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Share the Wealth…
Industry Associations Bulletin Board
August 2005
NEWS AND EVENTS
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ORGANIZATION SPOTLIGHT
Mid Atlantic Disaster Recovery Association, Inc.
It sure has been a hot summer, lightning storms abound, terrorists have
struck Great Britain. Never has Business Continuity been more important.
A fact that is driven home with each terrorist attack and approaching
hurricane. In the 1st meeting of 2005, MADRA fabricated a mock organization
called Centurion Investments, and discussed the need for management awareness
and business impact analysis. At the 2nd meeting, three teams were formed
and a tabletop Business Impact Analysis (BIA) of Centurion was conducted
to identify the risks. A BIA document will be created from the notes of
that meeting, and posted on the website just prior to the next meeting,
as will a draft of a BC plan. The 3rd meeting will take up where they
left off in the BCP lifecycle, with a review of what has occurred to date,
the BIA and the draft plan. This will be followed by a working session
to flesh out the plan and look at ways to test the plan. Please join them
at MADRA's 48th quarterly meeting, August 18, at the Maryland Fire and
Rescue Institute Training Academy, 4500 Paint Branch Parkway, College
Park MD 20743 to continue the saga. Directions are on the www.madra.org
website. The 4th meeting will be held on November 3rd, and will be an
all day session starting with what was developed during the prior sessions
and an exercise plan template. The rest of the day will be used to develop
a test plan and to conduct a tabletop exercise of the BCP, with a few
wrinkles from the real world thrown in. The day will culminate with a
lessons learned session critiquing the activities of the day and the entire
4 sessions of the BCP lifecycle series.
NEW ADDITIONS
ICISF
The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc. (ICISF) is
a non-profit, open membership foundation dedicated to the prevention and
mitigation of disabling stress through the provision of:
Education, training and support services for all Emergency Services professions;
Continuing education and training in Emergency Mental Health Services
for Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers and Licensed Professional
Counselors; and Consultation in the establishment of Crisis and Disaster
Response Programs for varied organizations and communities worldwide.
For more information, go to www.icisf.org
The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Alliance is a group of professional
and advocacy organizations that have joined forces to provide educational
resources to individuals diagnosed with PTSD and their loved ones; those
at risk for developing PTSD; and medical, healthcare and other frontline
professionals. For more, please visit: www.ptsdalliance.org
American Red Cross
Each year, the American Red Cross responds immediately to more than 67,000
disasters, including house or apartment fires (the majority of disaster
responses), hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous materials
spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made
disasters. For more info: www.redcross.org
POSTINGS FROM PREVIOUS WEEKS
National Sheriff's Association
The National Sheriffs' Association, now in its sixty-second year of serving
the law enforcement/criminal justice professionals of the nation, is a
non-profit organization dedicated to raising the level of professionalism
among those in the criminal justice field. Through the years, NSA has
been involved in numerous programs to enable sheriffs, their deputies,
chiefs of police, and others in the field of criminal justice to perform
their jobs in the best possible manner and to better serve the people
of their city/counties or jurisdictions. For more information click www.sheriffs.org
HTCIA
HTCIA (High Technology Crime Investigation Association), the world's largest
organization for high technology crime investigators, is designed to encourage,
promote, aid and affect the voluntary interchange of data, information,
experience, ideas and knowledge about methods, processes, and techniques
relating to investigations and security in advanced technologies among
its membership. The HTCIA includes 37 active chapters worldwide. For more
information on HTCIA, visit www.htcia.org
PRISM
PRISM International (Professional Records & Information Services Management)
is the not-for-profit trade association for companies that provide their
clients with protection, access, retention, storage and disposal of their
vital information. Association members receive unmatched industry information,
education and a global network from which to gain the tools necessary
to provide the highest quality of service to their clients.
The business of information management is becoming
more and more complex. That's why it is important to consider alternative
methods for your company's information management operation.
One alternative method used by more and more
businesses is to contract with a commercial information management company
like those represented by the members of PRISM International.
An increased demand for information means an
increased demand for space and manpower. Adding a PRISM International
member company to your information management team allows you to control
costs, use space more efficiently, provide security for your company's
vital information assets, and much more. You receive the services you
need when you want them and your information center staff is available
to you any day, at any hour to meet the unplanned events that occur in
business. For more information on PRISM, visit www.prismintl.org
The Applied Technology Council
ATC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation established in 1973 through
the efforts of the Structural Engineers Association of California. ATC's
mission is to develop and promote state-of-the-art, user-friendly engineering
resources and applications for use in mitigating the effects of natural
and other hazards on the built environment. ATC also identifies and encourages
needed research and develops consensus opinions on structural engineering
issues in a nonproprietary format. ATC thereby fulfills a unique role
in funded information transfer.
ATC is guided by a Board of Directors consisting
of representatives appointed by the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, the Structural
Engineers Association of California, the Western Council of Structural
Engineers Associations, and four at-large representatives concerned with
the practice of structural engineering. Each director serves a three-year
term. For more information on ATC, click www.atcouncil.org/purpose.shtml
ReddiNet®
Emergency medical professionals designed ReddiNet® to address real world
needs. ReddiNet utilizes versatile, established technology to deploy robust
communication networks linking hospitals, Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
agencies, first responders and public health officials. It is the only
system to employ both radio and phone channels for highly fault tolerant
emergency communications.
Today, ReddiNet is extensively used in nearly
250 emergency response organizations throughout 17 California counties,
including Los Angeles and Orange counties. ReddiNet carries critical data
and communications for daily operations and crises. To learn more about
Reddinet, click www.reddinet.com
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