National Fire Protection Association

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you want to make your state a safer place through community risk reduction (CRR) but struggle with the time and resources to take a new community risk assessment (CRA) project, CRAIG 1300 is the cutting-edge tool to help you do it. Community Risk Reduction (CRR) Through Community Risk Assessment (CRA).

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Unfortunately, searching for such information is very much like looking for a needle in a haystack. Two years ago, the journal published its first issue to contain 100 papers.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These are the most complex and challenging, whether caused by climate change, biological hazards, critical infrastructure failure, cyber-attacks, or nuclear threats. Together, we will protect our lands and save more lives ,” said Lynda Zambrano, Executive Director and Founder of the National Tribal Emergency Management Council.

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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.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This process goes beyond a one-time analysis and involves evergreen monitoring of emerging risks and changes in the hazard landscape. Leaders can also advocate for the development of regulations that incentivize risk reduction measures and require organizations to integrate resilience into their operations.

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everbridge

MARCH 6, 2023

The current systems and solutions in place for managing climate hazards are often inadequate, and the reliance on traditional insurance has become insufficient. As a result, a fully integrated and holistic approach to critical event management is crucial to unlocking climate resilience and business continuity when faced with climate hazards.

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Reciprocity

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ISO 27001 family, published by the International Organization for Standardization, includes a set of standards for information security. Deciphering the various numbers can be confusing at first, but each standard is numbered and deals with a specific facet of managing your company’s information security risk management efforts.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MARCH 27, 2025

This uncertainty increases with longer lead times, presenting local authorities with a trade off: more time for preparedness and mitigation measures but less certainty in the hazard prediction and potential impact. the exposure and thus risk). If forecasts, for example, are not effectively translated to warnings, the chain will break.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." The devastation to the bidonvilles of Port-au-Prince in the 2010 earthquake was one factor that sparked a new interest in the the effect of disasters on informal settlements.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Reality: People make decisions on the basis of the information that they are able to obtain and their ability to interpret it. Reality: There is a pervasive tendency for the media to exaggerate and distort disaster-related information. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. This is antithetical to panic.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

Perhaps this goes some way to explaining the common failure of risk estimation and the tendency willingly to take unnecessary risks. However, an understanding of risk requires, not only an ability to think things through, but also enough information with which to make informed decisions. Alexander, D.E.

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