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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The 2019 report is accompanied by an executive summary called GAR Distilled. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. DRR is thus now truly mainstreamed at the global level. The 'should ratio'.

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The Hazard of Mixing Chemicals

National Fire Protection Association

On a much larger scale, in May 2019, a chemical explosion occurred at a facility in Waukegan, Illinois, causing multiple deaths, injuries, and damage to multiple buildings. For example, many chemicals form strong acids or bases when mixed with water, thus introducing a chemical burn hazard.

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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

In fact, FEMA noted that “the number of annual disasters that [they] have managed has tripled in the past ten years and highlights the pivotal moment that climate change and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have created.”.

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Serious Trouble With the National Flood Ins. Program

Recovery Diva

“The upshot is that FEMA flood hazard maps that determine coverage today rely on outdated information so inaccurate that more than 40 percent of NFIP claims made from 2017 to 2019 were for properties outside official flood hazard zones or in areas the agency had not mapped at all.”

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Emergency Management on the Southwest Border

Disaster Zone Podcast

What makes it much more challenging is the mass migration of immigrants that has occurred in recent years, beginning in 2019. Jorge also highlights his belief that emergency management is moving to a stage of our profession where we need to be transitioning from an “all-hazards” approach to one that is “all-crisis.”

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Don’t let combustible dust wreak havoc on your facility and operations – take advantage of new NFPA training and other relevant resources

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA has released a new three-part NFPA 652 Combustible Dust (2019) Online Training Series to help different professionals understand, access, and address potential industrial hazards onsite at their facilities. NFPA 652 requires a dust hazard analysis (DHA) to be. [[ This is a content summary only.

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$10 Billion Dollar Disaster Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Disaster Zone Podcast

just weeks after he took office in 2019 and has since been focused on managing upwards of $10 billion in federal disaster recovery funds for well over a thousand projects big and small. Williams was tapped by Governor Albert Bryan Jr. Williams was tapped by Governor Albert Bryan Jr.