants in public housing estates should call the Housing Board's Essential Maintenance Service Unit's 24-Hour Hotline at 6275 5555 or 6354 3333 while those in private buildings should call the Building & Construction Authority at 6325 7191 or 6325 7393.

EMPRR Global Summit (24-25 November 2009, Grande Copthorne Waterfront) will highlight preparedness and response tactics from global responders to ensure safety of property, lives and continuity of your business.

For more info, call 6844 2080 or info@arcmediaglobal.com

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Building resilience in rapidly urbanising Asia: International conference to bring back your business back to normalcy if there’s a crisis

Building resilience in rapidly urbanising Asia: International conference to bring back your business back to normalcy if there’s a crisis

• When your hotel is bombed, how long would it take for your emergency team to save your guests?
• Are you sure that your crisis management plan will work if a crises happen?
• How long will it take you to reach everyone on the management committee if your organisation had a crisis at 2.00pm on a public holiday?
• How much information would your organisation give out if it has a crisis?

Hypothetical sounding, but didn’t it seem like a hoax when someone told you that the WTC Twin Towers has fallen?

Crises occur without clues or warning signals, except perhaps the early seismic monitoring and scientific surveillance for earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Everyone can still recall the trauma of recent major crises – such as the LA forest fire threatening thousands of homes, Victorian bushfires killing 200 in Australia, the Jakarta bomb attacks at two major hotels, the Timor Sea oil spill, and the Morakot typhoon – all affecting thousands of businesses, thousands of lives, and millions of dollars in economic costs. What would you have done if this happened to you instead of them?

Since the 9/11 attacks in New York and amid increasing threats from terrorism and climate change, it seems, If you’re not prepared for all threats, you’re not prepared for any.

70% of Fortune 500 organisations have increased purchases in managing organisational disasters and CEOs of Inc’s top 100 list have already put disaster preparedness, response and recovery at the top of their boardroom agendas.

With over 50% of the total world’s disasters happening in Asia, RESILIENCE means that your organisation is ready to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from organisational threats, whether from Acts of God, mechanical problems, human errors or management decisions (or indecision).

Studies show that RESILIENCE even substantially increases your bottomline and protects your business by at least 50%!

By investing in EMPRR 2009 Global Summit, you will receive the following benefits:

• You will UPDATE your crisis management, organisational response and business continuity manual from multi-hazard, multi-sector and full cycle approaches, allowing you to restore order and business continuity, protect organisational assets from further damage and protect and ensure safety of people

• You will IMPROVE your response time, organisational notification system, disclosure and information channels, whilst not compromising vital or confidential resources and maintain reputation and credibility internally and externally

• You will BUILD rapport with various partners and service providers and focus your efforts on resources and infrastructure you need to contain and ensure that the crisis will discontinue and not escalate or spread further and bring back your business to normalcy

Top organisations and businesses have already joined us including:

Singapore Civil Defence Force • Department of Transportation and Communications • Ministry of Defence • New South Wales
Fire Brigades • Siam Bank • Ben-Gurion International Airport • Communicable Disease Control • Toronto Public Health • PTIT Focus • Blue Energy • ConocoPhillips • Ministry of Home Affairs • International Association of Emergency Managers • National Science & Technology Center for Disaster Recovery • GVK Emergency Management Research Institute • Philippine Coast Guard • Risk First Consultancy • Business Continuity Institute • BCP Asia • IAEM CEM Commission • Nepal Center for Disaster Management • ASEAN Secretariat • Canadian Red Cross • Kyoto University • Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority • APEC • Asian Disaster Preparedness Center • Aviation
Security Company Limited • Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation • French Regional Police Attache • Singapore Contractors Association Limited • Independent Power Producers Forum • Utilis S.A.S • Kyoto University • White & Case • Airports Council International • Forbes Calamity Prevention • many more...

EMPRR 2009 Global Summit is your rare opportunity to benefit from a content –rich program that links emergency management (response), business continuity and facilities management, tackling how to save lives, secure your property and information and bring back your organisation to normalcy in the event of a disaster or crises.

You only need to invest SGD 1,499 to benefit from a full 2-day conference plus 3 workshops on crisis management for leaders, BCM testing and setting up a crisis command post. Plus – just add SGD 600 and you can benefit from an additional full-day BCM Implementation Seminar, in line with the BCI’s GPG and BSI’s PAS56, conducted by the Business Continuity Institute and receive your certificate of completion. Visit our website at www.arcmediaglobal.com/emprr09.

Sharpen your saw and ensure that your business keeps functioning even through the worst of crises! Call us on +65 6844 2080 or email info@arcmediaglobal.com to register.

Warmest regards,

Paul Adams, Marketing Manager