National Fire Protection Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

The 2009 Edition of NFPA 70E®, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace® clearly stated that one of the two provided methods be used for the selection of personal protective equipment (PPE) when an arc-flash hazard was present. Although not as plainly stated before 2009, it has been. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Hazard 52

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H. Korkmaz 2021.

Natural Hazard 183

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Fashion 183

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. I have taught it every year since then.

Civil Emergency 130

Civil Emergency Pandemic All-Hazards Logistics 130

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. The current urban form was largely given to it by Norman invaders 940 years ago. It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard 130

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs.

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Pandemic Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Government 52

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. The tendency in research and policy advice is to assume that everyone in power has a strong desire to reduce hazards and threats. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130