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, ...

To build capacity in green disaster risk management and response, WWF-Pacific staff and partners, recently underwent a three day ‘Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit’(GRRT) training in Suva. To ...

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 ...

Of course, non-healthcare industries don't usually conduct in-service training. But you can form a schedule with management and the human resources department to create employee training schedules.

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Community Governments’ Directorate of Disaster and Emergency (BDDE), in partnership with Plan International ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- One hurricane in the past, and one in the near future is exhausting the resources of the of one charitable organization, which is hoping to get some more volunteers. The Salvation ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of Taiwanese who have completed certified disaster prevention specialist training is expected to hit 110,000 this year, exceeding a target of 100,000, the Ministry of the Interior said in a ...