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
• 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
Friday, July 17, 2009
Jet didn't break up mid-air
BEA director Paul-Louis Arslanian has warned that the investigation will be 'long and difficult' and the failure to find the flight recorders has complicated the probe. Still, investigators have been scrutinizing some 600 pieces of debris recovered from the crash zone for any clue as to what brought down the plane as it flew through turbulence over the Alantic. |
'The plane appears to have hit the surface of the water in flying position with a strong vertical acceleration,' he added, explaining that the plane hit the water belly-first.
The crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris was the worst in Air France's history.
There had been speculation that problems with the Airbus' airspeed sensors, or pitot tubes, may have caused the plane to stall or fly dangerously fast, causing a high-altitude breakup.
Brazil decided on June 27 to call off the recovery operation but France has maintained its nuclear submarine, research vessel and other boats in the area on a final hunt for the black boxes.
The BEA lead investigator said the search would continue until July 10.
The homing beacons on the flight recorders emit signals for about one month after the crash and the BEA hopes that they will have a longer-than-usual shelf life.
Investigators have been scrutinising some 640 pieces of debris recovered from the crash zone for any clue as to what brought down the plane as it flew through turbulence over the Alantic.
Autopsies were being performed on 51 bodies pulled from the disaster area, some 1,000 kilometres off Brazil's coast. -- AFP