Why emergency risk plans may be failing communities

“The issue starts with how risk assessments are structured,” Wietrzynski says. “When companies revisit business continuity practices, they’re looking for threats of various nature, but they don’t necessarily reflect on how their operations can affect the community.” 

Companies often ask how disasters will impact their business—but not how their disrupted operations might harm the environment. That lack of alignment isn’t a minor oversight, she argues. It’s a structural flaw. 

“You might be like, okay, if our business suffered from a wildfire, what would that mean for business continuity? But at the same time, you don’t really marry the exercise of ‘How does that cause a…