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Scott Davis To Testify to Joint Session of PA Legislature on PA Breach Notification Law

Scott R. Davis

474, No 94) passed on December 22, 2005 and became law on June 19, 2006. Currently, Pennsylvania has the third oldest breach notification law on record, only Minnesota and Wisconsin are older. The Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (P.L.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Since 2005 when the World Health Organisation started to advocate serious viral disease planning the United Kingdom ran or participated in nine major simulation exercises on pandemics, some of them pan-European initiatives. I taught pandemic preparedness on the basis of his example for the next 12 years. Then it came to pass.

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Implementing the HFA at a local level in Europe: Towards the Post-2015 Framework 

Crisis Response Journal

Patrícia Pires provides an overview local level resilience in Europe, and how priorities set under the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 should be continued and evolve in the future. By Patrícia Pires

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CitizenAid app and guide designed to inform the public how to act in a terror attack 

Crisis Response Journal

Since the London bombings on July 7, 2005, we have seen an increase in both the number and types of attacks occurring where marauding or vehicle-based attacks target civili In the UK, the current threat level from international terrorism is set as severe.

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A Review of 2022 Disasters

Recovery Diva

behind Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Harvey (2017). Hurricane Ian was the most costly event of 2022 at $112.9 billion, and ranks as the third most costly hurricane on record (since 1980) for the U.S.,

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

One of the most intransigent problems with the predecessor of the Sendai Framework, Hyogo Framework for Action, 2005-2015, was its resolute reliance on a 'top-down' approach. UNISDR 2005. Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities. Surminski and J-A. Linnerooth-Bayer (eds) 2019.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). Meanwhile, in Britain, there were shortcomings in the response to the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash, particularly in the treatment of the survivors.