by Annie Searle | Oct 8, 2014 | DRJ Blogs
The Dallas hospital treating the Ebola patient has just announced that the patient died. The Liberian public health and airport security personnel in Liberia did their jobs, and checked outgoing passengers at three distinct checkpoints. But airport personnel can...
by Annie Searle | Jul 29, 2014 | DRJ Blogs
It’s not just that airplanes have been disappearing, or shot down, or that the infectious disease Ebola is out of control in parts of Africa, or that Tel Aviv travel was suspended by major airlines when shelling came too close to the airport . Travel risk has...
by Annie Searle | Jun 23, 2014 | DRJ Blogs
I finished a new article on insider threats a couple of weeks ago. You can find it on our website (www.anniesearle.com) in the Research section, under “Articles by Annie.” I am on my to New York City via Boston tomorrow morning. ...
by Annie Searle | Apr 18, 2014 | DRJ Blogs
It’s been an extraordinary month, with scenarios that include missing planes; another round of deaths at Fort Hood just as the report on lessons learned in the Washington Shipyard was released; a Supreme Court decision that makes us wonder if the justices...
by Annie Searle | Mar 26, 2014 | DRJ Blogs
Mudslide We’ve had two of them in less than a week. First, the fiery news helicopter crash last week. Then last Saturday, a horrific mudslide in Snohomish County, where rescue operations have been too dangerous to be fully...
by Annie Searle | Jan 21, 2014 | DRJ Blogs
Another big storm is bearing down on the East Coast — so I thought I would post a link to FEMA’s winter weather tips. The building blocks of the tips for winter weather apply to those of us in other parts of the country as well. If you keep a...
by Annie Searle | Jan 7, 2014 | DRJ Blogs
Our son was home from The University at Albany for two weeks in December to celebrate the holidays with us. Now he’s back in school experiencing this kind of weather. Albany, N.Y. snow shoveler And it’s bitterly cold, with the wind...
by Annie Searle | Dec 5, 2013 | DRJ Blogs
Thanksgiving is the day we celebrate the day when Native Americans sat down with Pilgrims and ate together. For some of us, it’s a better holiday than all the others combined because we reflect upon just how much we have to be thankful for. Team Rubicon in...
by Annie Searle | Oct 28, 2013 | DRJ Blogs
Events near the end of October have a way of forcing me to choose among equally enticing prospects. Rather than attend this year’s Executive Women’s Forum in Scottsdale, I flew to Reno to help present the 2013 Hall of Fame Awards & Gala for the...
by Annie Searle | Oct 11, 2013 | DRJ Blogs
In yesterday’s operational risk seminar that I teach at the University of Washington, our guest speaker was UW seismologist and information scientist Bill Steele. In the first hour of class, he used a presentation he had recently made to state government...
by Annie Searle | Oct 4, 2013 | MyBlog
We might argue with any number of Nietzsche’s philosophical tenants, but this statement seems to define not only the human condition but also the quality of resilience that we aspire to in the plans and programs we build around business continuity and disaster...
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