Ebola Outbreak – What Should You Know About It?
With the deaths of more than 4,000 people and an estimated 8,000 cases (at this time), the Ebola epidemic has affected three West African countries in particular. But Ebola could also spread to become a pandemic without geographical limitation. There are three key questions to be answered:
Keep Your Pandemic Plan Updated in Case of MERS
Is another pandemic on the way? The generic coronavirus is common everywhere, but this one – Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV – is a particularly virulent strain. It’s also on the move. The World Health Organization published information on May 1st about serious infection of a hospital patient in Egypt who had returned […]
When Business Continuity Means Not Coming to Work
Do you remember those problems in school calculus about the multiplication of bacteria? Throw in a little network effect and you can start to build a crude but realistic model of how illnesses like influenza are propagated throughout an organisation. One person carrying flu germs and coming into contact with other people in an enterprise […]
Pandemics and Business Continuity Plans
Pandemics are good material for Hollywood disaster films. They also feature in various disaster recovery planning documents issued by governments as advice, or by private sector organisations as disaster recovery plans. In true Hollywood style, projected pandemics are often almost too big to be believable. That makes them great subjects of conversation at the coffee […]
OpsCentre offers Recession Buster ‘Quick Start’ Business Continuity Planning
This program is ideal for the small to medium enterprise. It is a fixed fee, fixed scope project that provides a complete solution in the fastest possible timeframe. It can usually be completed within a 1-2 week period. We utilize our consulting experience and best-practice materials to adapt a business continuity strategy to suit your […]
‘Tis the season to get a Pandemic Plan in place
If you didn’t add a Pandemic Plan section to your Business Continuity Plan last time around, now is a great time to get one in place, in the downtime between flu seasons. Now that the Southern Hemisphere has weathered the flu season during the Swine Flu H1N1 pandemic of 2009 it seems like the worse […]