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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

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.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Top 10 BCM Resources All that being said, here are my top 10 resources to help you become a ninja-level BCM practitioner: 1. Prepare My Business for an Emergency. State, county, and city Emergency Management offices. Another excellent DHS website.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. WATCH NOW: ENTERPRISE RESILIENCE DURING A SEVERE WEATHER CRISIS. As you audit your emergency plans, you are likely to have identified areas for improvement.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Arbitrary rule is, of course, nothing new, but what is new is the role of networked electronic communication. The tendency in research and policy advice is to assume that everyone in power has a strong desire to reduce hazards and threats.