Union: Chemical Facility Rule Falls Short
On April 2, DHS released an interim final rule that imposes comprehensive federal security regulations for high-risk chemical facilities. USW asserts...
Rule Sets Anti-Terrorism Standards for Chemical Facilities
The department sought and reviewed comments from state and local partners, Congress, private industry and the public to develop consistent guidelines...
Floridian Emergency Responders Urge Pandemic Flu Preparedness
The Coalition to Prepare Florida Now, composed of the Professional Firefighters of Florida, the Florida College of Emergency Physicians, infectious disease...
FDIC: Nation's Firefighters Move to Phase II in To Hell and Back Program
To Hell and Back II: Firefighter Situational Awareness uses advanced 3-D graphics to tell the story of what went wrong in fireground operations when firefighters...
CEO Addresses Importance of Pandemic and Business Continuity Plans
While California businesses are all too familiar with preparing for potential disasters such as earthquakes, Abercrombie noted, local businesses need...
Officials Get First Look at Mobile Evacuation Bus
Government officials, using federal grants from the Department of Homeland Security's Urban Area Security Initiative, already have ordered seven of the...
Radiation Detection Testing Underway at Two Foreign Sea Ports
The tests represent the initial phase of the Secure Freight Initiative announced Dec. 7, 2006, which involves the deployment of nuclear detection devices...
FDIC: Road Rescue Introduces New Ambulance Concept
The current configuration of most ambulances makes it difficult for technicians to safely perform life-saving functions on their patients while remaining...
FDIC: MSA Unveils Next-Generation Breathing Apparatus in Indianapolis
Most notable among the new NFPA requirements is a stipulation that Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS) - an SCBA component that sounds a loud, piercing...
College Shooting Shows U.S. Schools Still Vulnerable
NCPC recommends that all higher education campuses continually update and rehearse emergency plans and emphasize a campus community-wide crime prevention...
Trauma Researcher Offers Tips on Preventing Tragedies Like Virginia Tech
Goff, interim assistant dean of K-State's College of Human Ecology and associate professor of family studies and human services, leads the Trauma Research,...
Emergency Text Messaging Service Available Free to Universities Nationwide
Mobile Campus allows administrators and other qualified and approved groups on campus to send group SMS (Short Message Service) messages via the one device...
Containing Spilled Liquids
Watching a spill spread kicks most people into high gear as everyone scrambles for supplies to get the mess cleaned up. Preparing spill response plans...
CSB: Lack of Emergency Plan Worsened Blast
According to CSB, the June 14, 2006, explosion occurred when hazardous vapors generated by overheating a flammable liquid in an open-top tank ignited....
Architect of Capitol Pulls Workers From Tunnels
The workers were transferred after U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., received information from occupational and environmental health physician Dr. Michael...
New Online Toolkit for Medical Responses to Radiation Emergencies
The new information package, designed primarily for physicians, includes easy-to-follow procedures for diagnosis and management of radiation contamination...
Improving Public Safety Communications
The move to digital technology, which has prompted the federal government to make plans to transfer premium spectrum 24 megahertz (MHz) from analog TV...
The Growing Cost of Homeland Security
The authors indicate that while both the public sector and the private sector have boosted their security expenditures, the increase has been very modest...
DHS Provides More Than $490 Million To Firefighters
The start of the fiscal year 2007 application period for the grants, announced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week, ends May 4. Applications...
Disaster Preparedness Training Saved Lives in Indonesia
The UN Technical Working Group, in conjunction with the National Coordinating Board for the Management of Disaster (BAKORNAS PB), carried out contingency...
Firefighters: Emergency Responses Raise Risk of Dying on Duty From Heart Disease
The landmark study by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) provides the strongest link to date between CHD and emergency firefighting...
Pandemic Flu Studies: Timing is Everything
According to the studies, cities where public health officials imposed multiple social containment measures within a few days after the first local cases...
State and Local Disaster Plans Aren't Making the Grade
By Sandy Smith, with additional reporting by Leslie Drahos Five years after the Sept. 11 and anthrax tragedies, adequate emergency preparedness at all...
Improving Communication Five Cities at a Time
Experts agree that interoperability the ability of different responders at local, state, regional and federal levels to communicate with each other remains...
Fit for Duty, Fit for Life
Smoke inhalation, burns, hazardous material exposure, falls. These well-known perils routinely take center stage in media reports of firefighter injuries...
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