...Sani Mashi; Kabir Idris; Isa Abubakar Yakubu Kazaure Purpose Development of a disaster response plan at a national level is regarded as the best way to undertake country-level disaster management in a well-coordinated manner, involving all stakeholders in well-built networks. Where developed...

...Lee Bosher; Ksenia Chmutina; Dewald van Niekerk Purpose The way that disasters are managed, or indeed mis-managed, is often represented diagrammatically as a “disaster cycle”. The cyclical aspects of the disaster (risk) management concept, comprised of numerous operational phases, have, in recent...

... on their ability to learn from incidents in order to reduce the frequency and severity of errors. Presents information on fallible decisions from the management and cognitive sciences, as well as major disasters (for example Challenger; Herald of Free Enterprise). Describes a framework for increasing...

...Clive Smallman We live in times of increasing dynamism in the natural, social and business environments; with such dynamism comes fear, uncertainty and doubt. As a result the discipline of risk management is in the ascendancy. In a recent influential report the UK’s Royal Society called...

...: the disaster sequence; signals and triggers; the extensive damage to human life and the physical environment; the large economic and social costs; responses to and resolution of crises, among others. After discussing the simple and complex causes of socio‐technical disasters, urges management to learn from...

... the principles of total quality management. Problems with the regulations include the fundamental approach to public inquiries, the problems of objective versus prescriptive regulations, technological bias, the behaviour of management and management systems, communication problems, difficulties with quantitative...

... Business planning Contingency planning Disaster planning Disaster recovery Employees Management At Price Waterhouse, we have been involved in helping a number of businesses with the development of business continuity plans. Our experiences in this field have shown us that many of the classic...