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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

APRIL 12, 2023

This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.

Disaster Recovery

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Fire Safety for Electric Vehicles and Other Modern Vehicles in Parking Structures

National Fire Protection Association

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To give us some perspective about the size of this issue, it is estimated that there are around 16 million electric cars on the road worldwide, and studies have identified nearly 300 EV fires globally between 2010 and 2022. The effect is a 33 percent increase in the design density, moving from 0.15 gpm/ft2 to 0.2

All-Hazards

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

National Fire Protection Association

JULY 26, 2023

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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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. 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. Field 2018). Swartz and B. Krausmann, E.,

Risk Reduction

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A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Part I – Comparing Four Decades of Electrical Injuries and Fatalities

National Fire Protection Association

MAY 8, 2023

Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) database has been used for 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. It is encouraging that progress has been made in all causes of workplace fatalities, but how is protecting employees from electrical hazards working out? The 2024 edition of the standard is due out next month.

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Emergency Management for Major Events

CCEM Strategies

JUNE 13, 2023

This involves identifying potential hazards, such as natural disasters, civil unrest, terrorism threats, and public health emergencies that could impact the event. Integrated Operational Response Many Vancouverites will remember the Olympic Operational Command Centre (OCC) during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Management

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. In putting individuals at the centre of a diagram of actions we see people either crushed between the rock of hazards and the hard place of risk-informed sustainable development or as protagonists in combatting the former with the latter.

Risk Reduction

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Risky Business: Is Looking at Likelihood a Waste of Time?

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2019

In the 2010 and 2013 GPGs we looked at threat assessments, whereas in the more recent 2018 GPG, we cover a threat and risk assessment. Your building could be state of the art, brand new and with lots of features in place to prevent a fire, or it could be old, rickety, with poor wiring and a fire hazard just waiting to happen.

All-Hazards

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Risky Business: Is Looking at Likelihood a Waste of Time?

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2019

In the 2010 and 2013 GPGs we looked at threat assessments, whereas in the more recent 2018 GPG, we cover a threat and risk assessment. Your building could be state of the art, brand new and with lots of features in place to prevent a fire, or it could be old, rickety, with poor wiring and a fire hazard just waiting to happen.

All-Hazards

All-Hazards Activation Business Continuity Hazard

Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Earthquakes – Probably the most well-known is the earthquake which hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, affecting 3 million people and killing an estimated 100,000 to 160,000. It also caused damage to 250,000 houses and 300,000 commercial premises.

Business Continuity

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Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Earthquakes – Probably the most well-known is the earthquake which hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, affecting 3 million people and killing an estimated 100,000 to 160,000. It also caused damage to 250,000 houses and 300,000 commercial premises.

Business Continuity

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Drones & Airports

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2019

I also think the first response to a new hazard is usually overcautious. When the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in April 2010, 20 countries closed their airspace due to the ash cloud, as it was known there was a risk that ingestion of ash into airplane engines can shut down the engine.

Airlines

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Drones & Airports

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2019

I also think the first response to a new hazard is usually overcautious. When the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in April 2010, 20 countries closed their airspace due to the ash cloud, as it was known there was a risk that ingestion of ash into airplane engines can shut down the engine.

Airlines

Airlines All-Hazards Mitigation Hazard

Emergency Alert Systems Both Then and Now

Alert Media

DECEMBER 20, 2016

According to FEMA, “The EAS test plays a key role in ensuring our nation is prepared for all hazards and people within its borders are able to receive critical and vital information, should it ever be needed.”. In essence, it ensures the President can address the nation quickly with real-time information.

Alert

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010). Socialist (25 November 2010), p.

Risk Reduction

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all.

Vulnerability

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). The tendency in research and policy advice is to assume that everyone in power has a strong desire to reduce hazards and threats. Early views of the Internet and disasters (e.g. References Alexander, D.E.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Fire Safety for Electric Vehicles and Other Modern Vehicles in Parking Structures

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

Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

A Better Understanding of NFPA 70E: Part I – Comparing Four Decades of Electrical Injuries and Fatalities

Emergency Management for Major Events

The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Risky Business: Is Looking at Likelihood a Waste of Time?

Risky Business: Is Looking at Likelihood a Waste of Time?

Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Drones & Airports

Drones & Airports

Emergency Alert Systems Both Then and Now

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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