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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 duties, with the risk about 10 to 100 times greater than the risk of dying from non-emergency duties...
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...
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...
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...
To See or Not to See?
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Feb. 23 unveiled a test of backscatter screening technology at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (PHX). This...
GAO Rips OSHA Emergency Response Planning
According to the report Disaster Preparedness: Better Planning Would Improve OSHAs Efforts to Protect Workers Safety and Health in Disasters OSHA's efforts...
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...
Detecting Unseen Threats in First Response
First responders in any scenario are dealing with a variety of unseen threats. Chemicals, vapors, gases and radiation all are unseen threats that can...
Lieberman Proposes $3.4 Billion More than Administration for FY 2008 Homeland Budget
In a letter to Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-S.D., and Ranking Member Judd Gregg, R-N.H., Lieberman said the administrations budget once again...
Chemistry Council: Congress Must Not Delay Chemical Security Regulations
According to American Chemistry Council (ACC) President and CEO Jack N. Gerard, his group led the charge for federal chemical security legislation, and...
Senate Committee Adds $731 Million for First Responders to Budget Resolution
The cost of these new investments would be completely offset by an across-the-board budget cut to non-defense administrative accounts, thereby adding...
Chertoff: Inspecting All Cargo Would 'Destroy' Ports
We have to, in fact, use a risk-managed approach and a layered approach and a cost-beneficial approach to triage and select those elements of the container...
Governors Release Homeland Security Guide
The guide contains practical advice for governors on how to organize their states to prepare for and respond to hazards of all kinds effectively. It shares...
DHS Awards High-Tech Research Contracts to 22 Small Businesses
A total of 23 projects will be funded through the departments Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program with individual firms receiving up to...
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