The Noggin Blog

IRAP enables Australian government agencies and bodies to store and run highly sensitive data at the Protected security level.

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Topics: Risk Management, Emergency Management, Government, Public Safety, Incident Management, Compliance, Security Management, Safety Management

 

Implementing asset management principles enables PCBUs (Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking) to quickly realize new value from existing assets. But those same principles also yield unexpected benefits for Safety programs, as well. Not sure what they are, or how to accrue them?

Topics: Safety Management, Safety Newsletter

Costs balloon in a heavily regulated space

Topics: Utilities, Safety Management, Safety Newsletter

 

Topics: Crisis Management, Emergency Response, Crisis Plans, Crisis Planning, Crisis Newsletter

When surveyed, senior facilities managers admit that their respective organizations are unprepared to deal with the security risk to the built environment. That is even as risk, including threats like workplace violence, environmental incidents, and active shooter incidents, continues to grow.

Topics: Safety Management, Safety Newsletter, Integrated Safety and Security

 

In this modern, heavily mediatized age, we’ve become painfully familiar with the most common, crisis communications gaffes: the public announcements that are quickly back tracked; the press conferences more notable for the (mis)behavior of officials than the content of the statements made; and the live interviews of angry families deriding a lack of candor and communication from officials.

Topics: Crisis Management, Noggin Crisis, Crisis Plans

 

According to CNBC reporting, the average number of yearly billion-dollar disasters totalled 15 events from 2016 to 2018. The average yearly total for the previous 38 years: 6.2 events. And this year’s disaster season, with its deadly storms, heatwaves, and, of course, wildfires, is all but certainly trending in the wrong direction.

Topics: Emergency Management, Emergency Response, Resource Management, Emergency Management Newsletter

In 2018 corporate security incidents came for everyone. Unfortunately, 2019 proved no better. But despite the fact that corporate security incidents invite public scrutiny more swiftly than ever, the number of organizations with an appropriate (security) crisis management and communications plan remains stuck around the 50 percent mark worldwide.

Topics: Security Management, Integrated Safety and Security

 

From the Christchurch terrorist attack to the Australian bushfires, crises this year increased in scale and impact. What does this troubling trend portend for organisational resilience in 2020 and beyond?

Topics: Partner Newsletter

 

Safety teams have long understood employee health and safety to lie at the intersection of health protection and promotion. In turn, those teams have developed sophisticated programs to enhance worker wellbeing and prevent injury and illness.

Topics: Work Health Safety, Safety Management, Safety Newsletter