Table of Contents

List of Figures; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The MV 'Full City' Incident - Norway's Worst Ever Oil Spill; 3. Barings Bank Collapse; 4. Northgate Information Solutions, a victim of the Buncefield Oil Depot Disaster; 5. The Love Parade: Dusseldorf 2010; 6. Herald of Free Enterprise; 7. The Aztec Chemical Explosion, the biggest blaze in Cheshire for 35 Years; 8. Piper Alpha and Alexander L. Kielland: A comparison of two North Sea Tragedies; 9. Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster; 10. The Devastating Effect of the SARS Pandemic on the Tourist Industry; 11. Toyota Vehicle Recall; 12. The Gloucestershire Flooding, 2007; 13. Closing the European Airspace: Eyjafjallajokull and the Volcanic Ash Cloud; 14. The Asta Train Accident, Norway, January 2000; 15. A Tale of Three Cities: the Bombing of Madrid (2004), London (2005) and Glasgow (2007); 16. Hurricane Katrina; 17. Arriva Malta: Business Continuity within a Change Management Programme; 18. The Devil is in the Detail; Glossary; Works Cited.

About the Author

A Member of the Business Continuity Institute and an Approved BCI Instructor, Robert A. Clark is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Member of the Security Institute. His career includes 15 years with IBM and 11 years with Fujitsu Services working with clients on BCM related assignments. He is now a freelance Business Continuity Consultant at www.bcm-consultancy.com

Reviews

"I am constantly amazed by the number of executives who dismiss potential disasters as being too unlikely to consider, or who put off dealing with known risks because they have other things to worry about. This book is full of these people, and what happens in the case studies provides ample evidence to counter their complacency." Martin Caddick. LLB MBA MBCI MIOR