You may have seen the government’s new Be Ready campaign asking every household to be ready to manage for three days in an emergency — a power cut, flooding, whatever it turns out to be. Good idea, in principle. But if you actually try to follow the checklist as written, a couple of the numbers
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If you’ve seen headlines this week about a “critical flaw affecting 70% of the internet” and felt your stomach drop slightly, take a breath. Here’s what’s actually going on, in plain English, and four things worth checking today. What actually happened Most websites — including an awful lot that small and medium-sized businesses use without
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If you’ve ever sat in a meeting where someone talked about risk appetite and someone else talked about risk tolerance, and you quietly wondered whether they meant the same thing, you’re in good company. They are two of the most muddled terms in risk management, and I regularly see them used interchangeably in policies and
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This week, Outlook and email hosted through Microsoft went down for hours, for a huge number of people, all over the world. If you tried to send an email on Monday and it just sat there, or you couldn’t log in at all, that wasn’t your computer. That was everyone. The cause turned out to
I’ve spent a chunk of this week reading National Occupational Standards, which is not a sentence I expected to type. It started because I wanted to check how our own loggist training holds up against the Resilience and Emergencies NOS — the official competency framework for this sector. Sensible enough. Then I noticed that the
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What Every Public Inquiry Is Really Telling Us About Logging I’ve been watching the news around the various public inquiries running at the moment, and there’s a pattern that keeps showing up. It’s not really about the disaster, the failure, or the tragedy itself. It’s about what happened afterwards, when someone asks the question that
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If you’ve just been asked to “sort out the BC plan” and you’re not entirely sure what that means, you’re not alone. It’s one of those phrases that gets thrown around in meetings as if everyone already knows what it involves. Most people don’t, and that’s fine — until something goes wrong. A business continuity
What England’s World Cup night can teach you about crisis management (even if, like me, you couldn’t care less about football) I woke up this morning to the news discussing the England match (and the update to my position in the family sweepstake….I still have Norway, France and Spain which I am told is good!).
ISO Spaghetti: Making Sense of the Standards You Keep Hearing About If you work in any kind of professional role, you have probably come across ISO standards. They get mentioned in tender documents, supplier questionnaires, job adverts, and LinkedIn profiles. ISO 27001. ISO 22301. ISO 31000. Sometimes all three in the same sentence. But what
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The loggist: one of the most important roles nobody trains for If you’ve ever sat in an incident management team meeting, you’ll know how quickly things move. Decisions get made, actions get assigned, phones ring, people talk over each other. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, someone is supposed to be keeping
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