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Response Planning
Eugene Tucker, CPP, CFE, CBCP
Contributing author
‘‘Worrying about possible disasters can cause many sleepless nights for senior
executives and board members, and prompt the creation of comprehensive
contingency plans to help ease these worries. It is important, however, to
maintain a delicate balance between over planning for events that may never
happen and being adequately prepared to respond if disaster does strike.’’
—Jack E. Cox and Robert L. Barber, ‘‘Practical Contingency Plann ing,’’
Risk Management Magazine, March 1996
Before September 11, 2001, most of our attention to emergency response was geared
toward handling first