Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

Emergency planning excluded emergency planners and was put in the hands of a consortium of medical doctors and politicians, yet half the battle in a pandemic is to manage the logistical, social and economic consequences. Despite the obvious need for mitigation, emergency response capability cannot be neglected.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Risk Reduction 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 31, 2021

Governments have not woken up to the fact that it is now a significantly more intense phenomenon than it was in previous decades. Typically, planning for disaster is a conservative process - if it exists at all (its value is consistently underrated and its functions are consistently misunderstood). They will continue to do so.

Risk Reduction 171

Risk Reduction Government Vulnerability Emergency Planning 171

everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). The odds are being stacked against us when we fail to act on science and early warnings to invest in prevention, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.”. million lives, affecting 4.2

Resilience 142

Resilience Risk Reduction Management Command Center 142

Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

National elections in the United Kingdom are likely to bring a change in the political complexion of the government. One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”.

All-Hazards 100

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 100

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts.

Natural Hazard 130

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Automotive Risk Reduction 130

National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

NFPA has a wealth of information to help guide building owners and facility managers, first responders, health care facility managers, electrical professionals, and public educators, as they prepare ahead of weather events in their area and work closely with communities to develop emergency plans.

All-Hazards 105

All-Hazards Hazard Emergency Planning Pandemic 105