The plan should be considered a living document, reviewed and updated on a regular basis as the emergency team sees fit. Disaster. The word conjures concerns about school shootings, hurricanes, ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

University Organizational Resilience – Northern Command offers a wide range of emergency preparedness trainings and exercises designed to strengthen readiness at all levels of the institution. Our ...

When it comes to disaster response and recovery operations, it is crucial that workers are prepared before there is an emergency, according to Rutgers researchers. Their study, published in New ...

Employee evacuation and safety training is serious business. Training is required for a company to be compliant with OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) standards. It instructs ...

When a small farm warehouse caught fire in West, Texas, in 2013, members of a volunteer fire department rushed to the scene. Unknown to them, the store held more than 40 metric tons of highly ...

According to ISO 27031 Section 7.5, “A coordinated program should be implemented to ensure that processes are in place to regularly promote ICT DR awareness in general, as well as assess and enhance ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to ...

I began writing this column the day after Hurricane Sandy flooded the northeast coast of America. Her effects actually reached to the Mississippi River and far into Canada. The devastation at New York ...

It’s a scene of utter devastation. Smashed automobiles, derailed train cars and piles of rubble are scattered across an apocalyptic landscape. Hard-hatted responders cling to nylon ropes alongside a ...

CORRECTIONVILLE, Iowa (KTIV) - Wednesday night, Woodbury County Emergency Management’s best prepared for the worst during disaster survival training in Correctionville, Iowa. There, people had the ...

Last fall, Delaware experienced a record-breaking drought. October 2024 was the driest month in a century, with no measurable rainfall during a 42-day dry spell. With extreme heat and drought risks on ...