Disaster Recovery Journal- Volume 18, Issue 3 - Summer 2005 Issue

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DISASTER RECOVERY
JOURNAL

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St. Louis, MO 63151
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EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER
Richard L. Arnold, CBCP
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jon Seals
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SENIOR EDITOR
Janette Ballman
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Ed Pearce, CBCP
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ASSISTANT EDITOR
Pamela Clifton
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COPY EDITORS
Jim Hammill, CBCP
Richard Sandhofer
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ADVERTISING
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Corporate

President/CEO
Richard L. Arnold, CBCP
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Vice President
Robert Arnold
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CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Patti Fitzgerald, CBCP
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CONFERENCE REGISTRAR
Merce Knese
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CIRCULATION
Laura Baugh
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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Mike Croy, Forsythe
Jeff Dato, MBCP, KPMG
John Jackson
Edward S. Devlin, E.S. Devlin & Associates
James Hammill, CBCP, JMH Consulting Inc.
Pat McAnally, SunGard Availability Services
Brian Turley, Strohl Systems
Belinda Wilson, Hewlett-Packard

INTERNATIONAL
CONTACTS
England: Thom Hetherington
Business Continuity
Phone: 0161-237-1007
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Japan: Shinji Hosotsubo
Crisis Management and Preparedness Organization
Phone: 03-3519-6270
fax: 03-3519-6255
hosotsubo@cmpo.org
Brazil: José Carlos Ferreira
Disaster Recovery Mercosul
Phone and fax: 011-3666-9506
jocaff@uol.com.br

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PPBI Best Practices Award

By DIEDRICH TOWNE, CBCP

Private and Public Businesses, Incorporated (PPBI) commissioned an award to recognize achievement beyond the norms of our industry. The deed of gift for this award reads, “This award may be given to an individual, a corporation, or a public entity, for their exemplary planning, practices, or in response to a critical incident. They must have exhibited the positive aspects of partnerships that work.” This perspective is unique to PPBI and the deed of gift clearly communicates the values that the membership, advisory board and the board of directors believe are critical to successful planning and essential in your recovery.
As I offered in the most recent PPBI Newsletter, “The tragedies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh … have shown the wonder and organization of partnerships. PPBI is fortunate to have several members of the Board of Directors that have been at the forefront in proving these partnerships work! It is intriguing how involved these PPBI Board Members are in developing partnerships and in solutions that make the difference. Brent Woodworth leads the IBM Crisis Response team and members of that team Dr. Tom Phelan, Mike Braham and Mark Prutsalis have been working on the logistics of aid and support in South Asia … .”
At the Spring DRJ conference in Orlando on March 8, 2005, the PPBI Best Practices Award was presented to Brent Woodworth and Dr. Tom Phelan with the following testament as stated in their nomination: “Dr. Tom Phelan and Brent Woodworth, are the recipients of this award … it is offered that they accept this award as the stewards for those thousands of responders, donors and their team members who supported their journey to … assist with the tsunami disaster relief; a big responsibility. As members of the IBM Crisis Response Team, they helped develop logistics plans and organized response efforts for victims of this calamity with special concern for trauma and the protection of children. They provided the training necessary for volunteers to carry on these response plans … . As stewards … it should be noted that they not only talk the talk on partnerships, they can capably handle the heat of crisis management and walk the walk with genuine zeal! They exhibit their participation and leadership in … PPBI, Global Partnerships for Preparedness, and in addition they make ideal ambassadors for their respective companies! Brent and Tom suffer from a willingness to share …We thank these gentlemen and recognize their dedication… .”
This award, presented at the general session with many of the PPBI Board of Directors on the dais; Marianne Guinee, CFO and vice chairperson; John Jackson, strategic planner; Peter Laz from the training committee; and Gary Villenueve the membership chairman all offered their congratulations. It was quite a surprise for Brent and Tom and the weight of this stewardship a serious responsibility which by itself was quite humbling. I can not think of a more deserving and responsible team with which to work.
PPBI encourages nominations for future best practices awards. If you know someone in your community who has exhibited exemplary performance in planning or when faced with a disaster, please send nominations to PPBImail@twcny.rr.com, and include a detailed description of the meritorious performance, a brief summary of the disaster incident, and contact information for both the person making the nomination and the candidate for the award.
If you read this column you already know a lot about PPBI and how we encourage the building of partnerships that make a difference when you critically need it! Learn how to build and maintain those relationships with us in San Diego at the DRJ Fall World Conference. The pre-conference class is titled Train the Trainer – Fundamentals of BCP and Emergency Management Practices; this is the one to take home for your staff. Our post conference class is a request from DRJ to present NIMS ICS for Business and Industry, combining the NFPA 1600 standard with NIMS Incident Command System to help you create an easy to adapt ICS model for your compliance efforts. These are professionally designed courses; expect and get a great training experience with PPBI.
PPBI will also sponsor and present Incident Management Plan Assessment, a highly interactive workshop on Sunday afternoon from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. This workshop will teach you how to use industry standards and the PPBI Incident Management Plan Maturity Model to measure and assess the maturity of your plans. Please join us for this workshop; the tools alone are worth your time!
All of our PPBI certified courses and workshops are available at your location. Contact us at PPBImail@twcny.rr.com to inquire about our education solutions tailored to your location and requirements. Partner with the experts at PPBI!

Deidrich Towne, CBCP, is security and disaster recovery manager for NationalGrid, USA and serves as chairman of the PPBI Board of Directors.