This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. Most of us are aware of the recent scandal involving Facebook and political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, wherein the latter company obtained data from up to 87 million Facebook users and, in turn, built profiles of individual voters and their political preferences to (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. Last week, the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) confirmed interruptions in its ability to fully install positive train control (PTC) across its system by the end of the year. Newsday reported that the LIRR system, which is a unit of the Metropolitan Transportation (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Check out more from Risk Management on:Disaster PreparednessDisaster RecoveryNatural Catastrophes Although weather is often unpredictable and always uncontrollable, businesses can go a long way toward mitigating damage with careful preparation. According to a 2018 report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife, however, (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Check out more from Risk Management on:Disaster PreparednessDisaster RecoveryNatural Catastrophes Although weather is often unpredictable and always uncontrollable, businesses can go a long way toward mitigating damage with careful preparation. According to a 2018 report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife, however, (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Check out more from Risk Management on:Disaster PreparednessDisaster RecoveryNatural Catastrophes Companies routinely go to great lengths to increase productivity and efficiency in pursuit of cost savings, higher profits and other important business goals. Yet many organizations still fail to plan and prepare properly ahead (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Check out more from Risk Management on:Disaster PreparednessDisaster RecoveryNatural Catastrophes Companies routinely go to great lengths to increase productivity and efficiency in pursuit of cost savings, higher profits and other important business goals. Yet many organizations still fail to plan and prepare properly ahead (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Whether natural or man-made, disasters are life-changing events that can leave lasting effects on all involved. While disaster plans rightfully focus on helping the victims of a crisis, there is another aspect of recovery to consider: Who provides support to the people on (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. On the weekend of March 3, equipment failures at two unrelated fertility clinics in California and Ohio damaged or destroyed thousands of frozen eggs and embryos. At the Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco, an embryologist checking on the cryogenic tanks that housed (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. On a recent list of the fastest growing American cities, Nashville jumped from 20th to 7th in a year. There are more than 210 active construction projects in the downtown core alone. We are hardly alone. Denver, New York, Charlotte, Atlanta and more (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. SAN ANTONIO – When the White House declared opioid use a national Public Health Emergency under federal law in 2017, businesses began reviewing their policies and making efforts to curb their employees’ abuse of the drug in its prescribed form. This escalating risk (more…)