Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The 2019 report is accompanied by an executive summary called GAR Distilled. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017.
National Fire Protection Association
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
On a much larger scale, in May 2019, a chemical explosion occurred at a facility in Waukegan, Illinois, causing multiple deaths, injuries, and damage to multiple buildings. For example, many chemicals form strong acids or bases when mixed with water, thus introducing a chemical burn hazard.
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National Fire Protection Association
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.
National Fire Protection Association
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
I replied that, as there are more than 80 dedicated journals in the disasters, risks and hazards fields, and more than 500 others that occasionally publish papers on such themes, no such need existed. The reason for mentioning this example is part of my response to an article that appeared in Times Higher Education (THE 2019).
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