On 6th November 2004 the 17:35 Paddington to Penzance train was derailed when it struck a parked car on a level crossing at Ufton Nervet, near Reading. Tragically the car driver, train driver and four passengers died at the scene; whilst another passenger died a few hours later in hospital. Fortunately though, this was the […]
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Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2019 ends with the news today that Boeing has completed an upgrade to the 737 Max software, following the fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Obviously the most important issue in all of this is the 346 lives that were tragically lost in the two crashes; but the question we
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The human impact of the earthquakes on Thursday and Saturday in Japan’s Kumamoto Region was immediately obvious with at least 41 people dead, homes destroyed and public services severely disrupted. It is only now though, as we move into the next working week, that the business impact begins to become apparent. Sony, Honda and Toyota
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This Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the Manchester Air Disaster, when 53 people lost their lives as a result of a British Airtours jet catching fire during take-off. Whilst this was a terrible tragedy in its own right, together with the Bradford Stadium fire a few months earlier, it also marks the start of
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Yesterday I queried if the 7 July bombings could really be considered a “black swan” event. In fact, much of the impressive IT resilience that firms demonstrated in the aftermath of the bombings was a direct result of steps taken in response to the Provisional IRA bombings of the Baltic Exchange (1992) and Bishopsgate (1993).
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Yesterday I commented that, at least from my own personal experience, the 7 July bombings had not led to increased interest in business continuity. That is not to say that the attacks did not have a lasting impact on the business continuity industry; and in today’s article I want to look at how the terrible
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The forthcoming tenth anniversary of the 7 July bombings in London has attracted much media coverage. Quite rightly, the TV and press have focused on the plight of survivors and the families of those who were killed; however, the focus of this series of articles is on what the lasting legacy has been for business
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