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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

While the warmer months of the year signal a time when we can indulge in vacations, beach days, and outdoor activities, the summer and fall are also when hurricanes, thunderstorms, wildfires, and other potential natural disasters make their impressive mark across many areas of the United States, often disrupting the rhythm of our daily lives.

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Surveillance and Beyond: How Autonomous Indoor Drones Address Security and Operational Challenges

Security Industry Association

Warehouses and Logistics In the complex and expansive environment of logistics and warehousing, indoor drones have become essential assets, navigating through aisles and over obstacles with precision. These drones navigate areas where traditional cameras cannot be installed, due to privacy concerns.

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Coordinating Emergency Response and Business Continuity in Manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

These plans might not always be referred to as emergency response plans; they could be called incident response plans, major incident response plans, or hazard plans. Many manufacturing sites have hazardous materials on-site, which, in the event of an incident, could impact their staff or even the local community. Casualty Management.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

While the warmer months of the year signal a time when we can indulge in vacations, beach days, and outdoor activities, the summer and fall are also when hurricanes, thunderstorms, wildfires, and other potential natural disasters make their impressive mark across many areas of the United States, often disrupting the rhythm of our daily lives.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Although the virological, medical and epidemiological problems are obviously very complex, medical scientists - and politicians - should not be making risk management and logistical decisions if they do not have the expertise. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Whereas it is not possible to stop earthquakes, it is possible to construct anti-seismic buildings and to organize human activities in such a way as to minimize the risk of death. Activism is much more common than fatalism (this is the so-called "therapeutic community"). Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

An impacts-oriented all-hazards approach will be worthwhile planning going forward (as it has been in the past). There will have been two camps in all this – those that had a Business Continuity plan and activated it, and those that didn’t have one, but had to make something up on the hoof which worked.

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