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New Quadrennial Review

Recovery Diva

The Department of Homeland Security has released the Third Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR), a continuation of the first two QHSR Reports issued in 2010 and 2014. Third Quadrennial Homeland Security Review.

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FEMA is Running Out of Money

Recovery Diva

Criswell said that in 2010, FEMA had 108 declared disasters to support. A decade later, the number jumped to 315. “Our mission has not changed, but our operating environment has,” she said. “And with that, comes the challenge of ensuring that everyone who qualifies for FEMA assistance is able to access that help.”

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

2010) showed that in Colombia the combined effect of 20,000 small destructive events was much greater than the socio-economic impact of five large disasters. Herbane 2010. Barbat 2010. Guidotti (eds) 2010. It should be noted that sub-fields of disaster studies may require their own classifications. Field 2018).

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Making work more accessible for employees with disabilities

Citrix

He started at Citrix in 2010 via the Leadership Development … The post Making work more accessible for employees with disabilities first appeared on Citrix Blogs. As a Senior Enterprise Architect on the Customer Success team, Dan Morgan works with our largest customers in the U.S.

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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Part III - The Electrical Components Causing Fatalities in the Workplace.

National Fire Protection Association

There was a sudden drop in these fatalities in 2010 after several decades of being flat at an average of 24% of all electrical fatalities. Investigating what occurred in the workplace prior to 2010 could provide employers with the knowledge necessary to further decrease these fatalities. Building wiring fatalities average 21 per year.

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Experts Weigh In on How to Solve Healthcare IT Growing Pains

Pure Storage

If “data is the new oil” was the writing on the wall for IT-based growth opportunities back in 2010, then healthcare has been perhaps the most forward-looking vertical of them all. Experts Weigh In on How to Solve Healthcare IT Growing Pains by Pure Storage Blog Few industries have evolved as rapidly as healthcare.

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Internally displaced persons still struggling five years after Pakistan floods 

Crisis Response Journal

In this regular blog, researched and commissioned by CRJ’s Pakistan correspondent Luavut Zahid, freelance environmental writer Amar Guriro describes the continued plight of former agricultural workers displaced by Pakistan’s ‘Super Flood’ of 2010. By Luavut Zahid

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