BC006_English: Natural Disaster Management and Business Continuity

Natural Disasters can have catastrophic impacts upon an organization’s people, business and operational interests, assets and facilities, as well as on its reputation. Planning for predictable or unpredictable natural disaster events strengthens the organization’s resiliency to them. The ability to prepare and prevent, respond to and manage, and then transition and recover from such events, whether the direct risk from the disaster itself, or secondary risks from flooding, disease of social unrest and the absence of effective rule of law is critical for effective business continuity to succeed. This course will help leaders at all levels in understanding the strategic, operational and tactical level needs when facing potential natural disaster situations, and the cascading impacts which result from these. Natural disaster situations require an integrated management approach in order to meet the varied complexities of responding to such events. HR PHR Credits (Functional Area 6): This course supports Human Resource professionals in developing effective business continuity policies, plans and protocols, communicating and training the workforce on security and safety plans and policies, as well as business continuity and disaster recovery plans, evacuation management, manage workplace safety and security risks, and empower organizational incident and emergency response measures and associated plans. This training also protects the organization from loss and liability, develops leadership concepts and applications, and supports risk management techniques. PLEASE REMEMBER - Some modules offer language subtitles. Click the 'CC' button on the video player controls to select your language. WEAK INTERNET – If you have limited bandwidth, please ensure you select the lowest quality setting under the gear icon in the video player controls.