Radian Compliance Management Services

When disaster strikes, it comes without warning, without expectation, without limits, and often without any preparation. Since 9/11, the issues of business interruption and recovery have been brought to the forefront for both corporate and emergency response organizations.

What has become evident is the need for corporate leaders to develop comprehensive all-hazard emergency plans that rise above simple business continuity/data protection procedures. Emergency responders need to gain a better understanding of the impact that business interruption has on the community and the importance of business recovery to the local economy.

The responsibility falls on key corporate officials and their business restoration support contractors to know how to coordinate with first responders, so they can resolve critical issues such as access and safety. Each must know how the other operates. Each must know what needs the other must fulfill. Further, the threat of terrorism has added a new dimension to that interaction: criminal investigation of the event. Every terrorist incident is first and foremost a crime scene; that status changes the way in which emergency personnel respond to the incident and will likely impact the ability to immediately restore the facilities to a greater degree. 

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