Fire/Emergency Response Communications
Mass Notification Systems: A Useful Tool during Pandemic Response
The recent H1N1 flu pandemic clearly demonstrates why health facility administrators must prepare their responses to large-scale public health emergencies using every tool available. There is much at stake...
GHS: What You Need to Know
On Sept. 30, acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jordan Barab announced a proposed rule to align OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (hazcom standard) with provisions of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)...
Emergency Managers Join Emergency Preparedness Drills Scheduled for Sept. 11
The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) USA Council will participate in emergency communication drills and shelter in place drills on Sept. 11 as part of a national campaign encouraging organizations to rehearse what they would do during a natural disaster or other form of emergency...
Start Talking
Why public safety agencies must tap technology to bridge gaps and strengthen communications for ideal incident response...
Speed, Social Media and Crisis Communication
Organizations communicating health and safety information during a crisis need to respond quickly and in common terms when communicating to the public, otherwise audiences will seek information elsewhere...
AIHce: Communicating Risk and Effective Crisis Communications
Session speaker Pam Ferrante, CSP, CHMM, discussed key elements of effective crisis and risk communication at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) ...
New Program Evaluates Labs for Emergency Communications Tests
To help ensure that first responders, public safety officers and military personnel can always talk with each other no matter what communications equipment they are using, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have teamed up to create a program to help ensure the interoperability of communications equipment....
DHS Announces $34 Million in Emergency Operations Center Grants
On Dec. 16, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) opened the application period for approximately $34 million under the FY 2009 Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) Grant Program. These grants are intended to improve state, local and tribal emergency management and preparedness capabilities by supporting flexible, sustainable, secure and interoperable Emergency Operations Centers....
The Ready Campaign Encourages Americans to Resolve to Be Ready in 2009
With the new year approaching, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Ready Campaign reminds Americans to Resolve to be Ready in 2009. Resolve to be Ready is a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in the new year....
Homeland Security and Defense Business Council Releases Brief on SAFETY Act
On Oct. 28, the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council released "Why Robust Use of the SAFETY Act is Critical to Homeland Security & How to Get There,” the first white paper in a series of executive briefs for companies working in the homeland security industry. ...
OSHA, AIHA Renew Alliance
Employers and employees will receive valuable workplace safety and health information and training resources on general industry, construction and emergency response issues through a renewed alliance signed Oct. 27 between OSHA and the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)....
Nearly Half of U.S. States Fail on Emergency Plan Communication
Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of U.S. states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not provide it readily to the public, reveals a new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Carl Botan....
Off-the-Job Safety: Majority of Families Do Not Have Emergency Communications Plan
Only 30 percent of families recently surveyed by the Home Safety Council have created and discussed an emergency communications plan. That is a cause...
DHS Scorecard Shows Progress, Gaps in Communications
DHS developed a scorecard to assess the progress that 75 urban and metropolitan areas have made in their tactical interoperable communications capabilities....
