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Donald L. Schmidt's
Published Books
Don Schmidt has coauthored, edited, or contributed to the following books, which have been published over the past seven years. Click on the title to check out the publisher's website. If you would like to review articles, interviews, and speeches by Don Schmidt, click on the links at the top right of the screen.
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Implementing NFPA 1600 National Preparedness Standard This handbook, published by the National Fire Protection Association, defines a process for development of an emergency management and business continuity program in accordance with NFPA 1600, "Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs." The handbook includes detailed guidance, forms, checklists, references, and technical illustrations for plan development, implementation, review, and updating.
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Business at Risk: How to Assess, Mitigate and Respond to
Terrorist Threats Business At Risk's systematic approach takes you step-by-step through the five key areas of managing terrorist threats: assessment, mitigation, response, recovery and financing the risk. The types of terrorism threats are identified and a methodology for assessing vulnerability and conducting a business impact analysis is presented. Guidance on the development and implementation of emergency response and business continuity plans and procedures is presented. The balance of the book deals with risk financing techniques.
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Tools
& Techniques of Risk Management and Insurance This comprehensive book provides the tools and techniques needed to assess, quantify, and address the risks that all businesses face. It explains the framework of the risk management process, including a discussion of the latest thinking on Enterprise Risk Management. It then discusses the tools that may be used to address business exposures.
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McGraw
Hill Homeland Security Handbook The first all-inclusive reference to provide a fundamental understanding of critical homeland security issues now faced by the United States. More than seventy articles written by leaders in every area of U.S. life, from senators to captains of industry to key figures in intelligence, military and academia, combine expert insights with prescriptive strategies and guidance to help security professionals more effectively manage the risk of terrorism.
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Fire Protection Handbook®, 2008 Edition This two volume handbook, published in 2008 by the National Fire Protection Association, includes considerable new material including a chapter on emergency management and business continuity authored by Donald L. Schmidt. |
