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, ...

Those hoping to lend a helping hand in their community the next time a disaster strikes can now be fully prepared thanks to a ...

With an increasing number of emergency incidents occurring on campuses across the country, response training has never been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...