Roberta Witty

The need for supply chain resilience could push still-unready organizations to attain business continuity management program certifications. Monitor the PS-Prep program and associated standards to ensure you are prepared.  

On 15 October 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced three proposed standards that would be used by the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program (PS-Prep) program, which enables private-sector businesses, nonprofit organizations and universities to receive emergency preparedness certification. The public can submit comments on the standards and the program at www.regulations.gov in Docket ID FEMA-2008-0017 by 15 November 2009.

Improving recovery capabilities will benefit all businesses and humankind globally. But certification is not a guarantee that an organization can recover from a disaster. Organizations should go slowly when starting down the path toward organization certification.

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