DISASTERS FROM HURRICANE SUCH AS KATRINA, IRENE, AND SANDY: EXAMPLES OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN’S UNFAMILIARITY. FAR FROM THE RHETORIC, CLOSER TO THE REALITY

The objective of a Business Continuity Plan is to protect any space. Space is defined as the interaction between people with their families, communities, assets, organizations and institutions such as authorities, schools, churches, clubs, market, financial, social, political, and economic system and its developments and more. Sometimes this is hard to understand for some leaders.

The interest of a Business Continuity Plan is understanding community’s vulnerability, evaluating risk analysis, defining of risk evaluation, and establishing risk avoidance measures to prevent or reduce negative effects for safety. Also, is concerning with assets and its loss potentials

New York State (NYS) and New Jersey State (NJS) governments; also local governments such as New York City (NYC) Jersey City (JCNJ) governments, similar to governments in other places around the world has been written laws, rules, codes and more for prevention, mitigation, response, and recuperation stages during a negative event through their Emergency Offices. Maybe, they were following public policy in a gross line from the national governments. However, those theoretical documents are not enough if employees and common people do not read, synthesize, analyze, evaluate, and create from them similar a cognitive process.

Since 1970s through National Science Foundation researches have been supporting in order to motivate participation of different professionals during the analysis of natural, social, and technological hazards. However, the low interests from common people have been distressing for several years. Some people believed that is expensive to reduce risk while some people believed that is better waiting disasters for collecting money from the federal budget. It is the modern dilemma.