Recent Activities It has been a long time since I posted something to my blog and I apologize. I have been very busy with building my practice in emergency and continuity management. With all the attention to recent disasters around the world and the continuous severe weather conditions, it has brought organizations to their knees…
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Recent Activities Lisa is currently working on the speaker line-up for the upcoming EPICC Seminar in Victoria, scheduled for Friday October 3, 2014. This is the 10th annual seminar and the theme this year is “Unlocking the value of emergency & continuity management programs”. We also may have a speaker from Alberta discussing the 2013…
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I have been in this industry since 1991 when it was known as Disaster Recovery Planning, and since then it has evolved to Business Continuity Planning (BCP), or even better Business Continuity Management (BCM).  Just lately I have heard the rumblings of Business Resiliency and Continuity of Operations. What surprises me… well maybe not, is…
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There’s a lot of buzz around about standards in the industry right now.  So I thought it may be worthwhile to take a closer look at what we have in Canada.  I may be bias as I was a member of the technical committee for Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z1600, a standard for Emergency Management…
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September 26th, With the Q4 Winter season fast approaching, there are some things business’s are doing to tie up their fiscal years end. Numerous critical files are being stored, some in paper form and others digitally. Much of it for Accounting purposes. Many of us like to leave the office around this time of year.…
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Ms. Lisa Benini is currently scheduled to teach the following courses in 2013, however if you are interested in either of these courses, please seek further details from the course provider: DRI Canada – BCLE 2000 Business Continuity Management – Accelerated on January 7-11, 2013 in Vancouver, BC (register at www.dri.ca) DRI Canada – BCLE…
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The following events should be noted: The EPICC Forum will not be held in 2013 in Vancouver, as EPICC Board of Directors is currently evaluating the format based on recent survey(http://www.epicc.org) EPICC Seminar in Victoria, BC is scheduled for September 2013 (date to be determined at a later date so stay posted or go to…
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CSA Z1600 – Up for Revision Ms. Benini attended the CSA Z1600 Technical committee meeting in Calgary on November 19-22, 2012. This meeting focused on reviewing the public review comments for the CSA Z1600 Standard for Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs. The new release for this standard is scheduled for spring 2013. Here’s the…
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