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Five Top Sessions for Security & Public Safety Practitioners at ISC East

Security Industry Association

14-16 in New York City, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC East recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC East program , including keynote presentations from top luminaries and over 40 sessions from top industry expert speakers on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments.

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

However, over the past two years, the program has evolved to include streams like Disaster Risk Reduction – Climate Adaptation , which encourages a long-term perspective on emergency management project implementation and has included amounts higher than previous funding streams. The team at CCEM can help.

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SIA New Member Profile: Paratus Consultants Group

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Paratus Consultants Group is a full-service safety and security, risk reduction, mitigation and emergency preparedness consulting firm. This helps to reduce the overall risk for the client. I will be presenting at ISC West 2024 through InfraGard.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). At present rates it will take centuries to complete the rebuilding, but there is little chance that more funds can be generated and the local economy is one of the most depressed in Europe.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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COVID, Meet Cognitive Bias. CB, Meet COVID. You Two Have Much to Talk About!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

The easiest one to understand is the Gambler’s Fallacy – the belief that if the roulette wheel throws five reds then black is ‘due’ It’s not – past events don’t impact present probability – yet casinos get rich. Let’s get to Managing this Risk!

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. Security’ involves protection against major threats, such as terrorist activity. Volunteer work should be encouraged in disaster risk reduction and kindred fields. The citizen 4.1