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| Home / Risk Glossary / Reciprocal Agreement | 12 March, 2010 | |
Reciprocal Agreement (Definition)A reciprocal agreement is an agreement made by two or more companies to use each other's resources during a disaster. Care should be taken with reciprocal agreements to ensure that the businesses concerned are unlikely to be affected by the same disaster. For example, businesses in close proximity may all be affected by the same evacuation order, area power outage, telecommunications loss, flood, etc. A Reciprocal Agreement may also be known as a Consortium Agreement. Risky Thinking Newsletter Are you responsible for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Risk Management in your organization? Then you may wish to receive a free subscription to the the monthly Risky Thinking Newsletter. It contains news, opinions and articles of interest to people working in these areas. View a sample issue, or click here to subscribe. Recent articles have included: Is your business continuity plan just gathering dust on a shelf somewhere? There are various places parts of your plan should be.
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