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The real burden of risk

Emergency Planning

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA In 1966 the eminent Californian risk analyst Chauncey Starr published a seminal paper in Science Magazine in which he stated that "a thing is safe if its risks are judged to be acceptable." A piece of the Sanriku coast at Minamisanriku, NE Japan. In 2011 there was a 20.5-metre metre tsunami here.

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Automate Major Incident Management Step-by-Step for Better, Faster Response by Hannah Culver

PagerDuty

Some of these include: Reducing incident volume: If a responder does need to jump on an issue, it can be annoying and disruptive to be alerted multiple times for the same problem. Status update templates: Use GenAI to craft updates and automatically publish them to key internal stakeholders based on pre-assembled groups.

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Peer-Benchmarked Threat Resilience Metrics

FS-ISAC

Organizations that adopt it can trend their progress over time vs the financial services industry average benchmark value that SRA publishes quarterly. Instead, Security Risk Advisors publishes the free VECTR.io For example, a credential access test on a server that is “blocked” but not “alerted”.

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Peer-Benchmarked Threat Resiliency Metrics

FS-ISAC

Organizations that adopt it can trend their progress over time vs the financial services industry average benchmark value that SRA publishes quarterly. Instead, Security Risk Advisors publishes the free VECTR.io For example, a credential access test on a server that is “blocked” but not “alerted”.

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Update: Second Draft of NFPA 1970 Is Posted and Available for Submissions of NITMAM Through November 1, 2023

National Fire Protection Association

These motions are attempts to amend the Committee’s recommended text published in the Second Draft. The second draft is now available for submission of NITMAMs through November 1, 2023. A NITMAM is a proposed amending motion for NFPA Membership consideration and debate at the NFPA Technical Meeting.

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Experts Warn of Electric Vehicle Fires After Hurricane Ian Damages Lithium-Ion Batteries

National Fire Protection Association

RELATED: Read more about stranded energy and thermal runaway in an NFPA Journal feature story published in 2020 Because of these risks, Hutchison and other experts have recommended that Florida first responders and the public “remain on high alert” for fires involving damaged EVs in the wake of Ian.

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Why Women in the Fire Service Need Better-Fitting Gear

National Fire Protection Association

In an interview published by NFPA Journal® in 2021, Dr. Meredith McQuerry, a Florida State University professor and expert in clothing comfort physiology, said female firefighters have a 33 percent higher risk of on-duty injury than their male counterparts.

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