Investigates the stages that precede a disaster, switching the emphasis from the role of the emergency services to the responsibilities of management. Investigates three UK disasters: the collapsing colliery tip at the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966; a collision at an automatic railway crossing at...

Weighs up the Y2K problem and the potential for disaster within it. Contends that authorities everywhere seem anxious to reassure everyone that the problem of Y2K may not be as bad as depicted in the media ‐ though this is clearly untrue and, as a degree of self‐deception or...

Elaborates on the Y2K problem from a slightly different kind of view, by examining how, for 2.5 millennia, astronomers, mathematicians and physicists, emperors, popes and politicians, have attempted to dabble in the calendar in differing ways. Looks at the Julian calendar, which was introduced...

Discloses that one of the first organizations to hit the Y2K problem in the UK was the DVLC license authority, which discovered, in 1970, that its 30 expiry dates, over the year 2000 threshold, would not be accepted ‐ other organizations also camp up against this in the UK; in the USA the...

Catalogues, that, since 1995‐96 Y2K projects methodology has been developed and widely adopted and covers the following stages: awareness; assessment; inventory and analysis; planning and scheduling; renovation or remediation; validation through internal testing; implementation; and final...

Puts forward that a major part of international trade and supply chains in the face of Y2K is infrastructure, as the rest of the commerce area will not function otherwise. Briefly highlights some of the important risks and issues: energy infrastructure ‐ electricity, nuclear energy,...

Discusses how some countries (USA, Brazil, Australia, Germany and Canada) have a limited jurisdiction over individual states, provinces or regions of each country. Illustrates healthcare and emergency services and discusses each with regard to the Y2K problem. Wonders whether, because of...

Looks at research by the Gartner Group about the year 2000 problem based on 15,000 companies in 87 countries, and stating the largest impact the Y2K problem would have outside the U SA was on the global economy. Employs 6 Figures to aid in explanation of the points discussed. Confirms the widely...

Concentrates on the millennium bug and states although some countries and areas appear underprepared (in Eastern Europe, Russia, South America, the Middle East, Africa and China) even the supposedly best prepared, such as the USA, seem to be some way off their own stringent targets ‐ even in...

Weighs up the millennium bug (Y2K) and the processes of early technology which have brought this problem to the fore, in particular computer programmers/business managers’ lack of foresight from the 1960s to the present day. Contends that IT specialists and business managers talk different...