Fri.Oct 21, 2022

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses." Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to

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Security Industry Association Names Kasia Hanson as 2022 SIA Progress Award Honoree

Security Industry Association

Hanson will be recognized for her leadership, allyship and mentorship in advancing women while fostering diversity, inclusion, equity, innovation and leadership in the security industry at the 2022 SIA Honors Night. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Kasia Hanson, global director – video, safety and security – Network and Edge Group at Intel Corporation, as the 2022 recipient of the SIA Progress Award , an honor presented by SIA’s Women in Security Forum (WISF

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FEMA Training Course on Recovery

Recovery Diva

Course E0210: Recovery from Disaster: The Local Community Roles, will be available at FEMA’s Training Academy in December.

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What are the code requirements for haunted house attractions?

National Fire Protection Association

A version of this blog written by Kristin Bigda, publications strategy director at NFPA, first appeared in 2016. The article has been edited to reflect more recent code editions. With Halloween quickly approaching, thoughts of candy, ghosts, and haunted houses are surely on your mind. While haunted houses may be an entertaining way to spend an October evening, there can be devastating consequences if a fire were to break out and proper protections aren’t in place.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Parallels Between Ukraine and the Spanish Civil War

Disaster Zone

Trying out new weapons systems.

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Putin's Gambits, Xi Jinping, Machine Learning: RAND Weekly Recap

The Rand Blog

This weekly recap focuses on Putin's latest “desperate measures” in Ukraine, support for Xi Jinping, whether machine-learning tools can tell if you're lying, and more.

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